(This is actually my second one, the other one had a condenser explosion, magic smoke, the works and was replaced under warranty)
Note, as I read elsewhere. if you have UEFI boot turned on, your USB keyboard will not work if you want to configure intel raid.
It also does not work when the CD gives you the "press any key to boot from CD/DVD/GOAT..."
Turning off UEFI will allow you to hit ctrl-I and get to the raid setup.
Then, it you have some of the virtualisation stuff turned on, your dvd stops at the end of "windows is loading flies" and that is it.
Purely for entertainment value, I am installws w2k8 r2 on it. Seems fine so far.