In case anyone is interested I thought I would share. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-Talos-2-Lite https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/
They're really making strides for making high performance owner controlled, open source firmware systems very affordable - now they are much less than a proprietary single socket x86 system of equivilant performance. The regular dual socket TALOS 2 is already a good price for server hardware in its class but this is even better for those who don't need dual socket or many PCI-e slots (although you can always use a PCI-e PLX switch based expansion system if you later want more) I find it simply incredible that a brand new open source firmware OpenPOWER9 system now costs less than the last and best open source firmware owner controlled x86 motherboards (KCMA-D8 and KGPE-D16) where even buying used CPU's you would be spending more money than this to get worse performance.
