Damn, that was a costly “feature” of Intel for you. But feeling good about a server and have everything running is worth something.
Welcome to the club 
Got this board myself…has been powering my trusty homeserver for 3 years now. Board isn’t without quirks and can be very moody with memory, but great board all things considered. Hit me up if you need tech support, I changed quite a bit during the years and I used all slots in basically all configurations by now.
And we have a megathread here at L1T dealing with exactly that board.