I am in the process of designing a custom computer for work. I've been leaning towards building a system with 4 physical processors in it, However no windows versions except for the server releases support more than 2 physical processors.
Say I built a rig with 4x Hex-core Intel Xeons, 512 GB of RAM, and installed Windows Server 2012 onto the system. Could I use it as I would regular Windows 8? I would not be using this system as a server, but rather a Graphics and Video Editing workstation- I would be running software such as Cinema4D, Photoshop, Davinci Resolve, Premiere, VRay, etc. Would such software be able to operate properly on a server OS with this many physical processors?