Neat. I also have built my own system from scratch., so I don't think it's crazy at all. Where I get stuck is figuring out new challenges to throw at the syste

Neat. I also have built my own system from scratch., so I don't think it's crazy at all. Where I get stuck is figuring out new challenges to throw at the system. I find it funny that there is lots of discussion here about performance and tuning, and not so much about practice applications and valuable problems to solve.