Thanks for the response. I'm not that interested in picking my own components and place much more value on convenience and support. Hard to place a precise valu

Thanks for the response. I'm not that interested in picking my own components and place much more value on convenience and support. Hard to place a precise value on my time here, but I figure if a custom build gets me 1.5x or 2x more performance/dollar for general workloads (I'm guessing those numbers are achievable if I did benchmarking for very specific workloads), then it's worth my time to do some deeper research... any estimate of what the value add of going custom is?