It's mostly for everyday use and as a media PC for our living room - I have a 2tb drive chock full of music and movies and anime and now a 4tb drive that says yohoho at me to be filled. I do game occasionally but am much more into retro type games than hyper realistic ones so my GPU needs are low.

Stripping everything out and rebuilding is the fun part! Well, on atx boards at least... This last one was my first mini-itx and my sausage fingers definitely got in the way a few times. You're going to do great, though, especially with them helping to guide you and troubleshoot

And same to you!