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Just wanted to say how excited I am about the first computer that I built. I built it for my father's secretary to use (their previous computer was a PII 266 mhz on Win95). He told me to keep it cheap but make it reliable. I ended up going with an ASUS mobo (can't remember which one, i think it was around 70 dollars, and has 6 PCI slots), an AMD XP 2200+ Athlon, single stick of 512 mb of ram, an Asus GeForce2 64 mb video card (awesome card for the money, im very impressed), 40 GB HD, all wrapped up inside of an Antec Soultion series case with a 350W power supply. It started up the first time I pushed the magic button. I had the H.D.D. LCD wire hooked up wrong, so the HD light didn't blink, but that was the only problem!
Now I've been bitten by the bug! I really wanna build an other one. I barely charged their office above the cost of parts for the thing, so financially it wouldn't be a good idea for me to blow a bunch of money on a new computer (i'm very happy with my current one). I'm not really sure where I'm going with this.. I guess I'm going to ask a question now though. How many of you guys build computers for a job? I'd love to do it on the side to earn some extra money. Also, how much do you guys charge? Do you do it hourly? Or do you just do just add on a percentage above what you paid for the parts? Man I had such a blast building this thing, I can't wait to build an other one!
Now I've been bitten by the bug! I really wanna build an other one. I barely charged their office above the cost of parts for the thing, so financially it wouldn't be a good idea for me to blow a bunch of money on a new computer (i'm very happy with my current one). I'm not really sure where I'm going with this.. I guess I'm going to ask a question now though. How many of you guys build computers for a job? I'd love to do it on the side to earn some extra money. Also, how much do you guys charge? Do you do it hourly? Or do you just do just add on a percentage above what you paid for the parts? Man I had such a blast building this thing, I can't wait to build an other one!