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Ok. It all started with a mutual friend of the family who asked me what type of desktop he should buy for his daughter to go off to college. I explained a few simple (do's and don'ts) to him and he went out looking for a PC. A few days later he called me to ask me which of the desktops would be the best bargin. All of them were garbage. Either the came with crappy CPU'S or 256MB ram and endless other negatives.
So I asked him to give me a budget and I would buy the parts and build him a Desktop that would be less then what he found and be futureproof. He agreed and gave me $1200.00. Then I purchased the parts from newegg.com - I won't go into all the specs of that PC, but if you try to configure the same desktop from say, (DELL) it would cost you at least $1500 to $1800. The final total was $1,134.00 with S&H.
I built the desktop, got it all setup with the OS and other software that he wanted and packaged it up and his daughter brought it off to college. About a week later he calls me back. A friend of his daughters parents are interested in me building them a PC too. Which I did and charged them $199.00 to build and install and an additional $99 for a year of tech support. The only calls that i've got from either of them is basic (spyware - adware - firewall questions) Just from the word of mouth from those two builds i've started a small side business, building people affordable PC's that will rival any major PC company.
With the proper advertising and the help of word of mouth, i'm building about 10 PC's a month. So far i haven't run into any customer problems and everyone is extremely happy with my builds.
What i'd like to ask all of you great users of this forum is this:
Give me 5 types of components and (manufacturer) that you have had experience with and found to be reliable. This will help me in my future builds.
1.) CPU
2.) MOBO
3.) RAM
4.) Disk Drives
5.) Hard Drives
Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks
So I asked him to give me a budget and I would buy the parts and build him a Desktop that would be less then what he found and be futureproof. He agreed and gave me $1200.00. Then I purchased the parts from newegg.com - I won't go into all the specs of that PC, but if you try to configure the same desktop from say, (DELL) it would cost you at least $1500 to $1800. The final total was $1,134.00 with S&H.
I built the desktop, got it all setup with the OS and other software that he wanted and packaged it up and his daughter brought it off to college. About a week later he calls me back. A friend of his daughters parents are interested in me building them a PC too. Which I did and charged them $199.00 to build and install and an additional $99 for a year of tech support. The only calls that i've got from either of them is basic (spyware - adware - firewall questions) Just from the word of mouth from those two builds i've started a small side business, building people affordable PC's that will rival any major PC company.
With the proper advertising and the help of word of mouth, i'm building about 10 PC's a month. So far i haven't run into any customer problems and everyone is extremely happy with my builds.
What i'd like to ask all of you great users of this forum is this:
Give me 5 types of components and (manufacturer) that you have had experience with and found to be reliable. This will help me in my future builds.
1.) CPU
2.) MOBO
3.) RAM
4.) Disk Drives
5.) Hard Drives
Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks