I'm getting ready to try putting up some flyers for computer building through the area I'm living to try and make some money, as it's a college area so there's plenty of people that want computers. I'm guessing most people are going to want to do some gaming, and that's about it. Can anyone think of a build that would be reasonable after labor costs are added to it for my cut along with being common enough that I wouldn't have problems finding all the parts through one vendor without dealing with them selling out, especially if I'm making multiple builds?
Do your research! Find the cheapest suppliers you can, which unless you order in bulk you wont make much of a profit. To be honest you won't make a huge amount of money just from building pcs. People will either do it theirself or buy pre built from a shop.
I've done a few bulbs for friends. But I just charged £20 to put it together for them. They paid the cost of all the parts and some of them ordered the parts and had them delivered to me.
Give it a go. I'm not knocking you but done expect it to become a multi million company.
If you get enough orders at once take a look at an actual distributor like MALabs or Leadertech or D&H
[QUOTE=Meekal;45657011]Do your research! Find the cheapest suppliers you can, which unless you order in bulk you wont make much of a profit. To be honest you won't make a huge amount of money just from building pcs. People will either do it theirself or buy pre built from a shop.
I've done a few bulbs for friends. But I just charged £20 to put it together for them. They paid the cost of all the parts and some of them ordered the parts and had them delivered to me.
Give it a go. I'm not knocking you but done expect it to become a multi million company.[/QUOTE]
That's about how much I expected to get per computer, most of the money would come from doing virus removals etc
People don't really look at CPU speed and how many cores there are, mostly it's just RAM, HDD, what version of windows and if it can burn DVDs.
I found this out with selling refurb'd machines.
However those that think they are smart but not really smart do look at just clock speeds and sometimes cores, so go with Piledriver CPUs. They cost you less and the kind of people who would buy a custom PC but not build their own will usually like the high clock speed and core count.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;45686194]However those that think they are smart but not really smart do look at just clock speeds and sometimes cores, so go with Piledriver CPUs. They cost you less and the kind of people who would buy a custom PC but not build their own will usually like the high clock speed and core count.[/QUOTE]
You would look for the number of cores + logical cores, number of threads, compatible chipset + grid array/socket, power consumption + heat output, cpu code name + product line, clock speed + clock speed capability.
I think...
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