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Originally posted by Voldemort
You do know that they buy in thousands with giant capitals?

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Exactly.


You wouldn't really make a profit, unless you brought loads of parts in bulk.. There is a shop up the road from me and they can get Core 2 Duo's about £50 cheaper than retail when they buy in bulk.

I do a similar thing to what you want to do, but i dont charge. I just get what the person wants and i put it together and they give the money for the parts. But most people give me about £20 for doing it anyway.

It all started when someone asked if i had an old computer and i said no, and I said could i get them a cheap one, so i built one for them and they told people in my pub.. now i have random people asking me to build a computer for them. I even set up a whole office for my dad's friend and got £150 for it..

I'm not sure I know what you're saying, ptoye, but if you were to sell prebuilt computers by buying from Dell or HP etc., there would most likely be laws against that and you could get in trouble. So I suggest you buy individual parts and build the computer(s) from scratch. You really don't need tutorials to build computers, usually every motherboard comes with one included in the instruction manual.

About PSU's: just buy a suitable case that has one with the right amount of watts.

Again, I'm not quite sure what is going on here, so if I make a mistake about something (like I didn't read/interpret something properly), it's probably not my fault.

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Power Pox

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those are the strong chicken pox

its very straight forward to put together as people here , just remember to always touch the case first before the internal parts, any static can damage the computer, computers run on 5V, it takes about 30V to damage it, and i think its likt 3,000V is the lowest voltage you can feel as a shock, so even if you don't feel it, it could still damage it

just incase some of yous are confused...i am intending to buy in parts( EG motherboard processor RAM ect) then building up the PC then selling for profit....however small

but i am confused about is how do i know how big a PSU i neeed like i mean, do i get a 400W...a 270W....a 500W ect......????

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Originally posted by Ptoye
but i am confused about is how do i know how big a PSU i neeed like i mean, do i get a 400W...a 270W....a 500W ect......????

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It depends... 500w is usually ok though.

400 W would cover most typical computers these days, unless you have a bunch of extra drives and peripherals attached. Consider that a high end graphics card alone could use ~200W. A high end machine might need as much as 700W

Wattage isn't the only thing that matters when picking a power source.. Other specifications like the number of rails in each line and amperage in each line is also important..

In my opinion, if you don't know how to pick components properly, you should wait some more time until you get to know a lot more about computers..

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Originally posted by Jhrono
In my opinion, if you don't know how to pick components properly, you should wait some more time until you get to know a lot more about computers..

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IMO, if you never try and fail you never learn.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Jhrono
In my opinion, if you don't know how to pick components properly, you should wait some more time until you get to know a lot more about computers..

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IMO, if you never try and fail you never learn.

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True, but he shouldn't be selling them but building them for himself.

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Originally posted by Vilkku

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Jhrono
In my opinion, if you don't know how to pick components properly, you should wait some more time until you get to know a lot more about computers..

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IMO, if you never try and fail you never learn.

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True, but he shouldn't be selling them but building them for himself.

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Would be no point buildin for myself as i already have 3!!! 2 computers and a laptop, but i would like to build for experance