Originally posted by shaveice
I do build them for friends at cost only because I really do enjoy building computers. Sometimes they can be a headache like the one build involving an ECS mobo and an Nvdia graphics card. Lotsa conflicts on that build but I finally got everything to work by updating all the drivers for everything that was installed.
Right now I'm posting this response on a friend's computer he needed cleaned out. It was running slow so I ran CCleaner to take care of defunct and unnecessary registry keys then I ran Ad-Aware and Spy Bot Search and Destroy to take out the malware. After doing a disk cleanup, scan disk then defrag, this computer is back to "fresh install" speeds with a cleaned up registry and all spyware removed.
These were simple maintenance actions anyone can do with free software available on the internet. However I've had friends up here on the Big Island pay over $300 to do the same thing I just did for free. They tell me, "Well $300 is still cheaper than to buy another $1200 computer" Hmmm I tell them,"I wouldn't have paid $1200 for that thing" cuz it's only worth about $500 in parts.
That's when the eyes open up and the realization that it's not really that hard to build one yourself nowdays for about half the cost of buying one off the shelf.
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