PC upgrade service ?

doomstruction

doomstruction

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Hi, I wanted to upgrade my pc as its getting old now and i have saved up a bit of money from Christmas. My question is do you do upgrading service. If yes, does it limit to only prebuilt overclockers pc or not.
I bought the parts from overclockers few years ago and might still have the receipt somewhere. I am very bad at building pc. Last time i tried took me a week to get it all up and had a really bad time.
cabling was also hell. Its all jumbled up. This time i would like to get liquid cooling aswell as this pc makes too much dust and my nose is all ticklish if i dont clean once per week.

Thanks

p.s not sure if im in the correct thread ;(
 
doomstruction said:
Hi, I wanted to upgrade my pc as its getting old now and i have saved up a bit of money from Christmas. My question is do you do upgrading service. If yes, does it limit to only prebuilt overclockers pc or not.
I bought the parts from overclockers few years ago and might still have the receipt somewhere. I am very bad at building pc. Last time i tried took me a week to get it all up and had a really bad time.
cabling was also hell. Its all jumbled up. This time i would like to get liquid cooling aswell as this pc makes too much dust and my nose is all ticklish if i dont clean once per week.

Thanks

p.s not sure if im in the correct thread ;(
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In fairness, PC's do not make dust, they just collect it. Try a vacuum cleaner.
 
Doomstruction, you could try a modular PSU for your next build? Modular means that the cables come with the PSU, but you only attach the ones that you'll need. Also, things like primary/secondary master, primary/secondary slave and jumpers are pretty much done away with. They're all S-ATA cables now - all look the same and it doesn't matter too much which order you attach them to the motherboard. Although in practise, I'd attach the 1st HDD to the S-ATA port nearest to the CPU, but again, doesn't make much difference. You don't have a floppy drive any more either, so again less cables.
 
I'm pretty confident with replacing memory, hard drives, graphics cards etc. But i draw the line at replacing the motherboard/cpu, i would love a service where i get to keep my case but replace my motherboard/cpu but keep my current memory, hard drives, graphics cards. I could probably get the chap round the corner with his local computer shop to do it but i rather get someone professional and a company to cover me in case it all goes **** up
 
Jacksonn said:
This would be a great idea!! I'm far to lazy to do this! and would happily pay for someone to upgrade it for me!
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Everyone I know who (at some point) tried to make money building/ upgrading PCs said the same thing:

There is no money in it.

Especially when people then seem to want unlimited lifetime support thrown in at no cost.

Every one of them moved on to more lucrative pursuits.
 
So many people are confident doing it anyway. You're bound to know someone who knkws someone who'll do it for a case of beer.

Gutting a simple air cooled system and rebuilding it should take no more than two hours anyway, more if you start factoring in cable management, water loops and blingy bits lile fans and LEDs.

I could probably rebuild my system in an hour.
 
Diddums said:
So many people are confident doing it anyway. You're bound to know someone who knkws someone who'll do it for a case of beer.

Gutting a simple air cooled system and rebuilding it should take no more than two hours anyway, more if you start factoring in cable management, water loops and blingy bits lile fans and LEDs.

I could probably rebuild my system in an hour.
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Could you help me build one for a case of beer ; )
 
The problem I've found with doing anything like this is that this almost never works on a commercial basis. It's not worth it for the company purely due to the amount of issues people will come back with "Ever since you upgraded xyz part, things haven't been working" or having someone send in DDR4 ram with a DDR3 motherboard expecting us to just make it work.
 
SonniLombardi said:
I love to upgrade myself the idea of pulling apart a system and putting it together how you want it is is very rewarding IMO.
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+1 on this but like everything in life it will not appeal to everyone. Is there no one on these forums that lives near you and would be prepared to help out, for some beer vouchers or other remuneration?
 
Kronos said:
+1 on this but like everything in life it will not appeal to everyone. Is there no one on these forums that lives near you and would be prepared to help out, for some beer vouchers or other remuneration?
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hehe, i was thinking the same thing. Im trying to find one at the moment ;D
only things im changing are the gpu and installing a ssd in a new case, so maybe 30 mins for a skilled person :S
 
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jamiehard1989 said:
Same, i must have swaped my loop around 6 times this month as get bored of looking at it.

All i get from the other half why you ******* changing it again.
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I get this from anyone that knows me. They can't comprehend the true benefits to upgrades and how satisfying it is to have a pretty build. :D
 
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