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Larry Groff
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I'm hoping to get more insight into building a new PC on my own or paying someone else. I have a budget of roughly 4 - 5K total for a workstation that would be used primarily for generalist 3D work - (rendering, animation, modeling, and some simulations) using Houdini, Redshift, and a variety of other programs. I have never built a PC before and have been somewhat technophobic with messing around with BIOS and such - (Mac user for most of my life (I'm older in my 60's) So I'm not particularly eager to build my own computer for many reasons. However, the savings is so considerable I'm tempted to suck it up and try despite being very nervous about screwing something up due to spacing out or an accident.
I thought a possible compromise might be to find somebody local (San Diego) a small computer repair shop perhaps (or maybe someone on Task Rabbit or similar) Where I could buy all the components (through your fantastic website's recommendations) and then pay them to assemble and test. I have no idea what they might charge so I'd be curious to hear what people here might say to expect is fair for something like this - either by hourly rate or total cost of labor.
If the price of having someone local isn't that much different than paying a website company who makes custom workstations then maybe I'd just go with that as it would have a warranty, etc - even though there pricing can seem rather steep.
I am still very tempted to try to build this myself but my wife says that knowing me it wouldn't be a good idea if my shoddy worksmanship with general handyman activities is any indication!
I'd love to hear advice on this - thanks in advance.
I thought a possible compromise might be to find somebody local (San Diego) a small computer repair shop perhaps (or maybe someone on Task Rabbit or similar) Where I could buy all the components (through your fantastic website's recommendations) and then pay them to assemble and test. I have no idea what they might charge so I'd be curious to hear what people here might say to expect is fair for something like this - either by hourly rate or total cost of labor.
If the price of having someone local isn't that much different than paying a website company who makes custom workstations then maybe I'd just go with that as it would have a warranty, etc - even though there pricing can seem rather steep.
I am still very tempted to try to build this myself but my wife says that knowing me it wouldn't be a good idea if my shoddy worksmanship with general handyman activities is any indication!
I'd love to hear advice on this - thanks in advance.
