How much would you charge to do the following...

humaxf1

...assemble a :

PC case (Q-Tech 350W...cringe)
motherboard (MSI NEO-V PT8)
install CPU (Celeron D330 2.67GHz)
RAM (DDR 512MB PC3200 Cosair)
HDD (Seagate 80 GB IDE ATA/100)
DVD Burner (MSI DR8-A2)
Floppy drive

((All the above cost 424 euro from komplett))

Also to install Windows 2000, MS Office etc and install a 56K modem/configure for dial-up.

I am very confident in installing, but have never done it for money as such before. Any ball park figures for doing the above?

One more thing, I am considering partitoning to keep the OS/prog files separate from the user files.

(The new owner has no idea about file management)

What percentages would be a good choice for the 80GB drive. I would doubt that not a whole load of apps would be installed, so I was thinking, 15GB maybe for C: and remainder for

Thanks,
Dara.

Sherifu

You can get money for this?
Cool.

I'd say about €100 would be good.
€464 or whatever is outrageous.
15Gb will be more than enough for programs.
Windows xp pro only takes up ~2.6GB

RKM.

Dingatron

I charge around 15% of the full components cost inc. delivery. If its under €500 no more than €100.

Dingatron

Be careful patitioning if the user isn't IT literate. Most people will go next > next > next when installing programs and the C:/ would be full in no time.

stevenmu

humaxf1 wrote:

(The new owner has no idea about file management)

What percentages would be a good choice for the 80GB drive. I would doubt that not a whole load of apps would be installed, so I was thinking, 15GB maybe for C: and remainder for

Don't bother partitioning it unless you want to have to go to all the bother of explaining to them about what partitions are, why they have a drive, why they should install everything to the d: drive and finally why their C: drive is now full because they disregarded everything you previously said

Mec-a-nic

I normally charge by the hour, but it shouldn't take long with all new components. (Patching up old PCs is a pain, so I charge accordingly)
As for partitioning, I always leave 20Gb for C: and the rest for , then I set the new users 'My Documents' to \MyDocs
Finally I tell them (in writing) to always backup all of \ regularly so as to save their files if their HD dies...

dabhal

anything more than 100euro would be a complete rip off, all that should only take no more than 2 hours.

Dabhal

stuey

What I normally charge for a pc fix (wiping and re-installing OS) is e30. For a build i charge between 70-120. For such a simple pc as that i would do it for e70. Cause the kompleet job incluiding installation of all software would take only 2hours