How many PCs have you built?

[tovleander]

Built one.

Remodeled quite a fev

[Resonance]

I've built around 11-12.

[kalo6]

17-20 PC' build  since  1997 some mine some for other people 

[A Bubble]

2 Other than mine, though they are both high end rigs. My own has been taken apart and put back countless times.

[brownninja97]

Thousands. Probably somewhere between 120,000-150,000 over a span of two years.

wow thats around 160 per day, how in the heck do you achieve that, kudos to you and that work ethic.

[Gontier]

wow thats around 160 per day, how in the heck do you achieve that, kudos to you and that work ethic.

I worked in mass PC production for 2 years for a well known OEM. It's fairly straightforward to build a specific configuration over and over. Once you've built a certain config a few times you get it down pretty easily to the point where you can build it in under a minute. The chassis supplier (Foxconn) usually had the motherboard & PSU pre-installed in the case, so there was a few seconds saved on that, though there was still extra some work because coolers, HDDs and ODDs usually also had to be screwed in (whereas modern designs now use tool-less clip installation). All in all it was just 6 basic stages of component installation. The average was usually around 300 systems in a standard 8 hour shift, the easiest designs could hit over 500 in a shift. Servers on the other hand... with configs calling for 16 hard drives you'd be lucky if you could finish 20 an hour. 

 

Very fun though, and I said this in another thread before, but I always chuckle when I see people freaking out over some things in the computer like CPU installation, how to hold it, etc. So even looking at how many computers a guy like Linus has built, it's still nowhere near the experience and ease of mind of someone like myself who has handled hundreds of processors each day.

[Dicoray]

I make PCs for other people as a hobby/part time job and I've probably built around 60 PCs

[brownninja97]

I worked in mass PC production for 2 years for a well known OEM. It's fairly straightforward to build a specific configuration over and over. Once you've built a certain config a few times you get it down pretty easily to the point where you can build it in under a minute. The chassis supplier (Foxconn) usually had the motherboard & PSU pre-installed in the case, so there was a few seconds saved on that, though there was still extra some work because coolers, HDDs and ODDs usually also had to be screwed in (whereas modern designs now use tool-less clip installation). All in all it was just 6 basic stages of component installation. The average was usually around 300 systems in a standard 8 hour shift, the easiest designs could hit over 500 in a shift. Servers on the other hand... with configs calling for 16 hard drives you'd be lucky if you could finish 20 an hour. 

 

Very fun though, and I said this in another thread before, but I always chuckle when I see people freaking out over some things in the computer like CPU installation, how to hold it, etc. So even looking at how many computers a guy like Linus has built, it's still nowhere near the experience and ease of mind of someone like myself who has handled hundreds of processors each day.

shucks man, and i was so proud of my pc build record of 4m 53sec and i was proper rushing to get that done, honestly hardest part is dealing with the cables. Lol also my record of about 350 computers built is dwarfed by how much you do even in a day.

[JoaoPRSousa]

Only mine

I would like to build some more...

[ObscureMammal]

6 and counting

[Gontier]

shucks man, and i was so proud of my pc build record of 4m 53sec and i was proper rushing to get that done, honestly hardest part is dealing with the cables. Lol also my record of about 350 computers built is dwarfed by how much you do even in a day.

Well it depends on the case you're building into and the configuration. Most of the computers that people build here on this forum can be classified as boutique builds because they take more time and effort into getting everything perfect, that's not to say that I was building computers without quality. I was mostly building office computers. Cable management is important, but at the end of the day the customer mainly just wants a working PC, looks for them are about as much as you get on the outside of the case. Most orders for a single customer were for a couple hundred desktops at once. So after you built one, you knew the other 99 would follow the same config. I say mass PC production for a reason, the surrounding environment you work in is designed to make your job as easy as possible and to let you build as many computers as possible in a given time frame. 

 

Most of the people I worked with will say it was monotonous work, but I always enjoyed every moment of it. There were lots of fun things and it was a great working experience for me. Like as most people probably know, the big OEMs also get parts before consumers because we need to test our builds in labs before we can build huge volumes for customers. We had Ivy Bridge on the radar for well over a year before official launch, and we starting using the chip in builds about 6 weeks before consumer release. Haswell-E recently was pretty much the same thing. I knew the specifications before they were even leaked, but obviously I couldn't talk about them, could I? Other small things like seeing who the client was also made it feel great. When you're building computers that will be used in designing AAA game titles, animated movies, or even for a country's government or army it's an amazing feeling knowing that you were part of the force that helped power that 

 

Guess who assembled some of the computers for DICE to work on Battlefield 4 

[Fi4Bngr]

I started building them back in 1995. Back when motherboards had switches, jumpers, parallel ports and IDE cables  :lol: I've built close to 10 rigs for myself and probably another 10 for family and friends. 

[aznfishie]

Just 1, a low-mid range one at that. Build it a couple of years ago and still using it

[Potalien]

Two so far, a Htpc / light gaming rig, and my own gaming computer. Will probably be making a hackintosh and another gaming computer for a few friends this year though.

[Sousuke]

6 I've built from scratch either for myself or my mates who didn't want to get a Dell :lol:

 

Rebuilt ... 40 Perhaps Which includes Macs and Laptops, Even rebuilt a Macintosh Plus 1MB

[ChipWoodChainSaw]

2 both for friends, i have yet to build my own PC

[RevyOcelot]

Two, one for a friend and one for myself.

[Cobiee]

15+ Built a lot for friends and my work place including my own and familys

[asim1999]

techincally 3:

2.5 desktops ( my own rig and repairing and upgrading my Dell Dimension 3000 to 2GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive a few years back)

and the other 0.5 is transplanting my laptop parts to my cunle's which broke (we have the same laptop, it took hours between us as Dell laptops are a pain in the backside)/ He is happily using a Nehalem i5 laptop (2C.4T) which he has for work

[Orblivion]

I'm on my 5th for myself, with I think about 14-15 more for friends and family.  So about 20?

[ologiic]

Two for myself, and one for a friend.

[mariohead123]

Just the one i have now in my sig..

Uh, you don't have a sig, you might want to get that fixed.

[MourningSouls]

Not counting prebuilts I took apart and then put back together, either for giggles or a new case, 2 or 3.

 

And AMD Sempron build, my current Phenom X6 system and I think an Intel one before the Sempron, but I can't recall if that was a build or rebuild.

[mark201200]

20, all with recycled stuff (PIII, P4, C2D)

[Photonic]

Only 2