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Work, Repair some stuff for family and friends and ask some money for the jobs and I buy some used hardware and build computers and sell them with a llittle profit.

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How do you wait 2 years though mate? 

patience my friend.. its worth  it, welp it was more than 2 years.. it was like 3 years but i didnt get to work when i was 13.. so i only got around 450€ that whole year

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patience my friend.. its worth  it, welp it was more than 2 years.. it was like 3 years but i didnt get to work when i was 13.. so i only got around 450€ that whole year

Wow man, your build is set too. I see where your coming from. I got an idea now... still could take help though lol

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Checked my bank account, checked the cost of parts, made sure the latter number was smaller than the former, and away I went. :P

 

Granted, it's a lot easier being older and having a full time job. If you're just part time or have limited income, the option you mentioned about saving a certain % is a great way to go about making a 'PC Build' fund.

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Needed a new PC for school, invested some money rest was a tax write off for my dads business :D

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30% of my paycheck goes to my savings.

I waited until I had ~$1200 set aside with still enough afterwards to pay for insurance, food, phone, and server bills.  

 

This way I could pay out of savings without actually putting any strain on myself financially.

 

I'm doing this again right now, and usually I have enough after a few months of saving up.

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Got a full time job, don't spend much because I still live at home.

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Well seeing as I have an actual job and get £17000 a year, I just went to the shop and bought it after a couple of months

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i worked an entire summer on a construction site. that got me enough to build a good pc.

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Wow man, your build is set too. I see where your coming from. I got an idea now... still could take help though lol

quite set, yes but id like to have a mobo thats not complete rubbish when overclocking.. i have taken my cpu and put it in my friends gigabyte z77x-up7 and it went to 4.9ghz, while on my board it bluescreens at 4.5.. also a 30 inch 1440p ips monitor and sli for my gpu would be nice

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Yeah, going to apply at another Mcdonald's... wanted to know what you guys did first. Think working at a McDonald's before will help me?

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i worked an entire summer on a construction site. that got me enough to build a good pc.

Cool, what did you do? 

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I got a job at a movie theater, irnoicaly enough, the 11 months i have been working there, i haven't watched a single movie, and i can watch one whenever i want no charge.

anyways, summer, no school, tons of hours, minumum wage (doesn't matter, i get a lot of hours), had 2000 saved up in no time! (well it was like 2 1/2 months)

 

and that's when i got the parts for Digital Overload (my computer's name)

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thats what i was trying to point out but in a nicer way

lol :P

 

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I got a job at a movie theater, irnoicaly enough, the 11 months i have been working there, i haven't watched a single movie, and i can watch one whenever i want no charge.

anyways, summer, no school, tons of hours, minumum wage (doesn't matter, i get a lot of hours), had 2000 saved up in no time! (well it was like 2 1/2 months)

 

and that's when i got the parts for Digital Overload (my computer's name)

I could do that, I'm Cyber Schooled (Thanks MOM!) so I could work full time as long as I make up the hours ^-^. 

The time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time. 

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Well my family was planning to buy a good computer for me for college( CS Major ). I receive a grant for school and I decided to match what may parents put it, but I didn't get a graphics card because Maxwell and so on, plus to pay for tuition.  

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I got a job at a movie theater, irnoicaly enough, the 11 months i have been working there, i haven't watched a single movie, and i can watch one whenever i want no charge.

anyways, summer, no school, tons of hours, minumum wage (doesn't matter, i get a lot of hours), had 2000 saved up in no time! (well it was like 2 1/2 months)

 

and that's when i got the parts for Digital Overload (my computer's name)

You planning on getting something not minimum wage down the line?

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Cool, what did you do? 

I worked for a painting company. i usually did prep work such as taping and sanding. i worked 5 days a week 8 hrs a day. 

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For my first rig I worked for a realtor. My second rig, I kinda just woke up in the morning turned on my PC and sold a stock for $5.6k and decided I was going to buy a new PC. 

... i need to get into the stock market.

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I sold everything but my kids on Ebay to fund my last build.

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Saved? I spent it.

I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

This is NOT the signature you are looking for.

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I could do that, but my dad is really set with Apple like for real. I could receive a Macbook no problem. THough I hate apples.

 

But you can sell that apple crap and get a real gaming rig.

Don't get mad, get even...

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I sold everything but my kids on Ebay to fund my last build.

 

xD i'd do the same if i could.

Don't get mad, get even...

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