How do I convince my parents to let me build a PC?

Fundak · Sep 13, 2015

Hello everyone , I am 15 years old and I live in Cyprus.I'll be getting a new computer soon and I've found out that the best way to do so is building a PC yourself.

My parents also know that getting the parts and building a PC is way cheaper as they heard it from some employee who told them so. The problem is , they don't trust me by building a PC , they say I'll probably bend something and also said that I'll mess up and the PC won't work at all in the end. I've been researching a lot lately and I've read that building a PC is not that hard and there are also a lot of tutorials online that help you do it. My parents don't believe me yet and what they offered is telling a shop or retailer to purchase the parts for us and build it . I know that will downgrade the performance a lot since they'll be picking cheaper parts so they make profit , which is reasonable. I've offered we buy it from a place where they can build it for you for free if you pick all the parts from there but the parts there are very , very overpriced.

So how do i convince my parents to let me build a PC? Are there any other solutions?Has any of you been in the same situation?If so what did you end up doing?
-Thank you for reading .

mistuhj · Sep 13, 2015

Show them the video tutorials and explain to them what each part is and where it goes.
Just show them that you know what you're doing.

giantbucket · Sep 13, 2015

take apart an old computer and show them how simple it is and that nothing got damaged in the process. then put it back together, turn it on, and tell them "gimme my money!!!"

mbarnes86 · Sep 13, 2015

Hi

It is usually not cheaper to build a PC your self as whole sale prises are much cheaper than retail prices
Especially windows licences

But the experience is well worth it as you get to know how to assemble parts and choose good quality parts not the parts the seller has in stock at the time the PC is built

Some builders will tell you what make and model of motherboard others just the chipset
If you go a head try to buy every thing from one supplier so if you have problems they can't say the problem is with a part you purchased from someone else

Do you have any older friends or relatives or teachers with PC building experience who could help you if you run into problems ?
This may satisfy your parents concerns

Best of luck

Mike Barnes

USAFRet · Sep 13, 2015

Agreed with above.
Buy an old one for $20 that still works. Take it apart to a pile of parts.
Leave it for a couple of days.
Show them the pile of parts. "See mom, this is a PC"
Have them come back in a few hours, to a fully working PC. If necessary, just booted into a free Linux LiveCD.

This may or may not work in your case.

How do I know this works?
1. I came home one day (years ago), and my 11 year old son and friends had 3 broken xboxes, all in pieces on the living room floor. They were making one good one out of 3 broken ones. It worked.

2. Last xmas, my 10 year old grandson built his xmas present. I chose and bought all the parts, and got him started with the build. He ended up doing 90% of the work. 10 years old.

USAFRet · Sep 13, 2015

Know this, though...'building' is not necessarily cheaper than 'buying'. You would, however, gain significant knowledge, and probably better quality.

Larry Litmanen · Sep 13, 2015

Building is not always cheaper, i don't know the case with Cyprus, but in USA for the most part the difference between building and buying is not all that big, $200-$300. Some people just rather buy and get the warranty and all.

Why don't you have your parents buy you a PC, use it for a year or so and after that buy a new GPU, so you get a PC, you will half build it and still get to play all the best games.

seeingeyegod · Sep 13, 2015

Gotta love when your parents have no faith that you will be good at something you are actually motivated to do. While forcing you to do a million other things you don't want to do that you end up being decent at.

speck100 · Sep 13, 2015

I had this same problem about two years ago. You should first try doing a hobby for example photography or video editing and show them how you need a more powerful machine. Also try and find a summer job or working for your neighbors. If you already have the money then you should try showing the advantages and how you can do it all yourself. If you mess up when building they could lose some trust in you so I would make sure to use http://pcpartpicker.com to build your pc.

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