quote on my computer cleaning and ram upgrade

[craigsters]

I called a local computer repair store nearby me to get an estimate cost of cleaning my PC tower and buying and installing 16gb of ram, he quoted me a $200 CAD to get the pc cleaned and ram upgrade and installed

I tried to open my previous PC tower I wanted to salvage for parts, and ended up disconnecting the PC tower's lighting system and gave up, it was a alienware aurora r7 tower, I ended up giving it to my niece and she was happy, so I'm worry of opening my alienware aurora r12 dark side of the moon tower, not wanting to wreck it too trying open it up to add ram bought else where if your suggesting I do it myself

I paid a one time fee of $169 to a collection agency before going bankrupt and won this PC in my bankruptcy 3 years ago, before you start saying stop renting to own with Dell Financial, Dell tried to fleece me for $169 a month over 8 years rent to own with them for this PC , I don't rent to own anymore after that debacle


Is that $200 CAD to much for everything to be done?

[kbiz]

Is the RAM included? Seems reasonable given the price of labor these days.

You could probably do it yourself for $50.

[Haruspex]

Cleaning your PC would take about a minute with an air compressor. 16 GB of RAM (assuming DDR4) is about $40 Canadian. RAM is also the easiest/quickest PC component to upgrade.

If you're not confident enough to do it yourself, I understand paying a professional, but in total for the parts and labor, I wouldn't pay more than about $80.

[Råb!d]

It's not hard to build a pc, especially these days.

Although they may professionally clean the pc better than you, I'm sure you could do it.

Watch a couple videos on youtube and then buy some canned air. Make sure you unplug the computer before cleaning it. If you're not comfortable touching something, then don't touch it.

You could easily replace the ram. It's not hard. It is well within your ability.

I don't know what the money will buy you for ram, but right now you can still buy ram pretty cheaply, since you live in Canada. Just make sure you buy from a Canadian supplier.

[craigsters]

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Cleaning your PC would take about a minute with an air compressor. 16 GB of RAM (assuming DDR4) is about $40 Canadian. RAM is also the easiest/quickest PC component to upgrade.

If you're not confident enough to do it yourself, I understand paying a professional, but in total for the parts and labor, I wouldn't pay more than about $80.

I've set RAM before, the thing I'm unsure and worried about, is the cooling or partial cooling system in the tower may get in the way and may be hard to get out and move and put back in etc

[geofruck]

That's way too much, imho. Bite the bullet and try it yourself, it's really not that hard. RAM upgrades are pretty easy. Just look up some videos on it. Retail for a 64GB kit on that (DDR4 3200MHz UDIMM) is $100 USD, easily within your budget. You'd end up with 4x the RAM for less cost. You would just need to ensure that you have the slots. If all of your slots are full (Mobo on this should have 4), things would be different, even if you have someone else do it.

[Corvus XIII]

The advantage of getting a 'professional' to do it is they should have insurance if anything goes wrong.
Make sure if you go that route to find out the 'what if this thing goes wrong' and any after support too.

Practising or playing around on an old system before hand to get yourself used to hardware is a good idea too.
Surgeons have practice dummys so no reason why you shouldn't practice first either.

-was typing this out before i saw you had done it before easily enough.

[Plutoski]

ripping u off

[Råb!d]

Originally posted by craigsters:

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Cleaning your PC would take about a minute with an air compressor. 16 GB of RAM (assuming DDR4) is about $40 Canadian. RAM is also the easiest/quickest PC component to upgrade.

If you're not confident enough to do it yourself, I understand paying a professional, but in total for the parts and labor, I wouldn't pay more than about $80.

I've set RAM before, the thing I'm unsure and worried about, is the cooling or partial cooling system in the tower may get in the way and may be hard to get out and move etc

Spend the $20 or $30 on a simple computer tool kit. These days you can video tape yourself removing something if you are really concerned.

But the parts are pretty simple to remove. The hardest part often is not losing the screw(s) as you replace stuff.

Along with your computer repair kit, pickup a small box of common computer screws for $5 or so on Amazon.

If you get stuck, just post a question in the Hardware section of the Steam forum. The people are very helpful.

[craigsters]

Originally posted by Hobbit XIII:

The advantage of getting a 'professional' to do it is they should have insurance if anything goes wrong.
Make sure if you go that route to find out the 'what if this thing goes wrong' and any after support too.

Practising or playing around on an old system before hand to get yourself used to hardware is a good idea too.
Surgeons have practice dummys so no reason why you shouldn't practice first either.

-was typing this out before i saw you had done it before easily enough.

it was on a regular Dell PC 10 years ago I added ram too myself, I also now about removing the motherboard battery to reset passwords when forgotten, A friend was locked out of his PC forgetting his password and I removed the battery for a day and reset his password system and allowing him to use his PC again

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by craigsters:

I've set RAM before, the thing I'm unsure and worried about, is the cooling or partial cooling system in the tower may get in the way and may be hard to get out and move and put back in etc

If it's a water cooler it won't be in the way at all. If it's an air cooler, you might need to temporarily remove a fan at the most, but you won't need to remove the entire cooler. The fans on my air cooler just clip on and off with wire clips.

Just open it and take a look. You're not going to hurt it by just opening it. It will probably be simpler than you thought.

[skOsH♥]

Yeah op I would recommend getting an air compressor

Canned air is gross to work with since it can make you woozy, also it costs too much. A good air compressor from Amazon will run you about 60dollars

I keep my PC in like a cupboard thing, and when I blast air into it, I can then just vacuum the cupboard after and get all the dust. The air compressor usually lasts like 10 minutes on a single charge...which i have to do now since when I turn it on, I can't turn it off anymore, that part of my air compressor broke...but that's 10 minutes thoroughly dusts out everything. The off button stopped working after maybe two years of owning it.

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lol

[Hammer Of Evil]

if they fully warranty any repairs, loss or damage while its in their control, sure. otherwise i'd get some quotes.

[PlanktonHatesTheWorld]

Originally posted by Beltneck:

You don't exactly have to be an expert to put a PC together these days. Its not like you solder anything anymore, or have to build your own firmware.

$200 is the cost of not knowing how to use a screwdriver and identify shapes.

Though some brands do make repairs more difficult than they need to be. Like I remember this one Apple laptop I just wanted to put a bit more memory in. Needed a heat gun to take off the housing without cracking it, then remove 20+ screws to take out the keyboard, then another 9 screws to take out the cover plate for the memory.

Where just about any other brand of laptop only has you take out 1-2 screws to get at the memory, and you don't need to take out the keyboard to get at it either. ♥♥♥♥ Apple.

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[kingjames488]

go to walmart and get a can of compressed air for like $10(that's over-priced too.... but unless you want to buy them in a 6-pack like I do you'll be paying that.)

open the case and use the can of compressed air to blow out the case yourself... I suggest doing it while the system is on but many wouldn't... I've just found fans tend to stop working if you blow them out while they're off so I always do it while they're running... just be careful not to touch things too much and it'll be fine.

then if you're not feeling like you can upgrade your own ram take it in and pay them less for that...

paying someone to clean your case is kinda silly IMO.