PC Building Simulator: Earn Money Faster & Maximize Profits

• Know the budget limits. Story job budgets can be ignored. Non-Story jobs allow 10% over-budget.
• On every Upgrade and Repair job, replace as many customer parts as you can!
• Install only New parts into Customer PCs.
• Install only Used parts into benchmarked PC Bay PCs, overclocked to earn more.
• It’s okay to be ruthless. This is a game, and a 5-star customer is happy!

• New Part:
  • New part prices are worth 3 times the Used part resale values.
  • Value: 3x
• Used Part being Sold:
  • Used part resale values are worth 1/3 the New part prices.
  • Value: 1x
• Used Part in Customer PC:
  • You charge the customer an extra 25% when you put a Used part into a Customer PC.
  • Value: 1.25x
• Used Part on PC Bay:
  • The value is the Used Part value, with 20% fluctuation per the Market.
  • Value: 0.8x to 1.2x
• Used Part in a non-benchmarked PC Bay PC:
  • The value is the Used Part value, with 20% fluctuation per the Market.
  • Value: 0.8x to 1.2x
• Used Part in a benchmarked PC Bay PC:
  • Benchmarked PC Bay PCs will earn you the most money!
  • Run 3DMark to benchmark a PC Bay PC.
  • This drastically increases the Resale Value of the entire PC!
  • The value ranges, is often double, and has an upper limit of the New Part value.
  • Value: 1.5x to 3.0x

• Story job budgets can be ignored (unless required in red), so replace all the parts that you can!
• Non-Story jobs have a 10% tolerance, so multiply by 1.1 to use the real budget limit.
• If you stay below the real budget limit, you will not be penalized with a 1-star rating.

Upgrade & Repair Jobs – Replace these parts

• Upgrade for a 3DMark score allows:
  • Motherboard, CPU, Cooler, GPU(s), RAM, Power Supply
• Upgrade GPU allows:
  • GPU(s) (required), Power Supply
• Upgrade to AIO cooler allows:
  • AIO Cooler (required), Case Fans
• Fix broken CPU allows:
  • CPU (required), Cooler, Motherboard, Power Supply
• Fix broken GPU allows:
  • GPU (required), Power Supply
• Fix other broken part allows:
  • Only that part (required)

PC Bay – Buy Used Parts and Used PCs

• I highly recommend buying every Used part and Used PC, available on PC Bay.
• Definitely buy every Used Part, even if you don’t need it for a build yet. You will.
• Especially buy the Broken PCs, because they earn great profits.
• Sometimes a “Broken PC” will even have nothing wrong with it!

• Example scenario: Need a CPU/GPU that is better
• Filter the Part Ranking column for parts that are better (greater than or equal to a score)
• Sort by Price ascending, to find the cheapest part
• This allows you to have more budget leftover to replace other Used Parts!
• You can especially use this strategy to determine whether switching to a different socket will allow you to steal more parts, when the budget is tight.

Abuse the “HTML Calculator” Build Upgrader on 3DMark Score Upgrades

• Newer AMD CPUs provide a tremendous “bang for buck” value.
• On Upgrade jobs, ignore what the Customer currently has.
• Instead, give inputs that indicate that you want an AM4 chipset, and need to replace as many parts as possible!
• Recommended inputs:
  • Current Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1200 (to force a CPU replacement)
  • Current Ram: Single, 2133 (to make sure results will meet our score with cheap RAM)
  • Current GPU: EVGA GeForce GT 1030 SC (to force a GPU replacement)
  • Current Motherboard: B450 AORUS M (to force AM4, allow SLI/CrossFire, support big GPUs)
  • Budget: Put the real budget limit, including the 10% over-tolerance cushion.
  • Score Offset: 1000 (to allow more results)
  • Number Of Result: 250 (to allow more results)

• Bootup Bonus – When you boot the system, Resale Value increases by $100.
• Benchmark Bonus – When you benchmark the system using 3DMark, Resale Value increases to be 1.5x-3.0x the Used Part value.

Part Combinations

• Pair expensive parts with high-end-performing parts.
• The high performance boosts the value of the entire PC, including expensive parts.
• If you plan on overclocking for more value, then try not to pair a non-overclocking motherboard with an overclocking CPU, and try not to pair an overclocking motherboard with a non-overclocking CPU.

Multi-GPU (SLI / Crossfire)

• Deciding to include 2 GPUs is personal preference, really.
• My recommendation: Do not use SLI/Crossfire for expensive GPUs, but do use SLI/Crossfire if you have extra cheap GPUs in your inventory.

Buying New Parts

• Should you buy any New Parts to complete a build?
• In general, try not to do this. Just wait until you can get the final Used Part for your build.
• But if you have all parts except 1, and don’t want to wait anymore, you can buy 1 New Part, and still expect to make a profit.
• Pro Tip: If you need a Case for a PC Bay build, buy the “CORSAIR Carbide Series SPEC-DELTA RGB”, because you can put the New Fans into Customer PCs, and miraculously earn a profit on the bare case in a PC Bay PC!

By PUC_Snakeman