Starting part-time comp. building business. Help and suggestions needed.

Greetings. It's been quite a while since my last post. Hope everyone is
well.

I'm kicking around the idea of starting a small part-time business
building computers (using AMD CPUs) for individuals and very small mom
and pop type of businesses. I've built a handful of computers for
myself and family members and I keep up to date with the latest
hardware, etc. I'm curious as to a few aspects of a business of this
type and I was hoping some of our might be able to help me. I also hope
this is the correct forum for this sort of a question.

First how do you price your machines? Do you mark up parts and also
charge a per hour rate? What do some of you use for your parts mark up
and hourly rate?

What is your average build time for a machine? Mine seems to be around
6-8 hours or so start to finish (including software and drivers).

How do you handle warranty issues? Do you offer a warranty at all? Do
you charge to find the problem, etc.

Another thing that seems to come up is how do you show the value of an
AMD chip vs. an Intel chip. I'd love to find a good comparison web
site that can compare say and AMD Athlon 64 4000+ and show me what the
equivalent Intel chip would be. How do you compare the mhz to mhz?

Anyway, thank you all in advance for your help with these issues. I
really appreciate all of your time and help helping me in my new
venture. Great people, great forums are these.

Sincerely,

Wardhawg

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