Most of the hard work in building a PC comes before you have any parts in hand.
Determining what kind of PC the customer needs and what components will best serve those requirements while keeping to their budget is the whole trick.
Actually assembling the hard parts into the case and installing Windows is cake.
I probably spend twenty hours a week scouring forums and tech sites to see what is available and how other folks are doing so I can speak with relative authority to the customers at my shop.
Even then it's a crap shoot and you need to allow for the extra time you will spend working around the inevitable hangups and glitches.
To begin learning about parts go here....
http://www.ocforums.com/
or
http://forums.anandtech.com/
Just be aware that building a new PC and selling it to a customer is much more involved than you probably suspect.
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