Replaced the free-text Known issues box with three dropdowns, Issue One / Two / Three, so you pick faults instead of typing
Standard fault list: Broken CPU / GPU / RAM / Motherboard / PSU / Boot Drive / Case Fan / Cooler, plus No OS Installed and Missing Boot Drive
One fault? Fill the first box, leave the others on (none). Two or three faults on one PC are now supported
First box defaults to No Issue for a clean machine
Existing flips with typed issue notes are auto-migrated, recognised faults map to the dropdowns, anything unusual is preserved so nothing is lost
v1.9: SEO & Social Previews
Added page SEO meta tags, proper title, description and author so the tracker is findable and correctly labelled
Added Open Graph tags, sharing the link in Discord, Facebook etc. now shows a rich preview card with the N7_Maxxi Chibi thumbnail
Added Twitter / X card tags for the same rich preview when shared on X
Added canonical URL and theme colour, no change to how the tool works
v1.8: Flip Calculator Quality of Life
Added → Stash buttons next to CPU and GPU in the title bar, instantly sends a removed part to your stash at $0, field clears ready for the replacement
Added Resale Value field to What You Made section, enter the post-benchmark resale price and flip cards update instantly showing P+$XXX possible profit in green
What You Made section compacted to one row: Broken parts sold | Resale value | PC sold for
CPU upgrade suggestions now filter by socket, Intel LGA 1151 Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake treated as separate incompatible sockets (as they are in-game)
Match Checker single GPU mode now shows socket type on each CPU recommendation
Socket compatibility warning added to Match Checker single GPU mode
v1.7: PC Flips Calculator Overhaul
Paid, Replacement parts and Shipping compacted onto one row
Broken parts sold and PC sold for compacted onto one row
Added 🔧 Known issues / faults text box, note what's broken on each PC
Added flip value rating tag under the CPU + GPU title, shows estimated 3DMark and best stash upgrade instantly when a flip is loaded
Replaced old benchmark before/after fields with a full benchmark comparison tool, up to 5 stash parts to compare side by side, highest profit highlights green, parts not locked in stash
Main profit bar now pulls best possible profit from comparison rows
Total spent display made larger and more prominent
v1.6: Match Checker Formula Overhaul
Replaced inaccurate ratio-based match system with the game's real 3DMark formula: 1 / (0.85 / GPU Score + 0.15 / CPU Score)
GPU now correctly weighted at 85% of total score, weak CPU + great GPU still scores and flips well
Match ratings replaced with Flip Value ratings based on estimated 3DMark score: 💎 Top Tier / 🔥 Great / ✅ Good / ⚠️ Okay / 💀 Low Value
Single part mode now sorts suggestions by estimated 3DMark flip value instead of arbitrary balance ratios
Stash suggestions now show estimated score improvement with new flip value rating
Added 📦 In Delivery status for stash parts, mark parts as in delivery so you don't accidentally remove them before they arrive
Stash cards now sort automatically, delivery cards first, available second, locked/attached last
Drag and drop reordering added to the stash, grab the ⠿ handle to rearrange cards to match your in-game inventory
Fixed stash items not showing as locked when attached to a flip
Fixed stash parts not being removed when a flip is completed from the auction card
v1.4: Job List + UI Improvements
Added 📧 Email checklist to job cards, tick Dust, Virus, note the brand and cable colour directly on the card
Added ✓ Complete & Remove Job button with confirmation popup to job cards
Undo button moved to the right side of the save bar with a cleaner layout
Added autocomplete dropdowns to the pending flip add row for CPU and GPU
Fixed accidental flip completion when no sold price is entered
Added Home button linking back to n7maxxi.com
v1.3: Diagnosis Guide Expanded
Fixed "No OS Found" vs "No Boot Drive", now correctly documented as two different things
Fixed Step 1, Auto-connect failure is PSU or Motherboard, not just PSU
Brand name and Budget trick hints moved to top of email hints as #1 and #2
Added full BSOD Error Guide, CLOCK_WATCHDOG, WHEA, uDisplay.drv, PRN_LIST, Clock Interrupt, GPU Instability, and display driver timeout errors
Removed Parts to Avoid section from Flip Tips, redundant with price guide
v1.2: Match Checker
Added 🎯 Match Checker tab using real partRankingScore data from the game
Single part mode, enter just a CPU or GPU to get matching suggestions from stash and database
Stash integration, attached parts show as 🔒 in the modal, can't be double assigned
Autocomplete search on both CPU and GPU fields
Database recommendations when no stash parts match
v1.1: PC Bay Flip Tracker
Added 💰 PC Bay Flips tab with pending sticky note cards
Three card states, green active, yellow auctioned, grey completed
Profit calculator with 💸 Spending / 🟠 Possible / ✅ Confirmed states
Sold price popup modal when completing a flip
Auto-logs CPU+GPU combos to Flip Tips when profit clears $1,200
Hall of fame showing last 10 completed flips with total profit
Browser auto-save, data persists across page refreshes
JSON save/load for backup and cross-device transfer
v1.0: Initial Release
Job List tab with collapsible cards, budget tracking, and parts checklist
Parts Stash tab with category organisation
Flip Tips tab with combo performance tracker and price guide
Diagnosis Guide with step-by-step checklist and email hints
Guide tab with full usage instructions
PC Building Simulator Tracker
By N7_Maxxi: A tool built to make trophy hunting PCBS easier
👋 What is this?
This tracker was built specifically for PC Building Simulator on PlayStation and PC. It helps you manage customer jobs, track PC Bay flips for profit, organise your parts stash, check CPU and GPU compatibility, and diagnose broken PCs faster. Everything saves automatically in your browser, and if you sign in (top right, free) it saves to your account too, so your progress follows you to any device.
🔢 Need a 3DMark Score Calculator?
If you need to calculate exact 3DMark scores for builds or find the best upgrades to hit a target score, check out JacobWKlein's excellent tool on GitHub, it covers build making, score calculation, and upgrade suggestions.
Your data saves automatically to your browser whenever you make changes, so closing and reopening the tab is fine.
Best option: sign in. Hit Sign In at the top right (Twitch or Discord, free) and your tracker also saves to your account automatically. Clear your browser data, switch browsers, or open the site on another device: sign in and your data is right there. No buttons to remember.
Prefer not to sign in? For extra safety, or to move your data between devices manually, hit 💾 Save data to download a backup file and use 📂 Load data to restore it anytime.
⚠️ Signed out, the browser save is tied to this browser on this device. If you clear your browser data or switch browsers without signing in or making a backup file, your data is gone.
📋 Job List
Track your active customer jobs from the workshop. Each job card stores the customer name, job type, status, time limit, budget, and parts ordered. Click any card to expand it.
Tick the checkbox next to each part as it arrives in-game
The budget strip auto-calculates how much you've spent and what's remaining, goes red if you go over
Set status to In Progress, Waiting on Parts, or Done to track each job
Hit ✕ once then confirm Sure? to delete a completed job
💰 PC Flips
The main money-making tool. Track broken PCs you buy from PC Bay, calculate profit at every stage, and manage your flip pipeline.
Adding a flip
Type the CPU and GPU name in the add row at the bottom, autocomplete helps match database names. Enter the price paid and hit + Add. A green sticky note appears.
The calculator
Tap any green sticky note to load it. The CPU and GPU appear as editable fields in the title bar, a flip value rating shows instantly below using the real 3DMark formula, plus the best stash upgrade suggestion. Each field has a → Stash button, click it to instantly send that part to your stash at $0 and clear the field ready for a replacement.
What you spent
Paid, Replacement parts, and Shipping all sit on one row. Below that is 🔧 Known issues / faults, three dropdowns (Issue One / Two / Three) so you can log what's broken without typing. Most PCs have one fault: just pick it in the first box and leave the others on (none). If a machine has two or three faults (e.g. Broken PSU + Missing Boot Drive), fill the extra boxes too. Set the first box to No Issue for a clean PC.
What you made
Three fields on one row: Broken parts sold, Resale value (post benchmark estimated price, updates the flip card with a P+$XXX possible profit in green), and PC sold for (final auction price, triggers Confirmed Profit).
Attaching stash parts
Click 🧩 Select from stash to pick parts, their cost adds to total spent automatically. GPU and CPU parts auto-update the flip title. Parts attached to other flips show 🔒 and can't be double-assigned.
Benchmark comparison
One comparison row is always ready. Enter a benchmark resale value to see possible profit instantly. Hit + Add comparison for up to 5 rows, pick different stash parts to compare which gives the best profit. The highest profit row highlights green. Parts here are not locked in stash. The main profit bar updates to show the best possible profit from your rows.
Profit states
💸 Currently Spent: red, how much you're down with no resell data yet
🟠 Possible Profit: orange, best profit from benchmark comparison rows
✅ Confirmed Profit: green once the PC actually sells
Sticky note states
🟢 Green: in progress, tap to load into calculator
🟡 Yellow: listed on auction, locked so you can't accidentally load it
⚫ Grey: sold, shows final profit. Last 10 shown, all count toward total
Completing a flip
Hit ✓ Flipped! on the yellow card, a popup asks for the final sold price and shows your profit before completing. Stash parts used get removed automatically.
🧩 Parts Stash
Log parts you pick up cheaply from PC Bay or leftover from upgrade jobs to use in future flips.
Select a category first, then start typing the part name, a dropdown appears with matching parts from the game database for GPU and CPU. For other categories you can type any name freely.
Parts are grouped by category so you can find them quickly
Parts currently attached to a flip show as 🔒 locked and can't be marked as used
Hit ✓ Used to remove a part once installed, it disappears to keep things tidy
Parts pulled from a flip you already sold can be logged at $0, they're essentially free
💡 Flip Tips
A living reference guide that builds up as you flip PCs. Three sections:
CPU + GPU Combo Performance, auto-logs combos when a flip clears $1,200 profit, tracking min and max profit per pairing. Only updates min if above $800 to ignore bad-luck outliers. Sorted by max profit. Pre-filled with proven real-game data.
PC Bay Price Guide, parts worth always buying under a set price. Add your own bargain thresholds as you discover them.
Parts to Avoid, low end parts not worth buying or upgrading to.
💡 Hit ✕ on any entry to remove it. Use the add row at the bottom of each section to log your own findings.
🎯 Match Checker
Check how well a CPU and GPU pair together using the game's real 3DMark formula. Start typing in either box and select from the dropdown, results appear instantly.
How the formula works
The game calculates 3DMark score as: 1 / (0.85 / GPU Score + 0.15 / CPU Score), meaning the GPU carries 85% of the score and the CPU only 15%. This means a weak CPU paired with a great GPU still scores very high and flips for great profit!
Flip value ratings
💎 Top Tier Flip: estimated 3DMark over 10,000
🔥 Great Flip: estimated 3DMark 7,000–10,000
✅ Good Flip: estimated 3DMark 4,500–7,000
⚠️ Okay Flip: estimated 3DMark 2,500–4,500
💀 Low Value: estimated 3DMark under 2,500
Single part mode
Enter just a CPU or just a GPU and the tool shows the best matching parts from your stash and the database, sorted by estimated 3DMark flip value, not arbitrary balance ratios.
💡 Hit ↺ Clear to reset both fields before checking a new combo.
🔧 Diagnosis Guide
A step-by-step checklist for diagnosing broken PCs. Work through it top to bottom, ticking each item off as you check it in-game. Hit ↺ Reset when starting a fresh job.
The Email Hints section shows clues to look for in the customer's email, brand mentions, descriptions of what happened, or budget size can all hint at what's broken. These are hints not guarantees!
💬 PC Bay flipping tips
High end GPU + cheap repair = best profit. Always check what's broken before deciding whether to upgrade
If a strong CPU has a weak GPU, check if a better GPU is cheap on PC Bay, swapping it can triple resell value
Use the Match Checker before upgrading to make sure the swap actually improves the pairing
Always benchmark before listing, it dramatically increases resell value
The auction can close above or below the estimated resell value shown in-game
Multiple flips running simultaneously costs nothing extra, always have something in the pipeline
Parts salvaged from a flip you've already sold can be logged at $0 in the stash, they're genuinely free profit boosters
Check the Flip Tips tab before buying a PC to see if that CPU+GPU combo has proven results
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💸 What you spent
🔧 Known issues / faults
🧩 Stash parts used in this flip
Total spent$0.00
📊 Benchmark comparison: select stash parts to compare
Part
Part cost
Benchmark resale
Possible profit
Benchmark value gained$0.00
💰 What you made
Total Profit$0.00
📦 Pending: tap to load
📊 CPU + GPU Combo Performance
💸 PC Bay Price Guide: Always buy under these prices
Type to search for a CPU and GPU to see how well they match. Based on real partRankingScore data from the game.
Step 1: Auto-connect + power test
✓
Auto-connect fails + nothing happens at power button
Either a dead PSU or faulty Motherboard. Try replacing the PSU first, if still dead, check the motherboard.
PSU / MOBO
Step 2: Boots but shows an error
✓
"No CPU detected" on boot
CPU is faulty or not seated. Replace or reseat CPU.
CPU
✓
"No RAM detected" on boot
RAM is faulty or not seated. Replace or reseat RAM.
RAM
✓
"No Boot Drive" on boot
Hard drive is faulty or missing. Replace the hard drive / SSD.
HDD/SSD
✓
"No OS Found" on boot
The operating system isn't installed, the drive is fine. Insert the OS USB drive and restart to install.
OS
Step 3: Boots but no picture
✓
Powers on but no display output
Usually a GPU issue. Check if GPU fans are spinning, if not, GPU is likely dead.
GPU
Step 4: Cooling issues
✓
CPU cooler fans not spinning
CPU cooler is faulty. Replace the cooler.
COOLER
If all else looks clear: run through these
✓
Dust buildup
Use the air duster to clean out dust from fans and heatsinks.
CLEAN
✓
Virus scan
Run a virus scan on the PC. Remove anything flagged.
SCAN
✓
Thermal paste
Remove CPU cooler, clean off old paste and reapply fresh thermal paste.
THERMAL
💡 Tip: tick each item off as you check it. Hit reset when you start a fresh diagnose job.
📧 Email hints: clues to look for
⚠️ These are hints not guarantees, always verify by checking the actual part!
🏷️Brand name = broken partHINT #1
If they mention a brand e.g. "I love my Silverstone PSU", that brand's part is likely the broken one
If they name a specific part e.g. "Did my PSU break?", that part is almost certainly broken
💰Budget trickHINT #2
If one part costs roughly 60-80% of the total budget, it's probably the only broken part
You can order it before the PC even arrives to save a day!
⚡Possibly PSU or MotherboardPSU / MOBO
"I spilt liquid on it" / "burning smell"
"White smoke came out"
"I dropped it on the floor"
PC completely dead, no fans, nothing at all
🦠Possibly VirusVIRUS
"My kid was playing on it"
"I'm seeing weird pop-ups"
"It's running really slow lately"
"I clicked on something I shouldn't have"
💨Possibly DustDUST
"My PC lives on the floor"
"I picked it up and stuff fell out"
"I never cleaned it, is that okay?"
🌡️Possibly Overheating / Thermal PasteTHERMAL
"It's running really hot"
"It keeps shutting itself off"
"Fans are really loud"
💙 BSOD Error Guide
Blue screen errors that appear during benchmark or boot, each points to a specific hardware issue.
💙CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUTCPU COOLING
CPU cooler is missing, disconnected, too small, or has no thermal paste
High-end CPUs (i7-8700K, Ryzen 2700X, Threadripper) need larger coolers, a small cooler won't cut it
Check cooler is seated properly and thermal paste is applied
💙WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERRORPSU / RAM
PSU wattage is too low for the components installed, check total power draw vs PSU capacity
Can also be caused by insufficient RAM for the build
Upgrade PSU or swap to a less power-hungry GPU/CPU
💙uDisplay.drv ErrorGPU COOLING
GPUs are overheating, usually happens with dual GPU (SLI) builds that don't have enough case fans
Add more case fans or upgrade existing ones to higher CFM
Also appears when GPU is overclocked too high (above ~95°C)
Check thermal paste on CPU and make sure the case is closed
💙PRN_LIST_CORRUPTRAM OC
RAM has been overclocked too high or given insufficient voltage
Go into BIOS and either reduce RAM frequency or increase voltage slightly
💙Clock Interrupt ErrorCPU OC
CPU has been overclocked too aggressively, frequency too high or voltage too low
Go into BIOS and reduce CPU ratio/frequency, or increase voltage slightly
Factory reset BIOS if unsure
💙Attempt to reset display driver and recover from timeout failedGPU
GPU is unstable, most commonly caused by overclock being too aggressive
Can also be thermal throttling from insufficient cooling or a mismatched dual-GPU (SLI) setup without enough fans
Fix: reduce GPU overclock, increase GPU voltage, add more case fans, or lower memory clock
💙GPU Instability ErrorGPU OC
GPU overclock is too high or voltage is set too low
Reduce GPU core clock or increase GPU voltage in the OC tool
✓ Complete Job
This will mark the job as complete and remove it from your list. Make sure you've sent the PC back first!