"How To Build Your Own PC: Save A Buck And Learn A Lot" will teach you everything you need to build your own desktop PC. You will learn how to: * Select And Choose PC Components * Put The CPU On The Mainboard * Protect Your System From Static Electricity * Install The Mainboard In The Case * Install Hard Drives And CD-RW Drives * Select A DVD Burner And Get Into Digital Filmmaking * Install PCI Expansion Cards * Install Windows XP * Install A Dual-Boot Operating System (XP and Linux) You will also learn about careers in PC repair and be given further resources to continue your study of computers and computer repair.
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ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING A PC,
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Before I purchased this book, I was spending sleepless nights trying to get information on building my own computer. It seemed that everywhere I went, had "some" information that was useful to me, but I never had the feeling that I knew everything I needed. After reading this book, that all changed, and I felt 100% confident that I was ready to do what I orinally set out to do. This book has everything you need to know. There is no way you can go wrong. Althought this book does not talk about SATA hard drives, SLI, or even Athlon 64 processors, this book gives you enough basic knowledge to figure out those things with relative ease. Great book !!
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Get What you Want, Learn a Lot, Don't Really Expect to Save.,
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When I picked up this book I was very skeptical. The title says Save a Buck and Learn a Lot. My experience is that this is at best only half true. I was just down at WalMart looking at their computer offerings. What you can get from them at around $500 is more, faster hardware than you can buy as components - not even considering the assembly effort.
Then in first flipping through the book I found a section labeled Will I Save Money by Building My Own System. His answer was maybe. And I think he is right. The WalMart system for instance included a 17" monitor and Windows XP. I've got a bunch of monitors and don't need another, and what if I want to run Linux, why should I pay for XP. Or, I have a computer that died recently. I suspect that it's the motherboard. I could use the case, power supply, CPU of the old system and build a new one much, much cheaper than WalMart. Second, the next system I need is a web server. Having a DVD R/W and a super sound card is absolutely useless. This machine's going into a closet and will sit there serving web pages, and hopefully not making any noise or recording any movies. On the other hand, it needs more memory and CPU power than the WalMart machine. The second part of the title says Learn a Lot. And here he is absolutely correct. Following his instructions to build a PC, perhaps from an old one that you might get at the thrift store, you can put into it just exactly what you need. And if it ever breaks, you won't hesitate tearing into it to fix or upgrade it. This is a good book to take the mystery out of building a PC.
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This is an excellent overview of the process of building a PC, but it lacks sufficient detail to be a stand-alone cookbook. (I used it in conjunction with Robert and Barbara Thompson's "Building the Perfect PC." The two books together are a good combination.)
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Assembling a PC is rather easy, but how do you choose which components to purchase and assemble? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Device Manager, Best Buy, Home Edition, Update Driver, Button Mouse, Installing The Mainboard In The Case, Intel Pentium, Universal Serial Bus, Multimedia Audio Controller, File Action View Help, Tue Dec, Win Modems New!
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Assembling a PC is rather easy, but how do you choose which components to purchase and assemble? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Device Manager, Best Buy, Home Edition, Update Driver, Button Mouse, Installing The Mainboard In The Case, Intel Pentium, Universal Serial Bus, Multimedia Audio Controller, File Action View Help, Tue Dec, Win Modems New!
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- Upgrading and Repairing PCs (17th Edition) by Scott Mueller on page 13, page 211, and Back Matter
- Upgrading and Repairing Networks by Craig Zacker in Back Matter
- Installation Guide by Sun Microsystems Inc. on page 179
- Upgrading and Repairing Networks (5th Edition) by Scott Mueller in Back Matter
- A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide by Michael Meyers on page 211
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