Build It. Fix It. Own It: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Upgrading a PC

Build It. Fix It. Own It: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Upgrading a PC
by Paul McFedries

Build It. Fix It. Own It: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Upgrading a PC
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Author: Paul McFedries
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-29
ISBN: 0789738279
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Que
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like most things you save alot of money when you do things yourself so i decided to get this book so i could repair a computer i had. i ended up buying another computer from dell, but luckily i got a extended warranty. cause less than a year after buying the dell it broke down. Im hopping to go with a self built computer next time.

Summary of Build It. Fix It. Own It: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Upgrading a PC

BUILD IT. FIX it. OWN IT.

A Beginner?s Guide to Building and Upgrading a PC

 

Build It. Fix It. Own It. is the ultimate beginner?s guide to building and fixing your own PC. With a friendly, knowledgeable tone, this book shows the beginning PC builder everything he or she needs to know to build a computer or upgrade an existing one.

We step you through the parts that lurk inside a PC, from the motherboard and power supply to the CPU, memory, hard drive, video card, sound card, and networking hardware. In each case, you will learn how the hardware works, what it does, what types of hardware are available, and what to look for when buying the hardware.

Then we walk you step-by-step though a series of PC building projects. We show you how to build five different types of PC: a basic business PC, a home theater PC, a high-performance PC, a killer gaming PC, and a budget PC. And if building a new PC from scratch isn?t in your budget, we show you how to resurrect  an old PC by swapping out a few key components.

When you have your PC built and running, we show you how to set up a wireless network and the BIOS and maintain your new rig.

 

Build It. Fix It. Own It. is the ultimate PC builder?s guide, even if you?ve never ventured inside a PC case before!

 

Author Bio

Paul McFedries is one of the industry?s most well known and respected technical writers and is a passionate computer tinkerer. He is the author of more than 70 computer books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. His recent titles include the Sams Publishing books Windows Vista Unleashed and Windows Home Server Unleashed and the Que Publishing books Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista, Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007, Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus, and Microsoft Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries. Paul also is the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website devoted to tracking new words and phrases as they enter the English language.

 

Category     Hardware

Covers         PC Hardware

User Level    Beginner?Intermediate

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