Beginner - Intermediate Level Users.
Includes Web Site.
This book is a comprehensive guide to buying, building, upgrading, and repairing Intel-based PCs. The book supplies advice on how to choose optimum systems and components, focusing on teaching you how to evaluate alternatives rather than on recommending specific products. Loaded with practical, hands-on information about how to install, configure, and troubleshoot specific components, this guide also contains numerous tables, making it the perfect reference book.
The topical organisation lets novices and professionals alike consult the book for the specifications and steps they need to perform discrete tasks. In addition to addressing the fundamentals and providing general tips on working with PCs, the book includes chapters on motherboards, processors, memory, disks (floppies, hard drives, and optical drives), tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance. The last chapter is a complete case study in building a PC from components.
Supported by a website, the book is a compact guide, accessible to the ordinary reader and invaluable for the seasoned professional.
