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    Building the Perfect PC
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    Building the Perfect PC

    By Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson

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    About this ebook

    This popular Build-It-Yourself (BIY) PC book covers everything you want to know about building your own system: Planning and picking out the right components, step-by-step instructions for assembling your perfect PC, and an insightful discussion of why you'd want to do it in the first place. Most big brand computers from HP, Dell and others use lower-quality components so they can meet their aggressive pricing targets. But component manufacturers also make high-quality parts that you can either purchase directly, or obtain through distributors and resellers. Consumers and corporations alike are opting to build rather than buy PCs to ensure high quality and compatibility.

    The new edition of Building the Perfect PC shows you how to construct a variety of top-flight systems with the latest technology, including AMD Socket AM-2 and Intel Core 2 processors, that are Vista- and Linux-ready. The book includes several new options, including:

    • A Budget PC you can build for approximately $350 that offers performance and reliability similar to that of mainstream systems
    • A full-blown media-center system that runs Linux and MythTV or Windows MCE with multiple tuners and HDTV support
    • A fire-breathing high-performance gaming system
    • A fast, low-power, low-heat, low-noise, Small Form Factor system (the size of a shoe box)
    • A low-cost SOHO (small office, home office) server system with a 2 terabyte (2,000 GB) disk subsystem that's suitable for a residential environment rather than a server closet

    Regardless of your technical experience, Building the Perfect PC will guide you through the entire process of building or upgrading your own computer. You'll use the latest top-quality components, including Intel's Core 2 Duo and AMD's Athlon X2 CPUs. And you'll know exactly what's under the hood and how to fix or upgrade your PC, should that become necessary. Not only is the process fun, but the result is often less expensive and always better quality and far more satisfying than anything you could buy off the shelf.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateDec 22, 2006
    ISBN9780596523473
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    Building the Perfect PC
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    Robert Bruce Thompson

    Robert Bruce Thompson is the coauthor of Astronomy Hacks, Building the Perfect PC, and PC Hardware in a Nutshell. Robert built his first computer in 1976 from discrete chips. It had 256 bytes of memory, used toggle switches and LEDs for I/O, ran at less than 1MHz, and had no operating system. Since then, he has bought, built, upgraded, and repaired hundreds of PCs for himself, employers, customers, friends, and clients. Robert reads mysteries and nonfiction for relaxation, but only on cloudy nights. He spends most clear, moonless nights outdoors with his 10-inch Dobsonian reflector telescope, hunting down faint fuzzies, and is currently designing a larger truss-tube Dobsonian (computerized, of course) that he plans to build.

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    • 5/5
      Great book for someone who might want to build a PC to run Windows or Linux. Doesn't cover building a computer to run Mac OS.
    • 4/5
      I thought this book has ok it didn't have all of the best step by step building. But overall this was a good book