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Overview

If you’ve dreamed about having a customized multimedia PC or one tricked out for your favorite games, build your own and make your dreams come true! Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies makes it easy.

Not only is building your own PC a really rewarding project, it can also save you a nice chunk of cash. This step-by-step guide helps you decide what you need, teaches you what all those computer terms mean, and tells you exactly how to put the pieces together. It shows you:

  • What tools you need (not as many as you might think!)
  • All about operating systems
  • How to install CD and DVD drives
  • The scoop on sound and video, and how to put a sound system together from start to finish
  • How to connect a monitor and install a modem
  • All about setting up and configuring the hard drive
  • Secrets for securing your system, and more

Included is a bonus DVD showing you how to install the motherboard, CPU, RAM, ports, hard drive, video and sound cards, a DVD drive, and more. With Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, you can have the computer you want plus the satisfaction of doing it yourself!

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780470196113
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/27/2009
  • Edition description: Book and DVD
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 246,786
  • Series: For Dummies Series
  • Product dimensions: 9.84 (w) x 8.04 (h) x 0.82 (d)

Meet the Author

Mark L. Chambers has been building, customizing, and repairing PCs for over 20 years for himself and clients. As a consultant, he helps everyday folks update, maintain, and troubleshoot PCs.

Table of Contents

Pt. I Preparations and Planning 9

Ch. 1 A Screwdriver Is All You Need 11

Ch. 2 What Type of PC Should I Build? 23

Pt. II Assembling the Basics 39

Ch. 3 Building the Foundation: The Case and Motherboard 41

Ch. 4 A Bag of Chips: Adding RAM and a CPU 61

Ch. 5 Installing Your Ports, Mouse, and Keyboard 77

Ch. 6 Adding Video Hardware 93

Ch. 7 Installing Your Hard Drive and Other Storage Devices 115

Ch. 8 Choosing and Installing an Operating System 135

Pt. III Adding the Fun Stuff 151

Ch. 9 Installing an Optical Drive 153

Ch. 10 Let Your PC Rock! 169

Ch. 11 Modems and the Call of Broadband 187

Pt. IV Advanced PC Options 207

Ch. 12 So You Want to Add a IAN? 209

Ch. 13 Input and Output: Scanners, Cameras, and Printers 223

Ch. 14 Building a Gaming PC 235

Pt. V The Part of Tens 249

Ch. 15 Ten Tools and Tasks for a Power User's PC 251

Ch. 16 Ten Important Assembly Tips 257

Ch. 17 T en Ways to Maintain Your PC 263

Ch. 18 Ten PC Pitfalls to Avoid Like the Plague 269

Pt. VI Appendixes 275

App. A About the DVD 277

App. B The PC Builder's Glossary 279

Index 289

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  • Posted August 25, 2010

    Not really very useful

    This book should be called "Choosing Computer Components for Dummies". The book is reasonably good at explaining what the various components do but it is largely useless for actually assembling your computer. I recently tried to use the book while I was building my first PC with my son. The book was somewhat useful in evaluating components but when it came time to put everything together and install all the software it was useless. The motherboard on a PC is covered with dozens of different places where components can be connected and there was little guidance as to what should be plugged in where. An appendix of what all of the cryptic labels on the motherboard connections mean would have been extremely useful but was nowhere to be found. The book also failed when it came time to install the bios and various drivers. I was expecting some sort of guidelines as to what should be installed first, second, third, etc. and how to set up the bios configuration. The book essentially glossed over all of that and we had to figure it out by trial and error.

    We ended up with a working computer but in the end we got 90% of our information from the internet and this book was largely a waste of money.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 30, 2009

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    A very good book for people that do and don't know how to build computers.

    You should buy this book I liked it alot and I'm an experience IT Professional and I recommed it to my friends and anyone that wants to build computers and loves computers.

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