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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne; 4 edition (4 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0072255595
  • ISBN-13: 978-0072255591
  • Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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This visual how-to manual is loaded with photographs and images to help you see exactly how to assemble from scratch--or simply upgrade--your PC easily. Organized in three main sections, this easy-to-follow guide will lead you through making preparations to build your PC, which includes guidance selecting and purchasing the right parts. Next, you’ll learn how to build the actual computer, including internal components, and finally, there’s a section on maintaining and troubleshooting, to help keep your creation on its best behavior.

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  • Highly visual and easy-to-read guide to building or customizing a computer.
    Shows how to build a PC in basic step-by-step instructions, with illustrations to guide you every step of the way.

    Popular Toolbox'inside front cover contains a list of equipment needed to build each project.
    Includes a section on how computers work (Chapter 1, 'First Time Builders'), explaining motherboards, CPUs, RAM, etc. in plain English to help readers understand the intricacies of PCs so they can be better informed builders.

    Also features chapters on installing an operating system and troubleshooting your machine.

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    27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book - Recommended!, 21 April 2001
    By P. Sealy "typecastenterprises" (Bromley, Kent, England) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Build Your Own PC (Paperback)
    This is a brilliant book for a novice computer builder. I am a Mac user who knows virtually nothing about PCs, so I thought it would be a nice idea to try to build one. This book starts from the very very basics, goes through in detail, every part, it's different kinds and ways that they all fit together. Once you have familirised yourself with all the parts the book then goes through a step by step build of three computers. I would highly recommend this book. The only down side is that all the pictures are black and white, and the quality of some of the pictures is very very poor. Well worth the Amazon price though. I read it from cover to cover, I have now bought all the parts and am ready to build. I will keep the book for reference.
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    18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars very useful..., 21 Sep 2003
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    This review is from: Build Your Own PC (Paperback)
    I had very little knowledge of PC building when I bought this book but I managed to build 2 full systems just by following the instructions. Both the AMD and Pentium walkthroughs are as accurate as they can be (not 100% because all PC componenets vary slightly). Also explains how to install an OS for those that have never done this before.
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    32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
    2.0 out of 5 stars Some knowledge can be more dangerous than none!!, 12 April 2001
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    This review is from: Build Your Own PC (Paperback)
    This book is very basic and makes a whole load of generalisations. The illustrations are of very poor quality, and you'd be as well off without most of them. Also the book requires a bit of updating. It does provide some useful bits of info, but when you actually go to build your PC, you find out that you've missed out on loads of info...my advice if you buy this book, buy components with good manuals!
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