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Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies

Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies

Product Type: Book

Product Price: $29.99

Manufacturer: For Dummies

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Description

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:

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.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-30
Summary: "Build Your Own PC"

Excellent. This book teaches me everything I ever wanted to know about desktop PCs and not just how to build my own PC.

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-06-22
Summary: "A definite "meh""

This book is the definition of mediocre.

I suppose I might have expected a little too much from a "For Dummies" book, but it does seem to suffer from an odd misunderstanding of audience. As another reviewer mentioned, entire pages are dedicated to things like plugging a device into a USB drive. If you're the kind of person who can't figure out which way the USB drive goes, building your own computer is never even going to occur to you.

Then, oddly enough, the sample computer he builds over the course of the book is a super high-end, top-of-the-line, extreme gaming computer. Huh? There's even an entire chapter dedicated to modding your gaming computer with glow lights and paint jobs. Anyone who might ever even consider adding lighted fans and two video cards to their computer is not going to read about it in a "For Dummies" book. And if they did, they'd probably be pretty annoyed to discover that the instructions for "Configuring SLI for Multiple Video Cards" literally read, "Install the bridge cables between the two video cards. Reboot your computer." Really? The one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work here- you should not spend equal page space explaining the really simple and the really complex things.

Meanwhile, the average reader who just wants to build a mid-range computer is left scratching his head, wondering if he really needs 4 GB of RAM.

On the plus side, the book gives a pretty good, basic overview of all the different components that go into a computer, and the specifications that define them. Unfortunately it doesn't do this in a context that makes any sense, so you don't come away with any insight on how to actually choose good, compatible components that suit your needs. While it's a good start to understanding the inner workings of a computer, it doesn't actually leave you in a position to pick up a screwdriver and start assembling your own computer from the ground up.

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-04-25
Summary: "Dumb Book"

This book is written for a true dummy, someone who doesn't have a clue about computers. Two thirds of a chapter are devoted to installing a mouse and keyboard. It spends a page and a half explaining, in bullet points with enormous margins, how to install a microphone, including how to clip it to your shirt if it is a clip microphone, set it on the desk if it is a boom microphone, or peal of the protector and stick it to your computer if it is sticky microphone--"but not over an opening you might have to use." I mean, this book was written for my mother. My mother is actually pretty smart, but she would never dream of building a computer. In fact, my mother would give me the same impressed look and words of encouragement whether I told her I was building a computer or building a space ship. I could start talking about installing a CPU or a plasma hyperdrive and she would give me a pat on the back and make a soup and sandwich for me while I worked on it--and have no idea why anyone would do such a thing. She has a hard enough time thinking of a reason to use a computer. Who on earth is going to want to build a computer, but not know how to attach the keyboard?

Not only is this book filled with huge margins and dumb instructions written for people who probably don't really use computer much, it leaves out the answers I'm looking for. For instance, I bought a Corsair 800D case. It comes with six fan slots. There are only two chassis fan power connections and a CPU fan power connection on the motherboard. So, how do I connect the other fans. Or I wanted to know what determines the boot order of SATA drives. I'll have to look the first question up on the web one day in the distant future when my computer actually needs six fans. The second one is a dumb question--the SATA connections are numbered and the the slot determines the boot order. But this is the kind of dumb question a person building a computer for the first time is going to ask--not whether to try to stick a boom microphone to their shirt or set it on the desk.

The one way this book might be useful is calling to mind that there are at least three types of microphones that one could shop for--but that is what browsing products and reviews on Amazon is for.

I never bother to send books that were mistakes back to Amazon. But I may send this one back because I don't feel like it will sit on the bookshelf waiting to be referred to one day, or waiting to impress a visitor, or even that it would make a good gift--"here you go mom, two books, the first on is just in case you want to install a photon torpedo tube on your battle station and the second one in case you want to add some random access memory to your ATX mobo. And here's a lump of coal to play with in case you get board with the books." This book is such a waste of space that I want to throw it away. But I can't bring myself to throw away a $20 book. So, Amazon, if I make it by a post office in the next 15 days or so--and happen to have the book, box, and mailing label all with me at the time--this book is going back.

This is the first and last time I will ever buy one of these books "For Dummies."

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-04-24
Summary: "Useful but flawed"

I was excited to find this book when I decided to build my own gaming desktop...it was up to date and full of good reviews. This is 6 months down the road and I'm typing this on the very computer it helped me build. I hadn't ever built a computer before and I didn't have any experts in person who I could call over to help in tough moments. I do owe quite a bit to this book and I don't want to overlook that, however there are flaws. I'm pretty sure that this book alone wouldn't be enough for everybody.

My biggest complaint is that the book tries to not alienate people with "techno babble". Granted, I bought a "for dummies" book...I knew it wasn't going to read like a motherboard manual, but come on...we're talking about building a freaking computer here, you'd be foolish not to expect some "techno babble". You're better off having to google some technical terms than being left in the dark entirely!

One moment that had me freaked out was connecting the buttons and lights of the case to the motherboard. The wires are all tiny and only are marked by random letters and maybe a + or - symbol...its the kind of thing thats a breeze after you've done it once or twice, but when you are figuring it out on your own with no help at all (the book provided *no* help with this at all...I just reread the section to make sure I didn't miss it the first time around).

The other thing which I can't imagine other people having an easy time with is deciding exactly what to buy. What I did (and anybody interested in buying this book could do) is go to a well populated, well-informed forum and ask what people there would recommend in a certain price range. It would be nice though if the book would get a bit more in depth with this. I understand that books can't stay up to date with something that evolves as quickly as computer components, but there is basic advice that doesn't change nearly as quickly and overall rules that don't really change at all.

I would still recommend this book to people because at least at the time I bought it there wasn't anything else out there that was quite as useful. It's definitely worth buying...just don't assume it's all you'll need to build your first computer if you're walking into this clueless and need handholding the entire way.

3 1/2 stars

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-02-03
Summary: "Build tour own PC"

The book does cover the very basics, however I was looking for something that pretained to the newest products on the market, and how to assemble them !!!