Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies Book/DVD Package

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:
* 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.

CONTENTS:

Introduction.

  Part I: Preparations and Planning.

  
Chapter 1: A Screwdriver Is All You Need.

  
Chapter 2: What Type of PC Should I Build?

  Part II: Assembling the Basics.

  
Chapter 3: Building the Foundation: The Case and Motherboard.

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

  
Chapter 5: Installing Your Ports, Mouse, and Keyboard.

  
Chapter 6: Adding Video Hardware.

  
Chapter 7: Installing Your Hard Drive and Other Storage Devices.

  
Chapter 8: Choosing and Installing an Operating System.

  Part III: Adding the Fun Stuff.

  
Chapter 9: Installing an Optical Drive.

  
Chapter 10: Let Your PC Rock!

  
Chapter 11: Modems and the Call of Broadband.

  Part IV: Advanced PC Options.

  
Chapter 12: So You Want to Add a LAN?

  
Chapter 13: Input and Output: Scanners, Cameras, and Printers.

  
Chapter 14: Building a Gaming PC.

  Part V: The Part of Tens.

  
Chapter 15: Ten Tools and Tasks for a Power User’s PC.

  
Chapter 16: Ten Important Assembly Tips.

  
Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Maintain Your PC.

  
Chapter 18: Ten PC Pitfalls to Avoid Like the Plague.

  Part VI: Appendixes.

  
Appendix A: About the DVD.

  
Appendix B: The PC Builder’s Glossary.

  Index.