Building Your Own PC: Buying & Assembling with Confidence

by Arnie Lee

This guide focuses on what's involved in building Pentium-based personal computers for Windows 95. It's a great resource for an engineering-minded 12-year-old, a technical student, or anyone who wants... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557553556
• ISBN13: 9781557553553
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Abacus Software
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Easy to follow step by step no frills

I liked this book for my needs. I bought it four years ago. Rather than show you everything under the sun it shows you how to assemble the computer and install the OS. It even shows how to format the hard drive with the system. This is good info if you want to install Windows 3.1. I admit DOS and the fdisk are dead now days but it is still used for Windows ME and Windows 98. This was the only book that went right to the nuts and bolts of building a PC with out a lot of BS to read through.I admit that with Windows XP you just need to load it into the CD ROM drive and let the OS install with out any DOS line prompt commands but this book would still work for building a PC today. The slave and master settings and jumper settings are still used today.

Just seemed to be lacking in places

Most of the material was very current in this latest edition. However, as a PC building novice, even I noticed the glaring omissions (such as how to install an internal modem) Clearly AGP will the standard for video cards in the not-so-distant future, but not enough was said about them. I was happy to see PII processors discussed, but I could have lived without seeing the same pictures and text all over again. Overall, pretty thorough, but I feel like I need other books and materials to fill in gaps.

I loved it!

the book was easy to fallow and i built my self a new k6233. where is the petium2 book? I can't wait

Easy to understand, good book

I thought this was a good book, well written and well organized. It doesn't beat around the bush, rather it gets right to the point and keeps the book small, around 120 pages. Easy to follow the instructions. I would recommend this book.

Clear, step-by-step instructions

Apparently the book is being revised constantly to keep up with technology. I first bought the book 2 years ago and it was outdated by 1998. So, I went to get a different book and found that this same title has been completely updated for 1998 technology. I especially liked the new paper that lays flat on my workbench, plus the new sharper photos. This book is the best I have ever seen. I note that it is in the eighth printing and have learned that in the ninth printing the author is adding the technology for the last half of 1998.