Sat, 03 Feb 2007
Building PC's
R.B.Thompson, B.F. Thompson,
Building the Perfect PC, 2nd Edition,
O'Reilly
This is an update of the excellent first edition
where component lists are brought up to date, and
there's some additionl comment.
If you didn't see the original, the format is
to set out a number of different projects (Media
PC, Gaming PC, SOHO server etc.) and help you
build them by first selecting components, explaining
why they were selected, and then taking you through
construction with the aid of colour pictures. Along
the way there are interesting remarks in sidebars.
At the start of this edition there's also a very
interesting discussion about LCD vs CRT monitors.
If you thought that LCD was a superior technical
solution as far as showing the screen is concerned
you'd be wrong, and CRT's will be gone soon.
Interesting, and somewhat annoying. It's a bit like
looking up train timetables from the early 1900's
and finding that journey times were faster then in
some countries - a bit of a joke and a bit of a con.
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