Table of Contents

Foreword by Jon Phillips.

1. Planning the PC That’s Right for You.

2. Cases and Power Supplies.

3. CPUs.

4. Motherboards.

5. Memory.

6. Hard Drives.

7 . Optical Drives.

8. Videocards.

9 . Soundcards.

10 . Selecting a Monitor.

11 . Speakers.

12 . External Storage.

13. Buying Hardware Online Safely.

14. Building Your PC.

15. Add RAID to Your Computer.

16. Tweaking Your BIOS Settings.

17. Optimizing Your OS.

18. Create Custom Recovery Disks.

19. Troubleshooting Your Dream Machine.

Index.

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About the Author

Will Smith is the Technical Editor of Maximum PC magazine, the ultimate magazine for PC enthusiasts on the planet. In addition to covering bleeding-edge technology for the magazine, he's also edited the mag's How-To section since its inception, edited two Maximum PC How-To special issues, written innumerable white papers, and once tested so many videocards that he wore out a test PC's AGP slot.