Customer Review: This is a good thing to get together with "Building your own pc" or something similar. The book gives great advice on how to choose the right components based on years of experience. It is like "cliff notes" for getting the right stuff and what to watch out for. There may be something better but... more info
Customer Review: Great explanations and diagrams packed into a relatively short book. I was able to read most of this in a couple evenings, yet I felt I learned quite a bit, for example the difference between a controller and adapter and why the IDE hard drive standard was considered an advance over ESDI and ST506.... more info