Description

DVD-ROM Comprises 3 hours of new how-to video

 

For greater than 25 years, Upgrading and Repairing PCs has been the sector’s #1 information to PC hardware: The only supply for dependable data on how PCs paintings, troubleshooting and solving issues, including hardware, optimizing efficiency, and construction new PCs. This twenty second adaptation gives beefed-up protection of the latest hardware inventions and upkeep ways, plus greater than hours of latest video.

 

Scott Mueller provides sensible solutions approximately PC processors, mom-forums, buses, BIOSes, reminiscence, SSD and HDD garage, video, audio, networks, Web connectivity, energy, and a lot more. You’ll in finding the trade’s best possible protection of diagnostics, trying out, and service—plus state of the art discussions of making improvements to PC efficiency by way of overclocking and different ways.

 

Mueller has taught heaps of pros in particular person and tens of millions extra thru his books and movies—nobody is aware of extra approximately maintaining PCs working perfectly. Whether or not you’re a certified technician, a small trade proprietor making an attempt to save cash, or a house PC fanatic, that is the one PC hardware e book you want!

 

NEW IN THIS EDITION

  • The latest processors, together with Intel’s recent Center i Haswell processors and AMD’s Kaveri Center processors.
  • Everything you want to grasp in regards to the recent GPU generation from NVIDIA and AMD, together with trends in OpenGL, DirectX, and Mantle.
  • New firmware inventions just like the InSyde BIOS, Again to BIOS buttons, and the entire up to date settings to be had for the latest processors and chipsets.
  • The recent in up to date house networking requirements, from blazing speedy 802.11ac Wi-Fi to HomeGrid and G.hn powerline networking.
  • Ever better garage, way to new applied sciences like helium-stuffed laborious disks, shingled magnetic recording, and Cfast and XQD for flash reminiscence.
  • Emerging interfaces comparable to mSATA, USB 3.1, and M.2
  • Updated protection of establishing PCs from scratch—from opting for and assembling hardware thru BIOS setup and troubleshooting

 

ON THE DVD

 

Get 3 hours of up-to-the minute, studio-high quality how-to movies—all playable for your DVD participant or pc! On this adaptation, Scott Mueller provides a whole seminar on PC troubleshooting, instructing you easy methods to establish and unravel an array of commonplace and now not-so-commonplace PC issues.

From distinctive factors on the entire equipment that are supposed to be a elementary a part of any PC toolkit, to the entire important regulations you will have to observe to securely perform for your PC’s inside elements, in those movies Scott Mueller guarantees you’re supplied with the whole thing you want to grasp to effectively unravel your PC’s issues.

From there, Scott takes you thru a whole disassembly of an All-in-One (AiO) device, appearing simply what you’ll be able to do to stay those specialised methods working easily. After all, there’s a distinctive have a look at as of late’s extremely-speedy cast state disk drives (SSD) and the advantages they create to brand new methods.

This DVD additionally comprises all the nineteenth and twentieth variations of this e book in printable shape, plus in depth technical reference subject material, a complete thesaurus, and extra!

 

“…regularly revised and up to date to replicate the ever-converting PC panorama. A useful resource from my PC restore days, Scott Mueller’s tome is without doubt one of the books that has stayed on my bookshelf
throughout the years.”

—Adam Overa, Coping with Editor, Tom’s Hardware