A Complete Practical Treatise PC by Richard Murdoch Montgomery (.ePUB)
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A Complete Practical Treatise of PC Assemblage: The Complete and Deep Manual: Volume I — Components and the Reasoning of Their Selection by Richard Murdoch Montgomery
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Overview: This manual is conceived as three volumes, each self-contained yet continuous with the others, so that a reader may begin where his need is greatest and still find the argument whole. The division follows the natural life of a machine, from the choosing of its parts, through their physical union, to the longer reckoning of living with what one has built. The present volume, the first, concerns the components and the reasoning of their selection. It asks what each organ of the computer actually does, how its performance may honestly be measured, and by what disciplined judgement a builder decides what to buy, treating the PC Assemblage, the graphics card, memory, storage, the motherboard, and the power supply not as isolated purchases but as parties to a single system. This book is for the beginner who suspects that the language of PC hardware was designed by people paid per acronym. It is for the gamer who has learned that average frame rate is a charming liar when frame times misbehave. It is for the professional who wants a quiet, reliable workstation without purchasing a shrine. It is for the student, the programmer, the video editor, the AI experimenter, the researcher, the family archivist, the homeserver eccentric of harmless disposition, and the office worker who simply wants the machine to stop behaving like a bored civil servant. The apprentice need not know electronics, computer architecture, or operating-system theory in advance. The examiner with prior knowledge may find some early explanations elementary, but perhaps not useless; elementary things, when neglected, produce many advanced misfortunes. The experienced builder may read for structure, checklists, and the refusal to worship specifications in isolation. The curious companion who merely wants to buy wisely will still profit, because buying is assembling by proxy, with fewer screws and more trust.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices
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