Repairing and Upgrading Your PC

Choosing Components

As much as we would like to recommend specific components by brand name and model number in this book, those recommendations would be outdated soon after the book was printed. To avoid this timeliness problem, we maintain online forums where you can always read about our current recommendations (and those of our expert forum members). Before you buy components to repair or upgrade your system, visit our forums at:

http://forums.hardwareguys.com

SEARCH BEFORE YOU ASK

It's best to search before you ask on the forums. The same questions are often asked (and answered) repeatedly, so please spend a few minutes browsing and searching the forums before you post a question. Chances are good that the search engine will locate an existing answer to your specific question among the thousands of posts. If not, post your question, but make sure to give as as much specific information as possible. The more pertinent information you provide with your question, the more likely the answers are to be fast, complete, and accurate.