The Anandtech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware

By Anand Lal Shimpi

Aimed at intermediate to advanced level PC gamers, who want to improve their PC's performance, this text covers all contemporary advances in PC hardware technology. It helps the reader understand the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789726262
• ISBN13: 9780789726261
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Que Pub
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This book was great, it explained the workings of a computer more in depth but was easy to understand. It helped me learn many things about a computer that i wouldn't have known otherwise.

The perfect AnandTech companion

This book is perfect for bringing moderate PC users up to speed with the more detailed and complex issues of PC hardware.While advanced PC types will most likely already understand all the material presented in this book, nowhere have I seen it explained more simply.All-in-all it is the perfect companion to AnandTech.com. Anyone who has read this book will be able to understand all the issues discussed on the website with ease.

Let me be perfectly frank...

This is a book for beginners. Every disgruntled reviewer here is a techie who reads hardware websites and UNDERSTANDS them! They didn't like the book because they didn't find anything new in it that they didn't already know. Despite the fact that Anand has very plainly said on his website that this is a book for beginners and isn't for his regular readers (unless they were lost). Of course they didn't listen and went out and bought the book anyway. If you have trouble understanding computer specs, if the idea of removing your computer's case makes you uncomfortable, if you've never put together your own pc - this book is for you. Honestly you'll be very hard pressed to find a more comprehensive guide to computer hardware that's written in PLAIN ENGLISH.

Worth your hard earned scratch

Very in depth, covers all you need to understand about the very technical way hardware works and skips the things you don't need (or care) to know. This book should hold its value even as hardware technology progresses.