- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (Sep 30 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0072226374
- ISBN-13: 978-0072226379
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.7 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 540 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,031,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- See Complete Table of Contents
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Product Description
Turbocharge your game play with help from this one-of-a-kind guide. Filled with tweaks for Windows, in-game tips, and ways to improve PC performance, this book will show you how to step up video, sound, and storage features in a matter of minutes and be on your way to the ultimate gaming experience.
Book Info
Your guide to creating the perfect gaming PC. To meet the demanding requirements of today's popular PC games, you need to know how to supercharge your PC for maximum game performance. Helpful hints and tips are included. Softcover.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
Modern games are among the most demanding applications you can run on a PC. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Modern games are among the most demanding applications you can run on a PC. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
The title says it all,
By "eridanis" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Extreme Gamer's PC: A Gamer's Guide To Ultimate PC Performance (Paperback)
Too bad Mr. Jugo is so enamored with his A+ certification, and so ready to call people names, that he couldn't read the title of the book. It is obviously a book for gamers, directed toward those who have not paid money to be trained in the tips laid out in this book.This is a very clearly-written book that clearly explains the process of assembling a PC that will serve gamers well. Mr. Case does not talk down to his readers; it's as if he's there right next to you, handing you the screwdriver as you work.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for the PC gamer,
By JazzMo (So Cal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Extreme Gamer's PC: A Gamer's Guide To Ultimate PC Performance (Paperback)
I think Mr.Jugo is bit off the mark with his review and here's why. I'm your average computer game enthusiast and have been playing games since the invention of the Atari 2600 game system. I have been playing games that are on the cutting edge of current PC gaming but on a system that is a little behind the curve. When I built my first system using Loyd's first book, "Building the Ultimate Game PC " I had one heck of a system. Now with Loyd's second book, I can assure you that I not only didn't have to build a new system, I was able to do several "tweaks" and squeeze out an extra 200 pts, with respect to my benchmarks. So in a nutshell, this book helped me to understand the new 3d graphics cards, and how they do the magic that they do, and keep my present machine running at optimum levels. Thanks Loyd.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Vapid, disappointing inept instruction from a complete l4m3r,
By Leonard J (Kentucky United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Extreme Gamer's PC: A Gamer's Guide To Ultimate PC Performance (Paperback)
I read this book ... for a couple of good hours, hoping to see if I could find some interesting operating system tweaks to speed up my system performance, but the good stuff I read about was painfully obvious to me anyway (like VCACHE and video card tweaks). The hardware section is a complete joke, who refers to serial ports as "game" ports?? Only a complete l4m3r! Serial ports have 9 pins, REAL game ports are 15 pins! A lot of hardware terminology is hit and miss, and if you're a certified A+ tech, this book really states a lot of obvious stuff you'd already know.As it stands, I can only recommend this book to gamers who want to make a nice PC for gaming and tweak their OS for optimal speed if they don't know how to do so, but for true PC enthusiasts and power users, a subscription to Maximum PC or forking out some extra money for "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 14th Edition by Scott Mueller is a much better investment (U&RPCs has ALL the info this book has, and much much much more).
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Computers & Internet > Games & Strategy Guides > Strategy Guides
- Books > Computers & Internet > Games & Strategy Guides > Video Games
- Books > Computers & Internet > Hardware > PCs
- Books > Computers & Internet > Microsoft > Operating Systems
- Books > Computers & Internet > Operating Systems
- Books > Computers & Internet > Software
- Books > Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Video & Electronic Games
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
