<p style="margin:0px">For 25 years, <i>Upgrading and Repairing PCs</i> has been the world’s #1 guide to PC hardware: The single source for reliable information on troubleshooting and fixing problems, adding hardware, optimizing performance, and building new PCs. Now, better than ever, this 22nd edition offers beefed-up coverage of the newest hardware innovations and maintenance techniques, plus more than two hours of new DVD video.</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">Scott Mueller delivers practical answers about PC processors, mother-boards, buses, BIOSes, memory, SSD and HDD storage, video, audio, I/O, input devices, networks, Internet connectivity, power, and much more. You’ll find the industry’s best coverage of diagnostics, testing, and repair–plus cutting-edge discussions of improving performance via overclocking and other techniques.</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">Mueller has taught thousands of professionals in person and millions more through his books and videos–<i>nobody knows more about keeping PCs running perfectly</i>. Whether you’re a professional technician, a small business owner trying to save money, or a home PC enthusiast, this is the only PC hardware book you need!</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px"><b>NEW IN THIS EDITION</b> </p><ul><li><div style="margin:0px">Detailed information about the Intel Turbo Boost and AMD Turbo Core built-in overclocking technology found in many new processors.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Coverage of the new inexpensive &quot;hybrid&quot; hard drives, combining Solid State Drive (SSD) and magnetic storage technology in the same high-performance drive.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Coverage of the latest USB 3.0 chipsets, drives, and other peripherals.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Coverage of the latest 50Mbps and faster internet connection speeds and the hardware you need to fully take advantage of them.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Coverage of the latest high-performance Solid State Drives (SSDs) and SSD technology.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Technical details about the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS, which is required for motherboards to be able to boot from drives larger than 2TB.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Detailed information about the new 4K physical sectoring advanced format used on the highest capacity hard drives.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Technical details and information about the latest 32nm and 45nm multi-core processors from Intel and AMD.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Detailed information about the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) available as an optional built-in feature in some new processors.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Coverage of the latest motherboard chipsets, including support for SATA 6Gbps.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Coverage of the latest SDXC (Secure Digital Extended Capacity) 4.0 and later high capacity and high performance flash drives.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Detailed information about the 6/8-pin PCI Express graphics power connectors required to support the latest high-end video cards.</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Information about the 80 PLUS standards for highly efficient power supplies, and how this combined with proper power-management settings can save a tremendous amount of energy (and money) each year.</div></li></ul><p style="margin:0px"><b>ON THE DVD</b> </p><p style="margin:0px">Get 2 hours of up-to-the minute, studio-quality how-to videos–all playable on your DVD player or computer! In this edition, Scott Mueller offers true insider information about several of the key components in a PC, including motherboards, solid-state drives, and more.</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">You will see a detailed tour of a modern high-performance motherboard, showing all the components from the processor socket and CPU voltage regulators to the aud