<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Other Resources on Building Linux PCs</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Unix Hardware Buyer HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Software to go with your hardware" HREF="software.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Unix Hardware Buyer HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="software.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="links" ></A >13. Other Resources on Building Linux PCs</H1 ><P >The <A HREF="http://www.pctechguide.com/" TARGET="_top" >PC Tech Guide</A > offers pretty comprehensive descriptions of PC hardware technologies.</P ><P >The <A HREF="http://hawks.ha.md.us/hardware/" TARGET="_top" >Caveat Emptor</A > guide has an especially good section on evaluating monitor specifications. </P ><P >Anthony Olszewski's <A HREF="http://www.computercraft.com/docs/pcbuild.html" TARGET="_top" > Assembling A PC</A > is an excellent guide to the perplexed. Not Linux-specific.</P ><P ><A HREF="http://www.sysdoc.pair.com/" TARGET="_top" >Tom's Hardware Guide</A > covers many hardware issues exhaustively. It is especially good about CPU chips and motherboards. Full of ads and slow-loading graphics, though.</P ><P >The <A HREF="http://www.sysopt.com" TARGET="_top" >System Optimization Site</A > has many links to other worthwhile sites for hardware buyers.</P ><P >Christopher B. Browne has a page on <A HREF="http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxvars.html#VARS" TARGET="_top" >Linux VARs</A > that build systems. He also recommends the <A HREF="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/VAR-HOWTO.html" TARGET="_top" >Linux VAR HOWTO</A >.</P ><P >Jeff Moe has a <A HREF="http://www.verinet.com/pc/" TARGET="_top" >Build Your Own PC</A > page. It's more oriented towards building from parts than this one. Less technical depth in most areas, but better coverage of some including RAM, soundcards and motherboard installation. Features nifty and helpful graphics, one of the better graphics-intensive pages I've seen. However, the hardware-selection advice is out of date.</P ><P >The <A HREF="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO" TARGET="_top" >Linux Hardware Database</A > .</P ><P >The <A HREF="http://www.silentpcreview.com/" TARGET="_top" >Silent PC Reviews</A > site has lots of good material on building quiet PCs.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="software.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Software to go with your hardware</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >