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Last modified: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 

 
Refers to objects that you can actually touch, like disks, disk drives, display screens, keyboards, printers, boards, and chips. In contrast, software is untouchable. Software exists as ideas, concepts, and symbols, but it has no substance.

Books provide a useful analogy. The pages and the ink are the hardware, while the words, sentences, paragraphs, and the overall meaning are the software. A computer without software is like a book full of blank pages -- you need software to make the computer useful just as you need words to make a book meaningful.

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Building Your Own PC 
What hard-core techies and companies like Dell and Compaq have been doing for years is what any computer user can learn how to do - build a computer from scratch. Let SE take you on a stroll through the park and ease the pain of building a DIY PC.

PC Mechanic - online guide to computer hardware 
Contains overviews, purchasing and installation information for PC motherboards, memory, drives, expansion cards, and power supplies. Also contains links to companies and manufacturers and PC hardware related links.

System optimization information page 
Contains information about system optimization of PC hardware, and benchmark comparisons of hundreds of different computer systems.

Tom's Hardware and Performance Guide 
Provides performance, news, and information on mainboards, RAM, BIOS, hard drives, chipsets, CPU, and video.

Anand's Hardware Tech page
Offers hardware, software, and gaming reviews as well as programming information and links to related sites.

Hardware reviews and news
Contains links to articles for sound cards, large monitors, video cards, scanners, tablets and digitizers, and electronic storage technology.

Hardware Reviews and News
Provides ongoing reviews of hardware and maintains a database of past reviews.

Maximum Hardware - Computer Hardware Performance Site
Offers a collection of up-to-date information relevant to computer hardware performance. The site includes product information and news, a BIOS upgrade guide, performance reports, links to related sites, information about 3D games, and articles on video accelerators, motherboards, and overclocking.

PC Hardware Discussion Forum
Offers PC enthusiasts a chance to communicate about hardware issues.

PC hardware product ratings surveys
Contains survey results for several hardware products including modems, motherboards, and monitors .Included are complete survey details and a Top 10 product list.

Physical Installation Procedures
Covers procedures that are related to the physical installation of hardware devices. This page is from "The PC Guide."

The View Web site
The View site provides hardware reviews and news.

WebShopper
Computer hardware and software buyer's guide with helpful product-related articles and recommendations.

Yahoo!'s computer hardware page
Yahoo!'s directory of computer hardware.

Yahoo!'s hardware companies page
Yahoo!'s directory of hardware companies.

Yahoo!'s personal computer hardware page
Yahoo!'s directory of personal computer hardware.

Escape From Hardware Hell
A comprehensive portal for help with everything hardware.

Hardware basics
Contains basic information on how IBM compatible computers work. Includes photographs and descriptions of disk drives, UPS, the power supply, connectors, expansion cards, peripherals, and motherboards.

Hardware Central
Detailed test reports on the latest desktop and laptop computers. Plus news on trend-setting products just coming into the pipeline.

Hardware help links
Many links to sites containing hardware information.

HardwareCentral
Resource site offering news and information about PC hardware elements. Includes timely feature articles and sections on optimization and troubleshooting.

PC hardware FAQ
Contains a collection of FAQs related to PC hardware.

Comprehensive PC reference, troubleshooting, care and optimization information.
Over 500,000 words of original text covering all the major components of the modern PC. Extensive information on not only what is in a PC, but how it works. Troubleshooting step-by-step for hundreds of typical problems. Dozens of optimization techniques and tips.

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