Welcome to Celtnet's How to Buld your Own PC Page — This is the seventh page in a series of articles that takes you through the main components of a PC, how they work and how you can put them together to either build or upgrade your own PC. This is an illustrated guide and by following these instructions you can learn how to build, repair and upgrade any PC. If you would prefer not to wade through several web pages, the entire series is avaialble as the How to build a PC eBook, sales of which go to support the One Milion People Charity Campaign. Here you will get basic instructions as to how you can upgrade and improve your PC.

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Building your PC:
Upgrading your PC

Introduction

In the earlier parts of these series of articles:

Part 1 Building your own PC: Introduction. An introduction to the tools you'll need.
Part 2 Building your own PC: The Main Components. An introduction to the main components of a PC.
Part 3 Building your own PC: Getting Started. An introduction to the main components used in the build.
Part 4 Building your own PC: Assembling and inserting the Motherboard. Guide for how to put the motherboard together.
Part 5 Building your own PC: Installing the Internal Drives. Installing and Cabling the Internal Drives.
Part 6 Building your own PC: Installing internal cards and case cables. An introduction to the tools you'll need.
Part 7 Building your own PC: Installing Fans and Configuration. Guide to Installing fans and configuring your PC.
Part 8 Building your own PC: Upgrading your PC. A breif guide to configuring your PC.

We've gone through the entire process of how to build your own PC from scratch, including guides and histories to the main components of a PC and which elements you need to think about when buying your components. I've even told you how to use my eBay misspelling tool to source cheap components on eBay. In this final article in the series I talk a little about upgrading your PC.

In essence, the process of upgrading a single component is very simple to the mechanism of installing that component in the first place (except that you will have to remove the old component in the first place and to do this simply reverse the installation process. As a result I'm not going to go into great detail as to how you should go about upgrating any of the components for your PC.

What I will provide (in the table below) is a link to the location of the installation instructions for every component used in the build of this PC. Simply use these instructions as a basis for how to install any component you need when upgrading your own PC.

Location of Installation Instructions
Installing the CPU	Installing IDE Hard Drives
Installing CPU Fan	Installing SATA Hard Drives
Installing Memory Modules	Installing the Graphics Card
Changing the Back-plane Insert	Installing the IDE Modem Card
Installing the Motherboard in the Case	Installing the Case Fans
Installing DVD/CD Drives	Join the Mailing List
Installing a Floppy Drive

Conclusion

With any luck you should be able to use the table given above to locate the instructions for installing the particular component that you want to add to or upgrade in your own PC. This should cover just about any peripheral you wish (for and add-in card such as an ethernet card, firewire card or anything else) simply use the instructions for installing the graphics card or the modem.

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Building Your PC

Getting Started
The Main Components
Gettin Started on the Build
Assembling and Installing the Motherboard
Installing the Internal Drives
Installing Internal Cards and Case Cables
Installing Fans and Configuring
Upgrading your PC
Operating Systems and Software
Free PC Software
Open Source Software

Main PC Components

Case
Central Processing Unit
CD and DVD
Fans
Floppy Disk
Graphics Card
Keyboard and Mouse
Motherboard
Network Cards
Network Cards2
Monitor
Printer
Power Supply Unit
Sound Card

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