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Building a PC: Installing Fans

The inside of a PC can get pretty warm, and that can be very bad for your equipment. A simple fan is a cheap and simple way to get some of that heat out of there.

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Building a PC: Connecting Peripherals

You have done it! Your PC is done, we just need to hook everything up to it and turn it on.

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Building a PC: Closing the Case

With everything inside the case and hooked up, we can close our brand new PC.

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Building a PC: Connecting the Case’s Front Panel Ports – USB, Firewire, and eSATA

The extra-convenient places to plug things in on the front of your case won’t work unless you hook them up correctly inside your PC.

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Building a PC: Connecting the Case’s Switches and Audio

Even the most stripped, budget, case has a couple lights and switches to hook up. These are tiny little wires that go on tiny little pins. The good news is you’re almost done building your PC.

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Building a PC: Connecting the Hard Disk and Burner

Our PC has taken shape; in this article we connect the drives.

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Building a PC: Power Connections for the Motherboard and Fans

Finally, the end is in sight as we begin to wire everything together: it is time to get your motherboard some juice!

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Building a PC: Installing Graphics and Other Expansion Cards

Expansion card installation is pretty straightforward, which is good: it is the most frequently performed upgrade, in addition to being an important step of a PC build.

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Building a PC: Installing a Hard Drive

Hard Drive installation; ironically, not that hard.

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Building a PC: Installing an Optical Device

Whether you are jamming the ancient CD-ROM from your old PC in there or you have a sleek new Blu-Ray burner, they all go in pretty much the same.

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