How to Build Your Own PC, Part 2

By PCWorld Video, PCWorld Aug 24, 2010 3:54 PM

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In part two of our three-part series that accompanies our story The Perfect PC: Don't Buy It, Build It (in which we take you through the steps for building a PC), we insert the CPU in the socket on the motherboard, add the RAM, and install the CPU cooler. Senior Editor Jason Cross shows you how.

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