This guide to upgrading your PC starts with the basics, such as purchasing hardware up-grades and a guide to the hand tools necessary to perform the up-grade. Then follows explanations to all PC components with step-by-step instructions to upgrading each part. Areas covered include motherboards, CPUs, RAM, hard drives, floppy disk drives, expansion cards, video cards, monitors, CD-ROM drives, sound cards, modems, keyboards and mouse and fine-tuning a PC.