(This is a resource we won’t be using this year, but you might be interested anyway.)

Nick Barber, IDG news service, Boston    (June/July 2010)

• Part 1 : Selecting your components (7:53) – Transcript and links
• Part 2 : Installing the motherboard (1:42) – Transcript and links
• Part 3 : Installing the processor (2:46) – Transcript and links
• Part 4 : Adding RAM and peripheral cards (2:17) – Transcript and links
• Part 5 : Connecting the power supply (1:46) – Transcript and links
• Part 6 : Inserting the hard disk and optical drives (2:34) – Transcript and links
• Part 7 : First boot and setting up the BIOS (3:03) – Transcript and links

– which adds up to 22.01 min.

(Transcripts are NOT word-for-word versions of the audio.)

(videos also available here, but lower definition)

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Two other  series of videos about building a PC :

• Interactive Geek Tech videos (PCWorld,  April 2009)
• The perfect PC : don’t buy it, build it – 3 videos (PCWorld, August 24 2010)