Where in my computer is the Processor located. The hard drive??

I am A+ and Network + certified. What this means is I went to a Tech School to learn how to work on computers.

In answer to your question the processor is located on the Mother Board. It will be the largest object sticking up, with a heat sink and a fan attached, the other smaller heat sink will be your Northbridge chipset.

As to the second half of your question I would strongly recommend that you do not upgrade your processor yourself, since you don't know what it even looks like or where it is located.

Processors easily cost $300 to $2000, and must be compatible with your Mother Board to fit in the socket. Second even though the pins on a Processor are arranged so that it is impossible to install wrong, some people will still bend the pins trying to get it into the socket, ruining the Processor and wasting your money. If you don't take measures against static electricity this will also destroy your processor even if you do everything else right.

Also there are heat concerns. Extreme temperatures are a constant concern for Processors and if you don't know how to use Thermal Compound, Heat Sinks, and Fans, you could do some serious damage to your entire computer.

Either get educated (there are alot of web sites that can explain and show you step by step how to do this), or pay someone knowledgeable to do it for you.

Not any processor will fit, it has to meet specs the system can handle and see. The processor is inside your computer in the main system board (motherboard). As said above its most likely where the heatsink will be (the large square usually with a fan on the motherboard). Unless you have a much older computer it could be a slotted processor which then it will be a long rectangle shap sticking up from the motherboard. I am sure there are others that will provide more info

The processor is located on your motherboard. Depending on the model, it might be under either a fan or a heat sink. In order to upgrade to a faster processor, you have to have a motherboard that will accept one. Check the manual that came with your computer to see if your motherboard is upgradeable. If it is not, you may be better off getting a new computer.

No on the mother board...the hard drive is differnt it is a large storage device in the tower. It depends on the motherboard you have and how far you can upgrade the processor ....or you can buy a upgrade kit with a new processor and motherboard

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What john said is on the right track. We need memory PERIOD it just depends on what types of memory is required. For lame you have in this order starting with fastest, smallest and closest to the core of the cpu to the slowest largest and furthest from the core of the cpu. It starts with L1 which is tiny memory for instruction sets. Then L2 which can do some caching of requests and commands, L3 may or may not be apparent it depends on the expensive and utility of the chip. L3 is usually much much larger that L1. Those three are usually on the processor DIE or in the old days located around the processor sink. The first thing that you think of as RAM are the chips that measure anywhere from 256mb 32GB or more. Why do you need that memory? Well in a way you do not. It would be possible to load everylast thing from the HD everytime it it is needed. But once it is called uppon it may need to stay in the memory where it can quickly be changed or accessed. If your HD was the memory it would be much too slow to handle the changes and requests and we are talking 100s or 1000s of times slower. Using your HD as memory does in fact happen. It is called extended memory it is used when you exceed the comit charge that is allowed by your memory. It starts making a temp file. THe reality is that windows 7 need 2gb of ram to operate smoothly. If you have 4 your golden. If your gaming with 64 bit games you may come accross a small but barely noticibale difference between 4 and 8gb. If you are running VMWARE then 2x-3x that the minimum will be needed. let me explain. If you are running maxosx which need 2GB OF RAM AND YOU ARE RUNNING A VMWARE WINDOWS 7 SETUP THEN YOU ARE GOING TO NEED A MINIMUM OF 4GB 2 FOR MAC AND 2 FOR WINDOWS. MY RECOMMENDATIONS WOULD BE 2 FOR MAC AND 6 FOR WINDOWS. IF YOU PLAN ON RUNNING MULTIPLE INSTANCES 8-16GB IS GONNA BE THE TICKET. HOW THIS KINDA HELPS

Your processor and hard drive are two completely different things. Don't "upgrade" your processor until you know exactly what you want to do with your computer and what your motherboard can handle.

if you do not know where it is, or what it looks like, you personally should not be doing anything with it until you learn about it more....as far as where it is, no it is not "in the hard drive" it is part of the motherboard....and if it works the way you want, don't change anything...."if it aint broke, don't fix it"....if you want to upgrade your porcessor, its actually easier and sometimes less expensive to simply purchase a new tower with motherboard and processor already installed, you can then "swap" or add your current hard drive to the new tower and then you are all upgraded and allyou would really need to do is reactivate windows.

A central processing unit (CPU), or sometimes simply processor, is the component in a digital computer that interprets computer program instructions and processes data. CPUs provide the fundamental digital computer trait of programmability, and are one of the necessary components found in computers of any era, along with primary storage and input/output facilities. A CPU is a toatlly separate thing from the HD. The HD stores info and te CPU is what controls everything

You should find a little cube fan buckled down somewhere inside. Unbuckle the fan and you will see the square processor right underneath. The processor can be pulled out and a new one can be plugged into its place.

On the motherboard. To upgrade it you must check on the motherboard book to see which are the processors supported by the motherboard that you have, and choose one from the list (of course you must choose a better one than theone that you have).