welcome to Techquickie today we're going to show you how to install your Intel CPU using LGA 1156 or 1155 as fast
as possible the first step is to find the little Golden Triangle on your CPU
and align that with either the little plastic triangle on the cover
or once you've removed the cover the metal triangle that is on the CPU socket
itself in The Next Step push the retention ARM lever down pull away from
the socket and then it will loosen it self you can then pull it up and move
the hold down bracket out of the way
after that remembering where the gold triangle of points place don't press
place the CPU into the socket giving it a slight wiggle just to ensure that it
is seated correctly lower the hold down plate making sure that it actually sits
under this screw right here then lower the retention ARM until you feel some
resistance brace yourself because this does take a little bit of force push it
down all the way pull out and then make sure that it's pinned by the hook on the
retention plate the heat sink included with your CPU comes with a quality
thermal compound pre-applied however there is a trick with these push pin
style heat sinks and that is if you're reusing it you not only need to reapply
new thermal compound but watch out for
these arrows right here you can see that they do rotate 90° so I'm going to turn
it in the direction of the arrow turning it the direction the arrows pointed
optimizes it for removal turning it away from that direction optimizes it for
installation so we want to make sure they'll they're all turned clockwise
before we install it when positioning the heat sink over the socket make sure
that the plastic pins stick through all four holes in the motherboard the
easiest way to check this is to rotate the heat sink a little bit and see if
all of the pins move just like this if they do then they should all be through
the holes you also want to make sure that you have enough slack on the CPU
fan wire to reach the CPU fan header on your motherboard the safest way to
tighten the heat sink on is to apply force on opposite
Corners at the same time there are two ways to tell that the installation was
successful number one is to listen for the distinctive
click the other way is to flip the board over and make sure that the black
plastic sticks out as far as the white plastic if it doesn't it's possible that
you'll have to tighten it a little bit there we go now we heard the click these
inel heat sinks often come with the fan wires wrapped in such a way that the fan
blades can't move unless you loosen them so take them
out what I often do is Twist them up
tuck them away somewhere safe and then plug them into the labeled CPU fan
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