so this will be one of the last in my series of CPU installation tutorials now
this is actually what is this this is an am2 motherboard okay so you can see it's
got the four uh bolt through okay which
is standard for am2 the older LG or from LGA the older socket 754 and 939 only
had two bolts but they did have the same clip system that AMD uses with am2 am2
plus am3 754 and 939 so this is going to
be the same CPU installation procedure regardless of which one of those sockets
you're using so this particular one yeah there you can see it say socket am2
right there so it's 940 pins as I recall
so TPU now with the Intel installation
videos I did you could see that there was a protective cover over the socket on the motherboard not the case with AMD
these are not fragile as long as you don't manage to like Drop metal shards
or something inside those holes you're not going to run into any problems with
uh physical contact with the socket with AMD CPUs at least the consumer ones at
this point the fragile part is actually
on the CPU itself so this is an AMD sempron they usually come in this kind
of a clam shell with a with a fuzzy bit at the bottom and the reason for that is
that the CPU actually has all of the pins on it
so you can see that this one I have not managed to bend any of the pins on yet
I'm notorious for accidentally bending pins on CPUs but I'm quite good at
fixing them at this point that's the good news so I got my semon what is this
3,000 Plus or something I don't know what it is haven't used this guy in a
while 3400 I don't know okay so CPU
installation on am2 am3 and 2 plus am 3
plus if that ever exists I have no idea is fairly straightforward you see this
little Golden Triangle on the corner of the CPU I don't mean the circle on this
side I mean the triangle here that's going to correspond to a triangle on the
CPU socket so ah this is going to be tough for you to see and I apologize in
advance for that but I'm going to see how close I can get here to give you a
good look at that triangle so it's on the corner that I'm showing you right
now I'm going to try and get you a better look at it if I can let me see
it's probably just a matter of getting the lighting just right hope I'm looking
at the right yeah so it's actually okay I might just have to describe it oh no
there we go okay I think you can see it now if I kind of cover it a little bit
okay anyway there's a little plastic indent in the shape of a triangle so you
line that up oh I didn't even cover the first step first step is you take the
lever here and lift it up okay so you see the socket actually moves a little
bit when you do that that's not the motherboard moving that's the socket so
this is a zi or zero insertion for socket which means when I line up the
triangle with the other triangle oh now you can see it hey that's perfect with
the other triangle and I place it on top there you go it dropped here I'll do
this from the side but it dropped right into the socket without me pressing it
in at all so I just kind of take it line it up
and then Boop it's in that's all it takes so there's there there's no real
Force required I mean when you push down the lever there's a tiny bit but it's
not at all like the Intel sockets that was it then you install
your cooler so I removed it from the protective clam shell which has the
little fuzzy on the bottom to protect the pins and then put in the socket
pretty simple thanks for checking out my installation video for am2 am3 am2 plus
754 939 that's
it oh I I'm trying to hit the end recording button but it's not working
let's try this one more time