so on the right hand side here you're going to see an LGA 1156 motherboard
this is the old p7p 55 de premium so
this is a Linfield socket or it's a core
I3 Core i5 core i7 whatever you want to call it this is an LGA 1156 motherboard
with LGA 1156 mounting holes and an LGA
1156 keep out zone so the uh the the
keep out zone is what Intel specifies as
the minimum amount of space around the socket where there can't be anything
there all right on my left side I have a brand new LGA
1155 motherboard so this is with an 1155
socket it supports the new core I series
two chips so that is if you have a core i7
2600k that two means generation 2 so LGA
1155 despite having fewer pins than 1156
is actually an upgraded platform okay
now normally when Intel upgrades their platform and they change the socket like
when we saw 1366 to 1156 they actually change the spacing of
the mounting holes however the good news is that if you are shopping for a new
1155 system you're buying a motherboard you're buying a CPU and you're trying to
figure out if you need to upgrade your cooler I have some really good news for
you this is an LGA 1156 cooler
and this is me putting it on an LGA 1155
motherboard just like that the ho
spacing oops look at that
random the whole spacing as you can see
is exactly the same the stock cooler uses the same plastic push pins as LGA
1156 and we even have the same hold down
mechanism and the same back plate I'm going to flip the board over again and
the same black back plate that we found on lga8 1156 so you'll actually see if I
flip this over there you go these are using
exactly the same Hardware on the back of the board so there are no changes and
the tdps that is the thermal output of
the processors on both platforms are actually very similar so if you have one
that's rated for a high-end 1156 chip odds are 100% that it's going to work
just fine with a high-end 11 55 chips so
don't fear you do not have to upgrade your cooler that is my Linus Tech tip
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