So today we're going to show you guys a couple of things one is how to install
your brand new LGA 2011 CPU into your
motherboard and the other is how to mount the Corsair h100 to your brand new
2011 board because this is one of the few high-end aftermarket coolers that is
coming right out of the box with compatibility for socket 2011 or LGA
2011 so the first thing to do is make sure before you touch any of your gear
you have correctly grounded yourself which means touching the casing of a power supply that is plugged into the
wall that is the way to ground yourself correctly the next thing is you're going
to go ahead and set your CPU aside I know I'm holding the CPU in the first
place but it is what it is and you're going to undo the latch with the U shape
on it so that's the latch to undo first
then you are going to undo the latch with the sort of looks like uh what's
the heart rate monitor thing looks like that okay electroc cardiograph I don't
know what they're called uh and then you are going to pull up on this one a
little bit and you are going to lift up
the cover so there now everything is up
the next thing you're going to do is you are going to align The Notches so you
can see there are actually 1 two three four notches in the 2011 CPU two of them
are closer to the edge and two of them are further from the edge so you're
going to carefully examine your CPU socket and look for the two notches that
are closer to the edge and the two that are further the other way you can check
is to see the little gold triangle in the corner here and align that with the
triangle on the socket itself can you see that triangle okay not really there
go until you can see the triangle better there you go there's the triangle so you
align those two and you will never get it wrong now you want to be very careful
when you're putting this down because there are more than 2,000 pins in that
socket every single one one of them has to line up and contact perfectly the pad
on the bottom of the CPU so remember the bottom of a 2011 CPU looks like that yes
2,000 little pads they all have to be perfect so be very careful with your
socket because most motherboard manufacturers and most retailers will
not cover you if you screw this up and
you break your socket so we're going to go ahead and put down the one with the
little uh 90° Bend in it then we are
going to tighten down the one with the U shape we have installed the CPU into the
socket the next thing I'm going to need is some thermal compound and I thought I
saw some around here just like a minute ago there it is okay so I'm going to
apply a fairly large amount of thermal compound compared to what we're used to
this is a very big CPU so I'm going to go ahead and put a line down the CPU
just like that and then I'm going to
take my h100 which you can see the h100 we're just using the the back plate that
comes with it have a look at the back plate there's your standard back plate
and we're also using uh the standard mounting hardware
that comes with it just screw that into the back plate and that's it it's that
simple so then you take your h100 CPU block you go ahead and it comes preut
preconfigured to be completely compatible with LGA 2011 and for some
reason this is uh this is caught on here
that's interesting come on need a little bit
more slack a little bit more slack there
we go okay so we just lower that down on
the appropriate pegs and finally we take our four thumb
screws
and screw it down yes that is it it is
that simple to install your h100 on
the hold on just a minute
we're going to have to refilm so um yeah we learned something
um instead of using the standard Intel procedure which is to use the Intel pegs
and then screw those into the back plate
the back plate even though it has the appropriate holes for 2011 the spacing
is right you don't use it you actually
use these ones you screw them directly
into the built-in front plate it's more
of a front plate than a back plate and that is how you will Mount the
h100 here we go after you've cleaned it off of course how that is how you will
Mount the h100 so that it sits down firmly on the
CPU because with the other pegs people
and you know what someone's going to make this mistake I made this mistake and it's a good thing I noticed before I
turned on the CPU if you use those longer pegs
then what's going to happen is you're not actually going to have any contact
between your h100 and the CPU itself at
all so we're going to go ahead and tighten down our thumb screws in a
diagonal pattern so I usually tighten both of them at the same time then we
get tighter start tightening them in
crosses until they
are all the way tightened and there we
go we have installed our LG LGA 2011 CPU
and we have installed our Corsair h100
on it remember guys you do not need the back plate and you do not need the
standard Intel mounting hardware which works like this and goes through the
board because it just uses this plate that's built into the motherboard to
install now one thing I do want to check out is how much the board is uh
bowing not very much at all cuz it does have this to increase the rigidity of
the board as a whole and then it has that front plate to keep it from to keep
it from bowing so you can actually here you can see that surface there is quite
flat in spite of the tremendous pressure that's being applied by the h100 thank
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