{"video_id":"PH5o6v73Jww","title":"Corsair A50 Heatpipe Heatsink Cooler Installation Guide Tutorial Video Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":544,"segments":[{"start_s":0.32,"end_s":7.0,"text":"I've been asked on a number of times to do CPU heat sink installation tutorials","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.92,"end_s":12.96,"text":"so I'm going to start with one on the Corsair A50 so this is their mainstream","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.24,"end_s":17.84,"text":"CPU Cooler you can see it is a three uh thick 8 mm heat pipe uh direct touch","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.279,"end_s":21.119,"text":"Tower heat sink so that's actually fairly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.92,"end_s":26.679,"text":"straightforward so we'll start with the CPU in the socket that is a core i7 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blog","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"I've been asked on a number of times to do CPU heat sink installation tutorials so I'm going to start with one on the Corsair A50 so this is their mainstream CPU Cooler you can see it is a three uh thick 8 mm heat pipe uh direct touch Tower heat sink so that's actually fairly straightforward so we'll start with the CPU in the socket that is a core i7 875k unlocked so the first two things we're going to need are some uh TP in this case Charmin very very soft very nice and we will also need some rubbing alcohol so go ahead and open that up rubbing alcohol is going to allow you to remove the old thermal compound and not leave behind any nasty residue so go ahead get some rubbing alcohol on there and then wipe off the old thermal compound honestly it doesn't have to be perfect as long as you do a reasonably good job uh what I usually do is I'll I'll wipe off as much as I can with the wet part of the uh of the toilet paper or paper towel or whatever I happen to be using and then um I'll go back and grab a fresh piece and then just uh wipe off any sort of random residue that might be left so that gets our CPU nice and clean and ready for the next stage so you can see it's all ah you can't see that never mind okay so the next stage is to put on whatever brackets are required in order to mount the CPU so I've never mounted this cooler before so this is going to be a bit of a journey of Discovery for me uh trying to mount a CPU Cooler that I've never done before um couldn't be that complicated I mean Corsair usually does a pretty bang up job of this kind of stuff so I found four screws and I found a back plate so let's assume the back plate goes on first and that it is not adjusted to the correct settings so I'm moving it one notch in to LGA 1156 cuz this is a universal back plate it's compatible with 775 1156 and 1366 so we're going to go over here if we have a case with a um uh with a a CPU back plate hole then this is where that really comes in handy because most aftermarket coolers um anyway the good ones are going to require a back plat so that they mount nice and uh nice and strong okay so we got to kind of adjust these just a little bit with that on there that's kind of interesting so I'm going to flip over my board uh so they don't line up quite the way that I had them adjusted that's one thing that can be a little bit finicky about Universal anything is that it tends to be sort of not quite without some fine adjustments so there we go just go ahead and make sure that's on there pretty good you know what I think one of them is not uh not in the right position still there we go so just wiggle those a bit Ah now you can see it's it doesn't have to stay in place as long as the holes are coming up and it's not putting any pressure on the mounting holes of the motherboard so there we've done that part we have a back plate success okay oh yeah another important tip for upgrading your heat sink is never leave an open bottle of rubbing alcohol sitting on the table because at some point you will knock it off and it will be bad will not be fun oh you have four little rubber grommets I wonder if those go on the back of the back plate I don't have the instructions I will be back in just a moment okay well I can't figure it out so let's assume it does nothing uh with some with some coolers the back plate is a necessary piece because the uh the the back plate sorry the uh the grommets are a necessary piece because the back plate doesn't have any non-conductive coating but this one does it has a plastic cover over the back plate so you don't have to worry about installing it there all right so here we are now we have this piece which is going to go through right here and then we will fix it to the heat sink sink with the four included screws there we are so this is fairly straightforward basically we're just taking the hold down plate and attaching it to the CPU Cooler and that's probably going to go in from the bottom based on how difficult this is if I try to do it this way there we are yeah you can see that screw holes are counter sunk so that yes you can install these screws from the bottom and should because that is how it is designed to work I don't really have a whole lot of commentary I already said everything that I really thought about this heat sink at the time that I uh unboxed it that's the thing about guides is if you do them in real time like on the camera as I tend to do all of my videos then there's a lot of like long pauses okay so uh this is the AMD mounting bracket which we will not need today now why don't we put on some thermal compound so here putting on thermal compound this is really easy you take your little syringe and then you go like this you zoom in there right that's enough that's probably more than enough I probably put on too much that's okay here I'll let you see how much I put on if my camera would focus that would be great there we are that is how much I put on it is probably too much but I mean I could make the argument that I can put on a little bit extra because there are some grooves in between the uh the heat pipes and the aluminum base of the heat sink so maybe we need to fill in more gaps that's my story and I'm sticking to it so I'm going to be installing a RAM fan so one thing that I want to be aware of is that I need enough room uh to the side of the cooler to install my RAM fan so there we are we place the cooler down on top of the back plate that's very straightforward and then we go ahead and tighten the thumb screws you always want to put the thumb screws on before actually uh like tightening them down with a lot of force see so I've just put them on they're not actually holding anything right now um that way you can uh tighten them all at the same time which is going to allow you to apply even pressure to your CPU throughout the mounting procedure which is uh going to reduce the chances of damaging it or your motherboard so you can see that these are thumb screws but they do have uh Philips head uh holes at the top so what I'll be doing is I'll be tightening up tightening them up just a little bit so finger tight right now all four if I want it to be um really anal retentive I could go in diagonals like this okay make sure we're tightening that up real good and then I'm going to go ahead and give them another however much with the screwdriver so yeah these are this is a good mounting system it's designed to only go as far as it needs to go so um you can't just here I'll show you what I mean in a sec there it's noted um so you see how the threading on the screws actually or on the back plate actually ends and the screws only go on as far as the threading goes so it means you can't overtighten it which is a really good feature so now let's go ahead and take the fan that's included with the A50 and we're going to orient the clips right here so that they're on the side where they uh clip into the heat sink and we're going to push it on just like like something just like that then we're going to take our CPU fan and we are going to either plug it straight into the motherboard header which is here there's our CPU motherboard header or we can plug it into this handy dandy noise reduction adapter which is basically just a resistor in line and then we can plug that in that was it that was the whole installation procedure for the Corsair A50 thank you for for checking it out and don't forget to subscribe to my video blog"}