I did a series of videos recently on installing CPUs and I covered am2 am3
775 1156 and I just realized I never did
1366 so I'm going to walk you through the procedure to install a CPU in socket
1366 so this is Intel's x58 platform the board I'll be demoing today is the ASUS
Rampage 3 Extreme so the first thing you want to do you see it's got a protective
cover over the pins here that's to keep the very fragile pins inside the socket
from being damaged because this CPU itself only has pads you can actually
touch the bottom of a CPU it's not the best thing to do but uh you could there
I showed you I did it and um and it won't be nearly as easy to damage as
something like the CPU socket so oh my camera keeps focusing on that RAM so I'm
going to just sort of shift my angle here and see if I can get it to focus on the socket so the first thing you want
to do is push down on this ARM this
lever here and then pull it away from the socket so here I'm going to do a
close up there so you can see what I'm doing so I'm taking that ARM and I'm
pulling it out away from the socket and lifting it up just like that okay so
that loosens this little piece right here which is what actually keeps the
CPU or the holder uh firmly in place
then you just press on this little spot right here and lift up the cover next
what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to always something
attach the cover when the CPU is not installed yeah that's to protect this
socket so then you pick this up and let me see if I can find which one is the
labeled one yeah this says remove so you hold it by these two pieces right here
and then you lift up that side pull the whole thing out and that's where you see
1,336 pins you touch those even with something as as delicate as like a fiber
from your shirt you can easily bend a pin or even rip them they are very very
fragile so the next thing you're going to do is take your 1366 CPU which has
two notches is one here focus focus one
here and one over here you'll line that up with the two notches in the socket
which are here and here and then you put the CPU in be very careful to line up
the corners and never do this while you're looking at the socket through a
camera always be looking directly at the socket do as I say not as I do so I
always give the CPU a bit of a wiggle just to make sure it's seated correctly
because if it's in there crooked like if it's sitting like this and you go and
and put the cover down on it and secure it you're just going to bend the heck
out of your socket so you just take that put it in there's no Force involved you
just kind of give it a bit of a wiggle there you go so then you pull down this
cover you can see that the pressure that holds the CPU in is actually from these
two spots right here so those two will press down on the heat spreader the CPU
right in the middle then you'll take this ARM and it this requires some Force
so you push it down put it under the oh
that was bad just make sure that's still in there okay yep pull it down put it
under the hook there you go you have installed the CPU in your 1366
motherboard you are a computer
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