so I had someone send me a message on my uh my YouTube messages today um and they
asked me how to install an LGA 1156 CPU
so that kind of inspired me to do a series of CPU installation tips so I've
got an Intel confidential CPU I can't tell you what that is but the first one
I'm going to be doing is how to install a CPU in an LGA 1156 motherboard so step
one would be find a CPU okay so as long
as you've completed that the actual first step would be to take the lever
here and then you push down a little bit pull it out to the side and then lift it
up actually you don't need to lift much because it's it's kind of springloaded
here so you can see the pressure that the ARM is uh putting down over here and
that actually forces the um socket to
slide under this bolt okay so that's
what is giving the pressure to hold your CPU in so you pull out lift up the ARM
that's going to cause this to sort of Y there we go lift up so once that
protective cover is removed you should remove any cats from the vicinity
because cats will cause all kinds of problems during CPU installation step
two would be to see that little place where it says remove remove that so you
hold your thumb under there lift it up okay so you're removing the protective
cover from the LGA 1156 socket this is
the part where it could get hairy if you have a cat so there's
1,156 pins in there all of which need to make perfect contact with the
1,156 pins on the bottom of your CPU now you see these two notches up at the top
here right there and then at the bottom right here those two notches need to
line up with The Notches in the socket which are here and here okay so I got to
line up my CPU which means it's going to go in some kind of different orientation
hold on put it this way ah this is
harder than it looks folks I'm looking through the camera installing a CPU so
you get it lined up just right so you can see my notches are where they belong
drop it into the socket being very careful I like to give it a little bit
of a wiggle just to make sure it's in the right spot then you take the cover
here you put it right where it goes sort of so that it can slide down here so you
just it's going to be loose that's normal okay so then you take the
lever pull it all the way down there's going to you're applying some pressure
here like that actually is putting a fair amount of force back on my finger
so once you do that you can see that the CPU is actually held in by these two
tabs right here more than anything else so those line up with a little metal tab
on the heat spreader and that's what gives your CPU the force downward that
it needs to ensure it makes good contact with the pads in the socket so thank you
for checking out my installation tip for
LGA 1156 more to come