unless you're traveling abroad plugging in your favorite electronics to a wall
socket is a piece of cake that is assuming you can find one and you're not
at a crowded starbucks where it seems like the entire town is hogging every
outlet but if you've ever built a pc you
know that plugging in components requires a little more attention than
just ordering an overpriced latte and finding a comfy chair
there are different connectors for everything inside a pc and CPU sockets
are no exception and unlike something like pci express which uses the same
type of connector for lots of different
add-in components nearly every new CPU
lineup uses its own socket or if it does
there are software or firmware interoperabilities
anyway and this can be quite confusing so let's break it down for you starting
with Intel sockets a while back Intel used cpus with pins on the bottom that
slotted into these little pin grid things on the motherboard and actually
before that some even used cartridges like the old
pentium 2 kind of like a nintendo game on the bottom these days though Intel
desktop processors use a mounting system called land grid array better known as
lga all this means is that the bottom of the CPU has electric contact pads while
the pins themselves are in the socket on the motherboard i guess lga was a better
acronym than calling it pins on socket or pos
now if you're buying an Intel CPU you'll see that the socket identifier will be
something along the lines of lga 1151 or
lga 2011. these numbers just indicate
how many pins are on the bottom of the
socket and pads on the bottom of the CPU and if you're wondering why they need so
many by the way a big part of the reason is power delivery cpus especially some
of them can consume a lot of power and
dividing it between many different pins actually helps to stabilize it so the
processor doesn't become overloaded
now if you're more of a fan of the red team and you want to buy an AMD CPU AMD
also ditched the cartridge system a long time ago but stuck with the pins on the
bottom of the CPU at least on their consumer desktop processors so they're
using a system called pin grid array or pga here the socket itself still has the
little holes for inserting the pins of the CPU now AMD doesn't use the same
naming scheme as Intel so don't expect to see things like pga 942 when you buy
instead you'll see names like fm2 or am3
plus for their a series apus and their
fx cpus respectively or am4 for their
upcoming zen architecture chips but regardless of which side you're on
in the CPU war remember that both Intel and AMD chips do not require any direct
pressure on the chip in order to be properly inserted if you're pushing down
on them you're probably doing it wrong instead modern cpus are held in with
retention arms this is because the pins on the socket or the CPU are very
fragile and pushing down on the processor can easily damage your
processor the motherboard or both especially if they're misaligned instead
gently place your CPU into the socket and make sure it is properly aligned
before putting down the retention ARM we actually have guides on how to do this
in some of the earliest videos on techwiki which you can check out here
and here of course you'll need a CPU cooler as
well and although many popular coolers these days support most modern sockets
it's a good idea to confirm that your socket will work with the heatsink you
bought unless of course you're interested in trying to turn your processor into the world's smallest
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