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unless you're traveling abroad plugging in your favorite electronics to a wall

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socket is a piece of cake that is assuming you can find one and you're not

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at a crowded starbucks where it seems like the entire town is hogging every

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outlet but if you've ever built a pc you

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know that plugging in components requires a little more attention than

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just ordering an overpriced latte and finding a comfy chair

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there are different connectors for everything inside a pc and CPU sockets

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are no exception and unlike something like pci express which uses the same

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type of connector for lots of different

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add-in components nearly every new CPU

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lineup uses its own socket or if it does

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there are software or firmware interoperabilities

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anyway and this can be quite confusing so let's break it down for you starting

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with Intel sockets a while back Intel used cpus with pins on the bottom that

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slotted into these little pin grid things on the motherboard and actually

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before that some even used cartridges like the old

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pentium 2 kind of like a nintendo game on the bottom these days though Intel

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desktop processors use a mounting system called land grid array better known as

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lga all this means is that the bottom of the CPU has electric contact pads while

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the pins themselves are in the socket on the motherboard i guess lga was a better

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acronym than calling it pins on socket or pos

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now if you're buying an Intel CPU you'll see that the socket identifier will be

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something along the lines of lga 1151 or

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lga 2011. these numbers just indicate

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how many pins are on the bottom of the

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socket and pads on the bottom of the CPU and if you're wondering why they need so

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many by the way a big part of the reason is power delivery cpus especially some

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of them can consume a lot of power and

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dividing it between many different pins actually helps to stabilize it so the

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processor doesn't become overloaded

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now if you're more of a fan of the red team and you want to buy an AMD CPU AMD

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also ditched the cartridge system a long time ago but stuck with the pins on the

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bottom of the CPU at least on their consumer desktop processors so they're

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using a system called pin grid array or pga here the socket itself still has the

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little holes for inserting the pins of the CPU now AMD doesn't use the same

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naming scheme as Intel so don't expect to see things like pga 942 when you buy

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instead you'll see names like fm2 or am3

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plus for their a series apus and their

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fx cpus respectively or am4 for their

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upcoming zen architecture chips but regardless of which side you're on

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in the CPU war remember that both Intel and AMD chips do not require any direct

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pressure on the chip in order to be properly inserted if you're pushing down

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on them you're probably doing it wrong instead modern cpus are held in with

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retention arms this is because the pins on the socket or the CPU are very

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fragile and pushing down on the processor can easily damage your

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processor the motherboard or both especially if they're misaligned instead

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gently place your CPU into the socket and make sure it is properly aligned

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before putting down the retention ARM we actually have guides on how to do this

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in some of the earliest videos on techwiki which you can check out here

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and here of course you'll need a CPU cooler as

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well and although many popular coolers these days support most modern sockets

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it's a good idea to confirm that your socket will work with the heatsink you

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bought unless of course you're interested in trying to turn your processor into the world's smallest

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frying pan speaking of sockets if you're looking

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them a little while ago on my other channel and they only exist because of

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math drops close collaboration with akg

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to bring this product to life so over on

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any product where massdrop went to the manufacturer said hey can we get a deal

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description it's draw dots slash Techquickie so go check it out so

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