AMD AM2 AM2+ AM3 Athlon 64 Phenom II CPU Installation Tutorial Guide Walkthrough Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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784 words · ~3 min read
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so this will be one of the last in my series of CPU installation tutorials now
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this is actually what is this this is an am2 motherboard okay so you can see it's
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got the four uh bolt through okay which
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is standard for am2 the older LG or from LGA the older socket 754 and 939 only
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had two bolts but they did have the same clip system that AMD uses with am2 am2
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plus am3 754 and 939 so this is going to
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be the same CPU installation procedure regardless of which one of those sockets
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you're using so this particular one yeah there you can see it say socket am2
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right there so it's 940 pins as I recall
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so TPU now with the Intel installation
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videos I did you could see that there was a protective cover over the socket on the motherboard not the case with AMD
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these are not fragile as long as you don't manage to like Drop metal shards
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or something inside those holes you're not going to run into any problems with
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uh physical contact with the socket with AMD CPUs at least the consumer ones at
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this point the fragile part is actually
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on the CPU itself so this is an AMD sempron they usually come in this kind
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of a clam shell with a with a fuzzy bit at the bottom and the reason for that is
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that the CPU actually has all of the pins on it
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so you can see that this one I have not managed to bend any of the pins on yet
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I'm notorious for accidentally bending pins on CPUs but I'm quite good at
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fixing them at this point that's the good news so I got my semon what is this
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3,000 Plus or something I don't know what it is haven't used this guy in a
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while 3400 I don't know okay so CPU
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installation on am2 am3 and 2 plus am 3
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plus if that ever exists I have no idea is fairly straightforward you see this
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little Golden Triangle on the corner of the CPU I don't mean the circle on this
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side I mean the triangle here that's going to correspond to a triangle on the
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CPU socket so ah this is going to be tough for you to see and I apologize in
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advance for that but I'm going to see how close I can get here to give you a
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good look at that triangle so it's on the corner that I'm showing you right
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now I'm going to try and get you a better look at it if I can let me see
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it's probably just a matter of getting the lighting just right hope I'm looking
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at the right yeah so it's actually okay I might just have to describe it oh no
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there we go okay I think you can see it now if I kind of cover it a little bit
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okay anyway there's a little plastic indent in the shape of a triangle so you
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line that up oh I didn't even cover the first step first step is you take the
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lever here and lift it up okay so you see the socket actually moves a little
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bit when you do that that's not the motherboard moving that's the socket so
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this is a zi or zero insertion for socket which means when I line up the
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triangle with the other triangle oh now you can see it hey that's perfect with
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the other triangle and I place it on top there you go it dropped here I'll do
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this from the side but it dropped right into the socket without me pressing it
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in at all so I just kind of take it line it up
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and then Boop it's in that's all it takes so there's there there's no real
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Force required I mean when you push down the lever there's a tiny bit but it's
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not at all like the Intel sockets that was it then you install
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your cooler so I removed it from the protective clam shell which has the
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little fuzzy on the bottom to protect the pins and then put in the socket
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pretty simple thanks for checking out my installation video for am2 am3 am2 plus
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754 939 that's
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it oh I I'm trying to hit the end recording button but it's not working
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let's try this one more time