FAQ: LGA1155 vs LGA1156 Heatsink Mounting Holes Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so on the right hand side here you're going to see an LGA 1156 motherboard
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this is the old p7p 55 de premium so
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this is a Linfield socket or it's a core
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I3 Core i5 core i7 whatever you want to call it this is an LGA 1156 motherboard
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with LGA 1156 mounting holes and an LGA
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1156 keep out zone so the uh the the
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keep out zone is what Intel specifies as
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the minimum amount of space around the socket where there can't be anything
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there all right on my left side I have a brand new LGA
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1155 motherboard so this is with an 1155
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socket it supports the new core I series
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two chips so that is if you have a core i7
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2600k that two means generation 2 so LGA
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1155 despite having fewer pins than 1156
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is actually an upgraded platform okay
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now normally when Intel upgrades their platform and they change the socket like
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when we saw 1366 to 1156 they actually change the spacing of
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the mounting holes however the good news is that if you are shopping for a new
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1155 system you're buying a motherboard you're buying a CPU and you're trying to
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figure out if you need to upgrade your cooler I have some really good news for
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you this is an LGA 1156 cooler
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and this is me putting it on an LGA 1155
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motherboard just like that the ho
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spacing oops look at that
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random the whole spacing as you can see
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is exactly the same the stock cooler uses the same plastic push pins as LGA
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1156 and we even have the same hold down
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mechanism and the same back plate I'm going to flip the board over again and
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the same black back plate that we found on lga8 1156 so you'll actually see if I
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flip this over there you go these are using
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exactly the same Hardware on the back of the board so there are no changes and
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the tdps that is the thermal output of
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the processors on both platforms are actually very similar so if you have one
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that's rated for a high-end 1156 chip odds are 100% that it's going to work
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just fine with a high-end 11 55 chips so
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don't fear you do not have to upgrade your cooler that is my Linus Tech tip
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