LGA2011 Intel Core i7 CPU Installation Guide H100 Water Cooler Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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So today we're going to show you guys a couple of things one is how to install
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your brand new LGA 2011 CPU into your
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motherboard and the other is how to mount the Corsair h100 to your brand new
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2011 board because this is one of the few high-end aftermarket coolers that is
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coming right out of the box with compatibility for socket 2011 or LGA
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2011 so the first thing to do is make sure before you touch any of your gear
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you have correctly grounded yourself which means touching the casing of a power supply that is plugged into the
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wall that is the way to ground yourself correctly the next thing is you're going
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to go ahead and set your CPU aside I know I'm holding the CPU in the first
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place but it is what it is and you're going to undo the latch with the U shape
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on it so that's the latch to undo first
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then you are going to undo the latch with the sort of looks like uh what's
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the heart rate monitor thing looks like that okay electroc cardiograph I don't
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know what they're called uh and then you are going to pull up on this one a
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little bit and you are going to lift up
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the cover so there now everything is up
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the next thing you're going to do is you are going to align The Notches so you
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can see there are actually 1 two three four notches in the 2011 CPU two of them
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are closer to the edge and two of them are further from the edge so you're
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going to carefully examine your CPU socket and look for the two notches that
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are closer to the edge and the two that are further the other way you can check
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is to see the little gold triangle in the corner here and align that with the
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triangle on the socket itself can you see that triangle okay not really there
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go until you can see the triangle better there you go there's the triangle so you
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align those two and you will never get it wrong now you want to be very careful
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when you're putting this down because there are more than 2,000 pins in that
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socket every single one one of them has to line up and contact perfectly the pad
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on the bottom of the CPU so remember the bottom of a 2011 CPU looks like that yes
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2,000 little pads they all have to be perfect so be very careful with your
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socket because most motherboard manufacturers and most retailers will
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not cover you if you screw this up and
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you break your socket so we're going to go ahead and put down the one with the
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little uh 90° Bend in it then we are
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going to tighten down the one with the U shape we have installed the CPU into the
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socket the next thing I'm going to need is some thermal compound and I thought I
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saw some around here just like a minute ago there it is okay so I'm going to
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apply a fairly large amount of thermal compound compared to what we're used to
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this is a very big CPU so I'm going to go ahead and put a line down the CPU
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just like that and then I'm going to
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take my h100 which you can see the h100 we're just using the the back plate that
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comes with it have a look at the back plate there's your standard back plate
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and we're also using uh the standard mounting hardware
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that comes with it just screw that into the back plate and that's it it's that
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simple so then you take your h100 CPU block you go ahead and it comes preut
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preconfigured to be completely compatible with LGA 2011 and for some
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reason this is uh this is caught on here
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that's interesting come on need a little bit
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more slack a little bit more slack there
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we go okay so we just lower that down on
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the appropriate pegs and finally we take our four thumb
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screws
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and screw it down yes that is it it is
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that simple to install your h100 on
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the hold on just a minute
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we're going to have to refilm so um yeah we learned something
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um instead of using the standard Intel procedure which is to use the Intel pegs
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and then screw those into the back plate
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the back plate even though it has the appropriate holes for 2011 the spacing
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is right you don't use it you actually
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use these ones you screw them directly
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into the built-in front plate it's more
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of a front plate than a back plate and that is how you will Mount the
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h100 here we go after you've cleaned it off of course how that is how you will
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Mount the h100 so that it sits down firmly on the
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CPU because with the other pegs people
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and you know what someone's going to make this mistake I made this mistake and it's a good thing I noticed before I
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turned on the CPU if you use those longer pegs
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then what's going to happen is you're not actually going to have any contact
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between your h100 and the CPU itself at
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all so we're going to go ahead and tighten down our thumb screws in a
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diagonal pattern so I usually tighten both of them at the same time then we
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get tighter start tightening them in
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crosses until they
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are all the way tightened and there we
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go we have installed our LG LGA 2011 CPU
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and we have installed our Corsair h100
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on it remember guys you do not need the back plate and you do not need the
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standard Intel mounting hardware which works like this and goes through the
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board because it just uses this plate that's built into the motherboard to
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install now one thing I do want to check out is how much the board is uh
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bowing not very much at all cuz it does have this to increase the rigidity of
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the board as a whole and then it has that front plate to keep it from to keep
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it from bowing so you can actually here you can see that surface there is quite
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flat in spite of the tremendous pressure that's being applied by the h100 thank
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