Intel LGA1366 Core i7 & Extreme Edition CPU Installation Tutorial Guide Walkthrough Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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I did a series of videos recently on installing CPUs and I covered am2 am3
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775 1156 and I just realized I never did
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1366 so I'm going to walk you through the procedure to install a CPU in socket
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1366 so this is Intel's x58 platform the board I'll be demoing today is the ASUS
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Rampage 3 Extreme so the first thing you want to do you see it's got a protective
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cover over the pins here that's to keep the very fragile pins inside the socket
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from being damaged because this CPU itself only has pads you can actually
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touch the bottom of a CPU it's not the best thing to do but uh you could there
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I showed you I did it and um and it won't be nearly as easy to damage as
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something like the CPU socket so oh my camera keeps focusing on that RAM so I'm
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going to just sort of shift my angle here and see if I can get it to focus on the socket so the first thing you want
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to do is push down on this ARM this
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lever here and then pull it away from the socket so here I'm going to do a
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close up there so you can see what I'm doing so I'm taking that ARM and I'm
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pulling it out away from the socket and lifting it up just like that okay so
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that loosens this little piece right here which is what actually keeps the
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CPU or the holder uh firmly in place
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then you just press on this little spot right here and lift up the cover next
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what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to always something
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attach the cover when the CPU is not installed yeah that's to protect this
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socket so then you pick this up and let me see if I can find which one is the
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labeled one yeah this says remove so you hold it by these two pieces right here
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and then you lift up that side pull the whole thing out and that's where you see
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1,336 pins you touch those even with something as as delicate as like a fiber
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from your shirt you can easily bend a pin or even rip them they are very very
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fragile so the next thing you're going to do is take your 1366 CPU which has
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two notches is one here focus focus one
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here and one over here you'll line that up with the two notches in the socket
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which are here and here and then you put the CPU in be very careful to line up
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the corners and never do this while you're looking at the socket through a
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camera always be looking directly at the socket do as I say not as I do so I
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always give the CPU a bit of a wiggle just to make sure it's seated correctly
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because if it's in there crooked like if it's sitting like this and you go and
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and put the cover down on it and secure it you're just going to bend the heck
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out of your socket so you just take that put it in there's no Force involved you
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just kind of give it a bit of a wiggle there you go so then you pull down this
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cover you can see that the pressure that holds the CPU in is actually from these
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two spots right here so those two will press down on the heat spreader the CPU
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right in the middle then you'll take this ARM and it this requires some Force
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so you push it down put it under the oh
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that was bad just make sure that's still in there okay yep pull it down put it
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under the hook there you go you have installed the CPU in your 1366
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motherboard you are a computer
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technician thank you for watching my blog don't forget to subscribe lots more
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