Intel LGA1155/1156 Core i3 i5 i7 CPU Installation Tutorial Guide Walkthrough Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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590 words · ~2 min read
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so I had someone send me a message on my uh my YouTube messages today um and they
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asked me how to install an LGA 1156 CPU
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so that kind of inspired me to do a series of CPU installation tips so I've
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got an Intel confidential CPU I can't tell you what that is but the first one
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I'm going to be doing is how to install a CPU in an LGA 1156 motherboard so step
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one would be find a CPU okay so as long
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as you've completed that the actual first step would be to take the lever
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here and then you push down a little bit pull it out to the side and then lift it
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up actually you don't need to lift much because it's it's kind of springloaded
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here so you can see the pressure that the ARM is uh putting down over here and
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that actually forces the um socket to
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slide under this bolt okay so that's
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what is giving the pressure to hold your CPU in so you pull out lift up the ARM
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that's going to cause this to sort of Y there we go lift up so once that
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protective cover is removed you should remove any cats from the vicinity
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because cats will cause all kinds of problems during CPU installation step
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two would be to see that little place where it says remove remove that so you
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hold your thumb under there lift it up okay so you're removing the protective
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cover from the LGA 1156 socket this is
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the part where it could get hairy if you have a cat so there's
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1,156 pins in there all of which need to make perfect contact with the
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1,156 pins on the bottom of your CPU now you see these two notches up at the top
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here right there and then at the bottom right here those two notches need to
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line up with The Notches in the socket which are here and here okay so I got to
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line up my CPU which means it's going to go in some kind of different orientation
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hold on put it this way ah this is
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harder than it looks folks I'm looking through the camera installing a CPU so
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you get it lined up just right so you can see my notches are where they belong
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drop it into the socket being very careful I like to give it a little bit
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of a wiggle just to make sure it's in the right spot then you take the cover
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here you put it right where it goes sort of so that it can slide down here so you
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just it's going to be loose that's normal okay so then you take the
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lever pull it all the way down there's going to you're applying some pressure
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here like that actually is putting a fair amount of force back on my finger
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so once you do that you can see that the CPU is actually held in by these two
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tabs right here more than anything else so those line up with a little metal tab
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on the heat spreader and that's what gives your CPU the force downward that
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it needs to ensure it makes good contact with the pads in the socket so thank you
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for checking out my installation tip for
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LGA 1156 more to come