In this episode,
we show you how to install the CPU and the heatsink.
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen,
thank you for tuning in to more of the Hands-On PC Build.
That's right, in this episode,
we're going to be installing two things:
the CPU and the heatsink.
Let's take a look at what we got here.
First things first, we do want to install the CPU,
but before we do,
we got to do some minor mounting of the heatsink
and a couple of plates that need to go on
before we even bring the CPU.
And what we're going to be using here is the cooler master.
This is the HYPER 212 EVO
and we've kind of got an unboxing going on here
and you can kind of see the parts
and the components that are here.
We have our warranty information,
we've got our user manual.
There's actually a little bit of thermal compound that they gave us,
a couple of bracketing mounts
because this works for Intel chips
as well as it works for AMD chips.
Got a series of the bolts and screws,
got the little mounting bracket
that's actually going to sit under the heat pipes on the CPU
and actually bolt it to the motherboard.
And then here is the mounting plate
that we have to install on the back of the motherboard.
So we actually have to flip the motherboard over
in order to get this to work.
So, before we start doing that,
what I'm going to do is I'm going to put
a couple of these pieces to the side
because anybody that knows me
knows I was born with two left feet,
I'll probably knock something over here.
So we'll go ahead
and just kind of set some of this stuff to the side,
give ourselves a little bit more working room.
And what I want to talk about first
is mounting this backplate here.
This backplate actually sits on the back of the motherboard,
and that's going to help us to attach that to the motherboard.
So first things first, we're going to work
with these bolts here and these little cups.
And what you do here
is you're actually going to take this bolt
and you're going to kind of thread it through that cup
and it should just kind of snap in place.
You can see it's kind of seated there
and the threaded post is over here.
Now, at this point, what we're going to do
is we're going to take our motherboard
and we're going to look for a couple of pre-drilled holes.
You'll see if I kind of move this up,
you can see there's four holes around the base of this seat
or the perimeter of this CPU, and that's what we're looking for.
In order to do this, what you're going to do
is you're going to actually drop the first one in here
and then you can hold that in
and turn the motherboard over.
And let me kind of hold that and see where you can see
that that's actually kind of protruding right there.
And then at this point,
we're going to take our backplate here
and just gently kind of just move it a little bit.
These machine threads might be a little bit tight.
You don't want to put any force there,
and you also want to make sure
that it's in the right mounting position.
And for the 1151 socket that we have here,
it's going to be the middle post position.
And then what I'm going to do is
I'm going to just go ahead
and I'm going to just kind of thread this just a little bit,
not much, but just a little bit to get it started.
And then what we'll do
is we'll turn this motherboard back over
and you can see that we've got the first post started.
Now, what I'm going to go ahead
and do is I'll install the other three posts
and when we come back, we're going to move into the next step.
All right, welcome back.
So we went ahead,
we've got the backplate tightened up here,
and let me show you what I did
in order to get that accomplished here.
One of the things that you have to do
is you have to make sure that when you just finger tight,
when you put these on, and then what you're going to do
is you're going to take this little…
it's kind of like a socket on one side.
It's a little tool they give you with the cooler master,
a little Phillips head screwdriver
or even standard screwdriver really on the other side.
And what you can do is you can just put that in place,
and it's kind of like a socket set.
And what you do is you tighten that side of it up
and then you do kind of like a cross pattern,
almost like putting on your tire, if you're changing your tire.
And then we go ahead and do it in a star pattern.
We tighten this side up and then we'll come over here
and we'll tighten this side up.
We make sure that it's tightened down.
And then this side, we'll do the same thing here
and we'll tighten this side down.
And then there we go.
You don't have to put a lot of pressure on there.
It doesn't really take much.
And then we'll go ahead and we'll flip it over.
And now you'll notice
that we have our four post ready to go
and it's time to move on to the next component.
But before we do that, one of the things
that you might notice over here on my tech cam
is that we do have a few components left over.
And I just want to kind of address that so you don't think,
“Oh, what did I do wrong?”
You didn't do anything wrong.
Notice that this has no fan on this side.
Well, these plastic rails are actually
so that you can attach, if you wanted to, another fan
so you can have two fans
on the each side of this cooler master.
So I'm going to bring out our little cooler master box here,
and we're going to just set these to the side for now.
These are the screws,
and I'm going to keep them around in case we decide
that maybe we want an additional fan put on here.
So definitely save these.
We'll put these to the side.
Now these other four bolts,
again, you didn't do anything wrong or screws, if you will.
This is for a different type of socket
than the one that we have on this motherboard.
I believe it's for a 2011 socket.
So we're going to go ahead and we'll put these to the side.
And for now, we don't really need this little tool here that we used.
So we'll put that there as well.
I told you that we weren't going to use
the thermal compound that came with it.
If you remember one of the things we said
for our components is we're going to be using Arctic Silver.
So I'm going to go ahead
and I'm going to put those to the side as well.
So that's got the next stage ready.
And now really, what it comes,
time to do is really bring this guy up to the table here,
and that is our i5 processor.
And you can kind of see, this is what we got here.
We've got one of our ninth gen processors here,
and it's time to put this into the motherboard.
We went ahead and while we were taking care of that backplate,
I went ahead and unboxed the processor here.
We've got our processor right there.
And you might have noticed
that we've got a massive heatsink, all right.
This is the stock Intel heatsink that comes with it.
We're not going to be using the stock heatsink.
We're going to be using this aftermarket
to try to get a little bit more cooling.
I will tell you, though, there's nothing wrong with these.
These are actually relatively easy to install
by comparison to the cooler master.
But what I'm trying to achieve here
is to get a little bit better cooling out of the bigger heatsink.
So that is the next step here.
And in order to do this, what we need to do
is we need to prepare the motherboard and the CPU,
and get it ready to first drop the CPU in,
and then we have to install our thermal compound.
So I'm going to go ahead and clean our bench up,
and when we come back, we'll move on to that step.
All right. So here we go.
It's time to go ahead and put our CPU in here.
And we're going to start right here on the motherboard
because we have to take off a dust cover
that's on the motherboard to start with.
And very easy to do this.
It's just a little plastic piece and you've got a little remove lever.
You just pull it off, that's all it is,
we're just going to set that to the side.
Now, something I want you to pay close attention to
is there's this little triangle right here you'll notice.
That is important to remember that triangle
and I'll show you in a second.
This little latch is the next thing that we're going to do,
and what we're going to do
is just kind of pull that latch back.
The latch will come up.
You'll notice that the whole entire cover slides back,
and what we're going to do
is just lift this socket cover, the LGA socket cover up.
Now again, I want you to pay attention.
Remember that the triangle was up here
on this side of the processor socket.
And if we take a look at our processor itself,
what we're searching for is that little golden triangle.
And you can see it down here in the bottom here.
And there are a couple of notches
on the top of this processor.
That lets us know how we're going to line it up.
We're going to put that triangle in the same position
that we see it on the socket, and they do that again
to denote what's known as PIN one.
So the next thing I'll do is I'm going to go ahead
and I'm just going to open our CPU here,
and it'll be very, very mindful
of not trying to touch the top of this at all
or touch any of the circuitry.
I'm just holding it by.
And let me show you here on the tech camp real quick,
just holding it on the side
so that we don't actually touch anything.
Now we've got to be very careful with this.
We want to make sure there is no force that is needed,
it is literally just setting it down into its seat.
So let's go ahead and we're going to do exactly that.
We're going to find our triangle,
which is up towards the front,
and we're just going to lay this right down in
and you'll notice it fits right in place.
It's snug, it doesn't take any force at all.
Remember, our triangle is up there,
it's where it needs to be, it's ready to go.
And what we're going to do
is we're just going to take this socket cover.
We're going to just pull it back down,
make sure it lines up with this little bolt here,
and we're just going to go ahead
and we're going to force this back down.
And with a little bit of pressure,
we're going to lock this CPU in place.
Now our CPU is locked in place.
The next thing we're going to do is we're going to take
that little bit of thermal compound that we had mentioned,
and we're just going to put a little bit of thermal compound
right on the top of the CPU.
And there's a couple of different ways that you can do this.
Some people talk about doing a line or an X or smearing it.
I'm going to go with a tried and true method
of really just putting a pea-sized dot right in the middle.
We just want to make sure
that there's just enough to cover the course of the CPU.
So you'll notice I'm just going to put a little pea-sized dot
and I kind of just pulled it off to the side,
because this stuff, boy, I tell you what,
when this stuff gets on some things,
it certainly can get very messy and we don't want
to have that hit any bit of the motherboard
and we don't want to get down
to the sides of the dye of the chip.
Remember that Arctic silver is electrically conductive,
and it could short out, so you have to be very careful
with the thermal compound.
Now, the next thing that we have to do
is we have to set up to put our bracket in place.
And what you have to do
is we have to kind of thread this through here,
and then when we do that, we're going to line it up
and we're going to go ahead and mount it finally,
and we'll screw the heatsink on
and we'll have our processor installed.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
the last thing that we have to do is actually mount
the heatsink down onto the top of the CPU.
And if we look at our tech cam here,
you can see that we went ahead and we took the brace
and we've already put it underneath the heatsink in
just above the metal plate that attaches to the…
or will snug up against the CPU.
And then it's just a matter of taking your screws,
lining them up, and then just tightening them
in kind of like an X pattern here,
just like we did when we did the bottom plate,
that'll be important.
And again, you can just keep doing little turns.
They're just little turns back in that star pattern,
just again, like kind of like, you're changing a tire
and just work through it until they tighten up good.
It looks like these are these are good and tight and ready to go.
And then there you have it.
You have your heatsink is mounted.
If it gives you a little bit of a problem, that's okay.
Just kind of bear with it, just finger tighten them
if you have to when you start.
Again, this is a multi-vendor heatsink,
so it works on AMD and Intel.
And then one of the last things that we're going to do
is we're just going to take this fan
and we're going to put it back into its original position,
and just a little bit of a clip here,
and it should fit right into place.
And I went ahead and what I did is I tied
a little knot in this for a little bit better cable management.
And what that'll help you do
is when you plug this into the system board,
when we do our connections later on,
it'll make sure that there's not a lot of slack there.
But there you go.
You can see we now have our cooler master heatsink
on top of our i5 processor.
So in this episode, that's one of the things we wanted to do.
If it gives you a little bit of a hard time, it's okay.
Just take your time,
make sure you're using good thermal compound,
make sure you pay attention to the vendor's specifications,
and that essentially is how you install your CPU
and your heatsink to keep the CPU cool.
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