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building or upgrading a new computer especially for a new builder could be extremely daunting and nerve-racking so that's why I jsut sense we're gonna start a new series here of easy to consume bite-sized content covering everything from us basic as CPU installations all the way up to is advanced as high-end rigid tubing water cooling so that's why we're gonna kick off this series here with a basic how to install your CPU because I think that's one of the more nerve-wracking things for a new builder they're worried about damaging their CPU or their pins and today we're aiming to show you just how easy it really is and you don't have to be scared it's a whole point of these videos the new dg7 series cases from EVGA off for PC enthusiasts more of what they love like tempered glass side panels vertical GPU mount integrated RGB control board DG tuner and an awesome three year warranty to learn more about the DG seven series of cases from EVGA head to the link in the description below so today we're gonna be covering the four main platforms that you'll encounter and this pretty much applies to current gen stuff and even past gen stuff it's gonna cover about 99% of what you can expect we're gonna do Intel mainstream AMD mainstream Intel extreme and AMD extreme what we've got right here is a Z 370 motherboard but the socket retention systems been the same for about over 10 years now so this is going to apply and this is our CPU right here this is actually I 5 8400 now this is the way it's gonna come out of the box it's gonna have this little cover on it it's gonna have this little lever and we're gonna leave the cover on a mistake a lot of people make is they take the cover off which exposes the pins and the pins are the delicate part of an intel mainstream you can see here there's no pins on the CPU well that's because the pins are on the motherboard so you take this lever push it out so it comes around this little arm and then you swing it up it will then release from this little screw right here and you can flip the holes the whole lid back now if you look on the corner of the CPU you're gonna notice a gold triangle and that's gonna align with a gold triangle that's on the corner of the socket now you're also going to notice there's two notches are at the top of the mainstream CPUs on Intel those are also going to line with two notches that exist right here in the socket so take your fingertips fold it on the side just like this you don't want to get any oils and stuff on the bottom and you're gonna just drop it right down in the center of the socket and you'll notice those little tabs online and then the corner of the arrow is pointing into the soccer there give it a little wiggle to make sure it's seated leave the cover on you're gonna fold the lid back down align it under the screw right there and when you push this lever down the lid is gonna pop off and you're gonna line the lever under that tab and you've now just installed your Intel mainstream seat view now AMD mainstream is very very similar only what you're going to notice with an AMD CPU is the pins are located on the CPU itself at least on the mainstream AMD thread rippers different we'll talk about that in a second so what we're gonna do here is the same thing there's no cover on an AMD CPU but you're gonna pull the lever out and fold it back and you can see the whole mechanism kind of moves when you do that so that's what that way when you push it down it slides and makes contact with the pins but just like the Intel CPU but we've got a gold arrow right on the corner and it might be hard to pick up on camera but we have a arrow right here in the corner of the socket as well there's no notches on this one just the arrow that you have to line up but you're gonna line the arrows up you're gonna sort of align the pins with the holes and it will just drop down give a little wiggle make sure it's in push the lever down snap it in place and now your AMD main stream is installed now the Intel Extreme platform like the X 79 X 99 X 299 is going to be very similar to the main stream only you're going to notice that the retention system here has two levers so you're gonna actually have to read you have to do this lever on the left side first then this lever on the right side and when you do that they'll fold apart and then you can fold this back so unlike mainstream or goes up this one folds back and you'll notice here not only do we have the gold arrow once again we also have two sets of tabs so those two little notches right here and two more notches on the top but these have different offsets so it can only go in one way a tip I like to use is look at the writing on the CPU orient that upside down and you now have it facing the right way to go into the socket so be gentle push it down give it a little bit of a wiggle make sure it's in place fold the lid down do the right side tab first do the left side tab and this will pop off in this case it didn't but then you can just pop it up there's your installed extreme series Intel CPU now thread Ripper is brand spankin new this is a TR four socket this one actually requires a tool and all thread Ripper CPUs come with the required tool now what we're gonna do here is we have to pull off this retention bracket and if you look right here on the socket itself you can see we've got a close and it says one two three that's the order that you tighten down the screws and to open it it's the reverse three two one so to open it we're gonna loosen up number three which is this corner cuz it's marked they are captive so these screws will not fall out and loosen up to and loosen up one and this is spring-loaded so as soon as that comes loose it pops up just like that nobody had this other mechanism in here it's sort of a sort of a tray or a sled you're gonna grab this little piece right here it's a little tab and you're gonna pull up and it's gonna have a little bit of resistance to it but it will pop up and then you're gonna slide this guy out just like this now this is our socket retention cover this is going to protect our pins until we install so I don't like to remove this until I'm actually ready to close the lid now here is your thread Ripper CPU it's got this orange sort of a cassette we leave this in some mistakes people make as they pop this off we leave this on and we are going to slide it into this rail system now if you kind of look right here you're gonna see there's a there's a rail on either side and that rail aligns with this orange cassette so with the pins side of the CPU facing up technically we were just gonna slide this down just like that until it snaps into place and now we are ready to remove this cover right here and to remove it there's two little grab points where it says remove just pop that up take the cassette snap it down into place then you can take your lid and push that down now to close it you're gonna go in the order it says one two three so we're just gonna start number one we're not gonna be tightening it down fully yet get the threads started on number two get the threads started on number three and this is technically a torque wrench it's already set to the proper torque specs for this socket so once we started the threads and all three of them go back to one and turn it until the little knob clicks just like that so one is now good go to two and do the same thing until the torque wrench clicks and then do the same thing for number three till it clicks just like that now don't go past where it clicks some mistakes people have made is they keep turning and then they actually snap the head right off the screw on their socket so once it clicks that's it you're set so there you go guys it's just that simple that is how you install a CPU on pretty much any platform now in 2017 and probably forward and backwards as well it's not that hard once it's in place everything's pretty much ready to go for your cooler and continue on with your bill every guys thanks for watching and we'll see you in our next video