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so this will be one of the last in my series of CPU installation tutorials now this is actually what is this this is an AM to motherboard okay so you can see it's got the four bolt through okay which is standard for a.m. to the older LG are from LGA the older socket 754 and 939 only had two bolts but they did have the same clip system that AMD uses with a m2 m2 plus m3 754 and nine three nine so this is going to be the same CPU installation procedure regardless of which one of those sockets you're using so this particular one yeah there you can see it's a socket am-2 right there so it's 940 pins as I recall so TPU now with the Intel installation videos I did you can see that there was a protective cover over the socket on the motherboard not the case with AMD these are not fragile as long as you don't manage to like drop metal shards or something inside those holes you're not going to run into any problems with physical contact with the socket with AMD CPUs at least the consumer ones at this point the fragile part is actually on the CPU itself so this is an AMD sempron if they usually come in this kind of a clamshell with with a fuzzy bit at the bottom and the reason for that is that the CPU actually has all of the pins on it so you can see this one I have not managed to bend any of the pins on yet and notorious for accidentally bending pins on CPUs but I'm quite good at fixing them at this point that's the good news so I got my Sempron what is this a 3,000 plus or something I don't know what it is haven't used this guy in a while three four hundred I don't know okay so CPU installation on a.m. 2 a.m. 3 + 2 + a.m. 3 plus if that ever exists I have no idea is fairly straightforward you see this little golden triangle on the corner of the CPU I don't mean the circle on this side I mean the triangle here that's going to correspond to a triangle on the CPU socket so ah this is going to be tough for you to see and I apologize in advance for that but I'm going see how close I can get here to give you a good look at that triangle so it's on the corner that I'm showing you right now I'm gonna try and get you a better look at it if I can you see it's probably just a matter of getting the lighting just right hope I'm looking at the right yeah so it's actually okay I might just have to describe it oh no there we go okay I think you can see it now if I kind of cover it a little bit okay anyway there's a little plastic indent in the shape of a triangle so you line that up I didn't even cover the first step first up is you take the lever here and lift it up okay so you see the socket actually moves a little bit when you do that that's not the motherboard moving that's the socket so this is a zip or zero insertion force socket which means when I line up the triangle with the other triangle ah now you can see it hey that's perfect with the other triangle and I place it on top there you go it dropped here I'll do this from the side but it dropped right into the socket without me pressing it in at all so I just kind of take it line it up and then Boop it's in that's all it takes so there's there's no real force required I mean when you push down the lever there's a tiny bit but it's not at all like the Intel sockets that was it then you install your cooler so I removed it from the protective clamshell which has the little fuzzy on the bottom to protect the pins and then put it in the socket pretty simple thanks for checking out my installation video for a.m. to me MV into plus 750 $4.99 that's it oh I'm trying to hit the end recording button but it's not working let's try this one more time