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unless you're traveling abroad plugging in your favorite electronics to up wall sockets is a piece of cake that is assuming you can find one and you're not at a crowded Starbucks where it seems like the entire town is hogging every outlet but if you've ever built a PC you know that plugging in components requires a little more attention than just ordering an overpriced latte and finding a comfy chair there are different connectors for everything inside a PC and CPU sockets are no exception and unlike something like PCI Express which uses the same type of connector for lots of different adding components nearly every new CPU lineup uses its own socket or if it does there are software or firmware interoperability x' anyway and this can be quite confusing so let's break it down for you starting with Intel sockets a while back Intel used CPUs with pins on the bottom that slot it into these little pin grid things on the motherboard and actually before that some even used cartridges like the old Pentium 2 kind of like a Nintendo game on the bottom these days though Intel desktop processors use a mounting system called land grid array better known as LGA all this means is that the bottom of the CPU has electric contact pads while the pins themselves are in the socket on the motherboard I guess LGA was a better acronym than calling it pins on socket or POS now if you're buying an Intel CPU you'll see that the socket identifier will be something along the lines of LGA 1151 or LGA 2011 these numbers just indicate how many pins are on the bottom of the socket and pads on the bottom of the CPU and if you're wondering why they need so many by the way a big part of the reason is power delivery CPUs especially some of them can consume a lot of power and dividing it between many different pins actually helps to stabilize it so the processor doesn't become overloaded now if you're more of a fan of the red team and you want to buy an AMD CPU AMD also ditched the cartridge system a long time ago but stuck with the pins on the bottom of the CPU at least on their consumer desktop processors so they're using a system called pin grid array or PGA here the socket itself still has the little holes for inserting the pins of the CPU now AMD doesn't use the same naming scheme as Intel so don't expect to see things like PGA 9:42 when you buy instead you'll see names like FM 2 or am3+ 4 there a series AP use and their FX CPUs respectively or a.m. 4 for their upcoming Zen architecture chips but regardless of which side you're on in the CPU war remember that both Intel and AMD chips do not require any direct pressure on the chip in order to be properly inserted if you're pushing down on them you're probably doing it wrong instead modern CPUs are held in with retention arms this is because the pins on the socket or the CPU are very fragile and pushing down on the processor can easily damage your processor the motherboard or both especially if they're misaligned instead gently place your CPU into the socket and make sure it is properly aligned before putting down the retention arm we actually have guides on how to do this in some of the earliest videos on tech quickie which you check out here and here of course you'll need a CPU cooler as well and although many popular coolers these days support most modern sockets it's a good idea to confirm that your socket will work with the heatsink you bought unless of course you're interested in trying to turn your processor into the world's smallest frying pan speaking of sockets if you're looking for something to plug into your headphone jack master op has another one of their killer deals going on today the mass drop AKG K 7 xx red Edition headphones are currently available over there at the exclusive price of just $1.99 which is a whopping four hundred and fifty dollar savings over MSRP they're individually tested and numbered they're open-back headphones they sound absolutely great reviewed the non-red version of them a little while ago on my other channel and they only exist because of mass drops close collaboration with AKG to bring this products to life so over on mass drop linked in the video description you can find these kinds of collaborative products as well as just any product where mass drop went to the manufacturer said hey can we get a deal when to the consumers as it hey can a bunch of you commit to buy and put those two things together so a head on over there again that's linked in the video description it's draw dots slash tech quickie so go check it out so thanks for watching guys if you like this video like it if you disliked it dislike it if you want to check out our other channels boo-boom channel super funds right over there and if you want to comment with video suggestions do that down there and don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any fast as possible just like this one