Install A CPU

Instructions how to install a Central processing unit.

Step 1 Get Ready!

Eliminate any chance of frying your new CPU with static electricity. Your body can carry a slight electric charge. To discharge your body of static- touch something metal occasionally.

Comments

[snowluck2345]

I'd like to see your silver heatsink. I would buy it from you lol. Its aluminum or copper, silver is much to expensive to be used for a normal heatsink. It offers minimal advantages over copper anyways.

[albylovesscience]

i accidentally burned my finger by touching my CPU it still feels raw and flaky

[bowmaster]

They do get pretty hot. Turn off your computer for an hour before you do this. Gives it time to cool.

[Punkguyta]

 an hour?!? lmao, unless you have a 50 pound heatsink it's unlikely that it would take more than 5-10 minutes to cool to room temp.

[bowmaster]

Whoops, I meant to type half an hour.

[Punkguyta]

 Fair enough, have you ever stuck your finger on a bare processor and powered it on?? It's like an endurance test of who can hold the cast iron pan the longest.

Even old pentium 1 processors (the 233 MMX ones) can get VERY hot in a short amount of time.

[bowmaster]

I saw a video of someone boiling water on a 445Mhz processor.

[Punkguyta]

 Orly now?!?

[bowmaster]

Yep, I'll try to find the video.

[bensharn]

well what can i say?

[deranged]

Also don't forget to add thermal paste or the processor temps can rise too high. Especially if there is old thermal compound on the heatsink. It needs to be scraped off and thermal paste put on.

[bensharn]

well, I should have added that but for this install it was a socket 478 p4 2.40 ghz which i never applied thermal paste although on the bottom of the heat sink is a pad.

[Punkguyta]

 I recommend using one or the other, using a thermal pad and thermal paste together would make a huge mess for you later.. trust me. Really you don't need ANY kind of thermal material in there, so long as the heatsink sits FLAT on the processor, but the use of a thermal transducer helps transfer the heat a bit.

[Derin]

then you dont need paste but dont take my word ,do your own research

[bensharn]

actually it was a P4 socket 478 and the heat sink had a thermal pad, I think someone else needs to do there research

[Derin]

hmm,the thermal pad replaces the paste

[bensharn]

no kidding

[Derin]

oh ok:)

[bensharn]

haha

[Derin]

hey we are both brands hehe ur intel im vw