![]() ![]() ![]() And if even one pin isn’t straight, the whole CPU can’t be properly seated in its socket, rendering it kaput unless you can carefully un-bend the pins back to straightness (more on this below). Especially on pre-Ryzen 7000 AMD chips, as those pins on the underside can bend or even snap if you take too heavy a hand. You can tell if you’ve got the correct orientation because the pins should drop fully into the holes without resistance, leaving the CPU sitting perfectly flush with the socket.ĭo not, for the love of all that is good in the world, try to force the CPU into the socket if it doesn’t slot in easily. Older Ryzen CPUs don’t have these notches, so instead, line up the pins on the underside of the chip with the holes in the motherboard socket. Once it's lined up, gently insert the processor so that it’s lying completely flat. Ryzen 7000s also have a little golden triangle in one corner, which should align with a triangle next to one of the socket corners. For Intel or Ryzen 7000 models, look for little notches around the edges of the CPU, then line them up with the small protrusions around the edge of the socket, so you know it’s going in the right way. But you can’t just dunk the CPU in at any orientation. Step 2: The socket and the CPU are now ready to get to know each other. Not by much – less than a few millimetres – but be sure to lift the arm all the way up anyway. On motherboards that take older AMD CPUs, lifting the arm will instead cause the plastic section of the socket to slide sideways. For Intel sockets and the AM5 sockets used by Ryzen 7000 chips, this will release a frame-like metal cover from its locked position – lift this up so it’s no longer obscuring the socket. ![]() Step 1: Remove the plastic cover from your motherboard’s CPU socket – you can’t miss it, there’s only one and it’s CPU-sized – and lift the little metal lever next to it. If you’re nervous about setting your motherboard down on a hard desk, you can use the box it came in as an improvised workbench. This mainly just makes things generally easier – you have more space and light to work with outside of the case, and when the time comes, you can simply fit the mobo with components like the CPU and RAM already attached to it. Installing the CPU is also one of several PC building steps that I recommend completing on the motherboard before you go about installing the latter in the case. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. ![]()
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