How to Install an Intel CPU in a Motherboard

Video Transcript

"Okay, to install a CPU, you're going to make sure that first off you're very careful 'cause at the bottom of a CPU, there are many many many little pins that go into a socket on the motherboard. B, you need to be careful as well that you don't shock it because it's a three hundred dollar piece of machinery that you have in our hand, three to five hundred dollars, depending on how much you spend. C, you also want to remember that you use enough grease to... thermal grease to dissipate the heat between the actual CPU and the fan because these CPUs can put out up to a hundred and some odd degrees very very quickly, within seconds an of being turned on. So that's why there's always these big massive fans on top of each CPU, so in my case I have a Pentium four processor here, a little older than what's out now, but definitely the standard of about three or four years ago as an example for you. And I have this CPU here. This CPU back when I bought it was probably four hundred dollars, but you see there's a lot of thermal grease on it already because I had it in the motherboard and have taken it out to show you. Then on the bottom there are these little pins here that will... basically they fit into each the socket on the motherboard itself. The socket it here with this little metal arm that you pull up that releases the pins so you can pull out the processor itself. So right now, the little lever is up on the motherboard and on the newer motherboards that lever is still there even though maybe the pins aren't there, but you'll still see the lever. So you pull the lever up, you place it in. There's always a little triangle on one of the corners of the processor here, and in this case the triangle is here and you match it up with the pin configuration on the motherboard itself. So where the triangle is you'll see a blank in the pin pattern on the plastic itself, so with the arm up, I'm going to slide it in here and it fits right into place and the pins go into the pin connectors here. And you pull this arm down and it locks the plastic into place. You put the grease on and then you attach the heat sync here. And with the heat sink it'll pull the hot air off of the processor and blow it up into the case and then there will be other fans inside of the case that pull that hot air out into your living room or wherever the computer is and that's how the processor stays cool. On some other really really fast processors they have water cooled systems. They don't use the fan right here on top of the processor, but a fan later on like a radiator in your car. So that's a little different, a little bit more than what I wanted to pay. So, and that's pretty much it. And that's how you install a CPU."