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Installing the CPU

Hi. I'm Allen and welcome to Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to build your very own personal computer. What you're going to do is you're going to get your CPU, which actually this one's in here already, but it's going to come in the box so you'll take it out of the box and like I said it'll either look like this or something smaller depending on the CPU that you decided to get. And you'll see that right here there is either an arrow or you see how it's indented and missing some of the prongs, if you look at that and if you look at it right here on the socket you'll see how it's only going to line up the one way. So pretty much nice and easy if I just go ahead and drop it in place, falls right in place. And depending on the CPU that you have, you'll be able to either locks it in place with a bar like this or there's a couple other type of designs that they have. So it locks right in place. CPU is on the board now. And that's pretty much ready to go. The next thing you're going to do is actually install the heat sink, which comes with the CPU. Of course if you buy the OEM version sometimes they don't or they're not as good as a heat sink. You can always buy additional third party ones. Depending on how cool you want your system to run. Now I usually buy the actual retail versions of the chips. Either AMD or Intel because they come with a better warranty. And they come with the thermal cooler and the fan and everything so your pretty much good to go with the heat sink that comes with it. Now for the most part they all work differently. Some of them actually snap into the sides here. Some of them click on. Now this one, pretty much what your going to do is your going to line up the different holes, right there as you see, it's going to click right on there. And put it on. And let's do the right side there. Just be careful. And then pretty much this side even though... And then that's going to be ready to go. O.k. Next we're going to go ahead and install the power supply.

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