Installing Intel Cpu Heatsink Fan

The first is an air cooler which comes with a big metal heat sink and a fan that pulls air away heat from the cpu.

Installing intel cpu heatsink fan.

The boxed fan heat sink installation is the same for both sockets since the fan heat sink footprint is the same. Before installing a cpu fan and heatsink you ll first have to determine whether you need to apply thermal paste to the cpu. Use light top down pressure to place the base plate or waterblock of your cooler onto the cpu and hold that pressure while attaching the cooler to the mounting mechanism. This video is about how to install a desktop computer fan.

Remove the fan connector from the fan header. As we have explained in our what is cpu thermal paste article it is essential to have thermal paste between the cpu and heat sink without it your cpu will run about 20 to 30 c hotter under load. Installing a new intel processor is an important step of any pc build or upgrade. These instructions assume that the boxed processor and fan heat sink are new and the factory applied thermal interface material is applied to the bottom of the fan heat sink.

Visit intel processor installation center for more information on integrating desktop processors. Cpu coolers generally come in two varieties. Get it wrong and you could cost yourself hundreds of dollars. Turn the push pins clockwise 90 degrees to reset them.

Pull up the push pins. Turn the push pins with a flat bladed screwdriver counterclockwise 90 degrees to release them. You ll want to use enough force to keep the cooler from sliding and to evenly distribute the thermal paste but you don t want to push hard enough. To reset the processor fan push pins remove the fan and reinstall it as shown below.

The video refers to the installation of lga1156 socket processors and fan heat sinks.