Installing Intel Cpu Heatsink Fan

Turn the push pins with a flat bladed screwdriver counterclockwise 90 degrees to release them.

Installing intel cpu heatsink fan.

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. Get it wrong and you could cost yourself hundreds of dollars. To reset the processor fan push pins remove the fan and reinstall it as shown below. Cpu coolers generally come in two varieties.

The video refers to the installation of lga1156 socket processors and fan heat sinks. Installing a new intel processor is an important step of any pc build or upgrade. Here s how to install a new intel cpu without issue. Pull up the push pins.

Visit intel processor installation center for more information on integrating desktop processors. 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. Turn the push pins clockwise 90 degrees to reset them. Before installing a cpu fan and heatsink you ll first have to determine whether you need to apply thermal paste to the cpu.

Remove the fan connector from the fan header. The instructions also apply to lga1155 based processors due to the similarity between the installation processes. This video is about how to install a desktop computer fan. 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.

Computers are complex pieces of technology with many small components that need to run smoothly.