Sign in with Sign up | Sign in  How to install an Intel CPU.  1
solved thread  This Tutorial addresses: How to install a CPU
might appear to be a simple task but it is far from that.[/b]
There are many models and socket versions of CPUs and years ago
there actually were pins on the CPU itself and the socket had
holes for those pins.  It took a good deal of patience to insert
the CPU into the socket and line up those pins so that there was
not one or many out of line and potentially getting bent as the
CPU was lowered into the socket. Tat has changed over the years
to what is now a better method and less chance for bent pinsbut
it has not completely been eliminated and you can still bend
some pin type connections.  This picture is of a CPU socket that
has some bent pins and it is most definitely not something that
you want to see as there is no way to straighten out these bent
pins. They are specially folded pieces of metal that line up
with the metal points on the CPU and once bent the motherboard
is no long