I feel like this could have been a two minute video, and that's being generous with all the explanation.

Just a note, it's not a good idea to touch the gold plates on the back of the cpu, as your finger oil will corrupt connection integrity. It's better to just hold it by the sides, and not touch any of the electronics.

Awesome video mate thanks, especially for the tips about thermal paste and backplate compatibility. Even if this short vid stops one person mangling their pins it's worth it! Been there and dont wish to repeat!

my cheeks clenched when you tried to pick it back up

This video is hilarious. After watching this video 70% of the people will be scared as hell to install a CPU by themselves. 😂😂😂

Although it was an informative video, I would recommend to anyone reading the comments to NEVER touch the underside of the processor! The oils from your fingers can get on the pads not to mention anything else that might be your hands. And NEVER place the processor pad side down on a table. It should go from the protective case it came in, to the socket. Don't fiddle fuck around with it. You risk contaminating the socket with dust and other crap you might have on the surface you placed it on. unbox it --> insert in socket. Period. Cheers!

Thanks for the warning about the paste slapping the CPU onto the pins when lifting it out. I will hold the CPU down with my finger while lifting the trnsion bracket. ❤️

Nice, I've always been an AMD guy and this is very helpful. I'm upgrading from an AM3 system to AM5 😁

Do a vlog showing installation of thermalright ASF AM5 cpu holder. It prevents bending of cpu and mobo. It also prevents thermal paste leaking down the side of the cpu.

thank you, wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with the cover now it's very clear

The thermal paste over spilling a bit (being squeezed out - after you screw down your cooler) usually isn't a problem - - - except, if you use liquid metal. All you know is your pc is up and running and you're happy - on with life. Meanwhile, over time, that liquid metal is secretly acting like an acid and eroding those metal parts outside of the cooler contact area - that it spilled over. Problems may arise later.

Thanks for taking time in explaining this. At the very least, builders should take their time at this step especially. I am wondering if bent socket pins is grounds for the manufacturer to void the warranty? I do know there is a note with my motherboard (MSI) that says boards returned without a socket cap will not be accepted.

there is a rubber rim thing for the cpu to stop stuff going near the silicon

Great tips, thanks!

thanks for this! as many times as I've built over the years, I'm still just a hobbyist... it's been a while, and never hurts to learn the latest tricks when you're putting a $600 chip on a $400 mobo! ❤

Useful tips. Got one of these coming in a week now that less expensive b650 mobos are out.

Great video! Thanks so much! Question… do you have a preference on thermal paste?

thx a ton! Upgrading to 7900x from threadripper 2950x

Is that normal on the ryzen 7000 cpus? It looks like it has a thin blister/bubble like thing at the lower side. Great video btw.😊

This reminds me of haswell days. That’s the last intel I built. I’ve been on ryzen since. Good to see LGA is still the same. Thank you. Me too brother! Waiting on the $3.99 ek 6/32 screw set. Cost me $14 for 4 screws. I wish Microcenter had them. I looked yesterday when I was picking up my order but nope! I grabbed a Corsair h150i rgb elite to use while I wait for the screws and a few fittings. I could have used my 240mm h100i pro, but I don’t like loud fans and it’s time for a new AIO. I switch coolers a fair amount. Get fed up with custom loop go back to aio. Rinse and repeat

Appreciate your hard work. I have ordered a AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and want to add it to Asus TUF Gaming B650 Motherboard. I wanted to know if i need to use thermal paste after adding CPU? I guess the CPU Comes with a CPU Cooler from AMD (Fan CPU Cooler) but not sure.

I gotta be honest, I like the new socket and locking system. I remember when I installed my first am4 cpu and had to reseat it and remove the heat sink, the heat sink ripped out the locked cpu and a bunch of pins got bent. Never had the ripping out with the cpu happen with lga sockets. I was lucky the cpu was just a placeholder for a later upgrade, so I just upgraded earlier :D

Hi, just doing this process myself, and i was wondering, i was looking at the pegs in the motherboard, and they all look bent inwards into the center, where the black line is, and i dont want to force the cpu in, is this part of the mother board or should i return it?

Also DO NOT EVER Touch the gold pads on bottom of the CPU! EVER. Any tiny grease or contamination on your fingers will damage the gold and even cause conductive issues / heat issues

Thanks For the Advice, I'm just building my Ryzen 7700 non X Cpu with a Gigabyte B650e ITX board , the CPU install to me is Scary, Thanks

Okay so I know I am a year late to the party but I am about to build my first AM5 build. After watching this video and seeing how one must be careful about thermal paste in light of the AM5's design how much paste should one apply?

I just want to know if i have a new Mobo and new Ryzen 9 7000x, seems like it can just be put in the socket, my main concern is Thermal paste. I read its required if its being re-installed, but is thermal paste required for the first installs? ROG STRIX X670 mbo. Cause the video shows no thermal paste being applied until its mentioned at the end.

2:48 what was that about needing a different adapter backplate for x670e mobo? Im having troubles with mine. Its at 100°c + in the bios ☹️

If you bent those pins it will not kill the motherboard. I messed up before used tweezer and plastic card bent back 8 to 10 pins in place and its working fine.

My first build was with an am4 cpu and I bent one pin, ONE. And thought the whole pc was dead. Think this way is better

if i installed it without the black plastic piece is that bad?

waiting for killer combo 7700x and b650 not E its should be really good value/perfomance ratio

Damn I dropped mine in pretty fast at one point i might have to remove it and check for any bent pins

Will a corsair h100i aio work?

can I mount it on a mini itx asrock motherboard?

7:20 Or you can just hold the CPU down when lifting the lid/ latch

why they dont use sockets like AM2-4 anymore? it was much more foolproof

Might be best to put the cap back on after you've released the latch but before you take the CPU out

My socket was really hard to close. Felt like it was going to crack the cpu. Havent that problem with any other videos

Just put a finger on the CPU holding it down while opening the latch and lifting the hold down bracket to keep thermal paste from lifting the CPU potentially dropping it onto the pins

Thanks

mine acidentally fell in acid will it still work?

I'm only just switching over from AM4 to AM5 and I'm aware of almost every shortfalls on the CPU old pin array setup. Many times I had to use my credit card to straighten out those bent pins. Nevertheless, I don't want to go into this blindly, your video has put me in good stead and thank you for over extending the things that could possibly go wrong with AM5.

5:09 if you want to know how to install the cpu 😂

Although your video is roughly 8 months old, I just stumbled across it and watched it because I have been kicking around the idea of building an AMD Ryzen 7900 AM5 system and I’ve always been very concerned about accidentally ‘bending pins’ - in the past - on the AMD and now that worry has been transferred to worry about bending pins in a motherboard’s socket. (“You never get something for nothing…!) Anyway, as a result I watched your video and as I did, a few ideas which may or may not have merit ‘popped into my mind’. (Before I go any further, I am especially concerned more than many people because I’m 77 years old and “mine hands, they ain’t as steady as they used to be” and, ‘ditto’, when it comes to my ‘grip’ on things and I am probably considerably more likely to drop in situations like this then most people and so, as I watched your video, I wondered if I could come up with some POSSIBLE GOOD IDEAS to mitigate the risk. Now, I have never built a PC for myself wherein the pins were in the motherboard but, after roughly watching your video, here are a couple of ideas I had, that PERHAPS you might wish to consider and assess - based on your experience in this area which I do not have - whether or not they might have merit. Here goes: First of all, one concerned is - as you pointed out - that one might conceivably drop the processor accidentally onto the pins in the socket, perhaps at an ANGLE, resulting in damage the pins, something could obviously happen. So what you think of THIS IDEA: Might it be possible and useful in a safety sense to - say - cutting a strip of suitably wide and suitably long PAPER from say an 8.5” x 11” printer paper AND, laying it down and possibly even using without being too excessive and going crazy with it - perhaps some cellophane tape to hold it in place while you proceed to POSITION the processor over the socket and its pins while you do this AND, once the processor is ‘100% in the right location’, while holding the processor in position to prevent it from moving sideways or up and down, pulling/siding the paper out from underneath the CPU - GENTLY, so that the processor simply has to/can - perhaps - space wise - if it happened to be constrained by the orientation pins and indentations, from moving laterally? A slight variation on this: What if two pieces of paper were used - they might even and probably shouldn’t could OVERLAP a bit in the middle of the socket protect all the pins. The idea here would be that one might then say - pull only one strip of the paper out - at which ever end seems more appropriate - in the sense that it would be the first and to ‘receive pressure’ as one turned the lever to lock the processor in place. Perhaps simply flipping the lever over and letting whatever light pressure it might exert on the processor would be sufficient enough to permit the second piece of paper to be slid out from underneath the CPU such that the entire processor drops into place? Another idea might be to - if one could conceive of some gentle way - of creating a little platform made of wood perhaps - and be careful not to drop it - to which say of thread could be attached which in turn could be appropriately sufficiently well attached - stuck to the top four corners of the CPU - which could then be spent the processor - dangling from these threads - over the socket and maneuvered precisely into place - for attempting to lock it down. Then, when the processor was in precisely the right location, one could probably - I would imagine - after watching the entire process - managed to find a way to disconnect or cut the threads in question either close to the platform from which they were hanging OR - as close as possible to the CPU ASSUMING that you don’t want to try to COMPLETELY remove them/pull them off - until the clamping lever was fully seated and locked in place? I think you’ll probably get the idea from the description I’ve given. Another way to think about it: Imagine how space sex manages to PRECISELY - HAVE TO PRECISELY POSITION the upper stages of Falcon 9 AND Starship rockets - to straightly tiny fractions of an inch - before lowering them into place and perhaps installing some sort of explosive bowls or something - to fasten them together? They do it by dangling the upper stages and slowly but surely maneuvering them around and positioning them before finally lowering them in place. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on the matter, YOU having had hands on experience in doing this. This may be overkill for some people but, I can assure you - for older people whose hands and grips may not be that steady, if it would work, I think it would be worth trying to do it using some sort of say - dangle the CPU from a sort of ‘fixture’ using say at least three, possibly four pieces of thread and then simply lowering the CPU precisely into position. Whad ya think?

honestly, it seems like if you are just putting in the cpu the way you should be doing it anyway, it's pretty hard to break any pins on the motherboard

I've used LGA CPU's for many years, never damaged a mobo yet.

Fitting the CPU is pretty much foolproof due to the two grooves top and bottom on the CPU which are left of the centre of the CPU and line up with the grooves in the motherboards CPU socket.

I've had so many more issues with PGA sockets than with LGA sockets

"thank you"✨

Over the years, I've never had an issue with LGA socket. So straight forward and never damage a pin on the board. But on a AM3 CPU, an AMD phenom 955 and I was removing the heatsink, the thermal paste stuck solid and I pulled the CPU out the locked socket and bent 3 pins, I manage to get the pins straighten enough to fit back into the socket and locked it back into position and I was extremely lucky it booted and that CPU went on for another 2 years before I upgraded.

i'm going to build my new AMD 7800X3D pc this weekend. I'm already nervous for putting the cpu on the motherboard.

Query I have a ryzen 5900x with a liquid aorus waterface 360 ​​version one of the aorus water cooling since the x360 version of aorus has now come out - my liquid will serve me to be able to mount my aorus master x670e and ryzen 7800x3d motherboard if the anchorage of my liquid am4 It will help me to install and what temperatures should I have when playing greetings from Chile thanks

I remove protect cover and than install CPU ........its work

I have the Corsair h150i elite 360mm cooler and I was wondering if you think I’ll need an adapter or not? I just got the 7950x off launch and If you have any info on if it should fit I would appreciate it

I don't wish to criticise but when you put the CPU into the socket GENTLY a little wiggle is needed to make sure that the CPU is seated properly just like with Intel LGA CPU's.

aio work it right???

most importantly, try to touch the underside of the CPU with your fingers as often as you can.

the processor is very accurate because many people's pc does not work after building. you have to put the processor correctly again.

It's really not hard to prevent damaging your motherboard/socket pins. I've been building PC's since 1995. Have never damaged a single socket. Just place it in and close the lid. They only fit in one way.

Hi.What type of cooler is better for 7700x? .Air cooler or Liquid.I like Dark Rock Pro 4 and Pure Loop 2 and FX.I am afraid for liqiud cooler it will cause damage later

Брат, у меня туго закрывался сокет, с раза третьего закрыл, это же норм? Ничего что не с первого раза закрыл? Сидит как влитой)))

oof idk why i feel so unconfortable when you touch the golden pads on the processor with your fingers, i mean sure you might get lucky and nothing happens but still.

I prefer to install mine with the heat spreader on the pins

Why not just use 2 hands if u need more grip on the cpu. I have small hands so that's how I would do it.

man going to miss the classic amd cpu installation method 😅

Wish I saw this before I killed my board. My first install went fine, but the second time I decided to slightly smudge the CPU into place and that put the board out of commission. (Still thinking on the easiest way to get the CPU out if that happens.. Tilt the board?) They really do seem to be annoying to remove. Despite the snobby know-it-alls in the comments, I appreciate the explanation and video.

2-minute video made into 9.5-minute video...

Amd used PGA which was more robust and harder to damage and they support the same motherboard for multiple generations so when you need to upgrade you didn't have to buy all new hardware because of compatibility issues, which is why I switched to amd. Now I have no reason to stay, because amd no longer supports my motherboard When it comes time for upgrade I'm going back to Intel because I'm going to need all new hardware again. I didn't even get to benefit from using the motherboard for more than one cpu.😢

forget the paste buy a thermal pad those are worth the extra. My CPU does not rise above 37C-38C, heavy gamming load mind you. It is 2.00mm thick. Gelid Solutions GP-Extreme 2.0mm Thermal Pad

why go the complicated route ? just place the cpu facing the connector side up and drop the motherboard facing down onto it. 1% of the time, it works every time!

This guy forgot something - the first verification is that all mother board pins are aligned. One bent pin and bye bye CPU.

Another question that occurred to me - might it be possible to do and TO DO IT WITHOUT CAUSING ANY DAMAGE - to use say very mild magnetism - to, I will give to possible uses here - EXTRACT A CPU FROM ITS SOCKET IF ONE WANTED TO and, in the second case, to hold a CPU in position while one was attempting position it to Cicely in place when installing it in the first place? One might imagine a MAGNET - POTENTIALLY A ROUND ONE PROBABLY - inside of a two - that could be slowly moved closer and closer to the top of the CPU - until it exerted just enough force/attraction to cause the CPU to say pop off of its/out of its socket and snap into position at the bottom of the two? Another approach might be to consider using something like - say - a suction cup - on the end of a dowel - and/BUT - with a tiny hole drilled down the center of the doll - which would not have to be all that long - and right through the center of the suction cup. The idea here would be to be able to - by ceiling off the whole in the top temporarily with perhaps something as simple as a piece of scotch tape, pickup the CPU to be mounted in the first place and held firmly while one use the dowel/suction cup move it slide it was honestly over the mounting socket/pins and then gently lower it into place. Once in place, all one would have to do - would be to pull the tape off the end of the dowel and let air leak in and the CPU would remain in the socket? ANOTHER IDEA - YOU CAN BUY THESE THINGS CALLED Sticky Pads ON AMAZON. Basically, and I have several of these around the house and they can be very useful - they are just Inherently Sticky - I sure exactly why perhaps the surface contains zillions of tiny suction cups or something - BUT, I could easily imagine cutting up a Sticky Pad and sticking one end of it to a small round piece of dowel - or even say the center cardboard piece of a roll of toilet paper - and lowering that down on top of a CPU to be mounted into position - and using that to carry/suspend and move the CPU into its proper location before attempting to detach the toilet paper/center cardboard role. The piece of sticky pad left behind - being very flat, could be left in place until the CPU was clamped down/lock down in place and then the sticky pad that was still stuck to the CPU could be simply and very easily - removed - by starting at one corner of it and just very gently peeling it off? AGAIN, WHAT YOU THINK?

mine snapped off the plastc bit and flew like 6 ft. is that normal lol

I hate this new socket on AMD boards as I've already damaged pins on two AM5 boards and its effectively knackered them. It's not even clear what causes them to bend, accidentally dropping the cpu in incorrectly or even friction underside when installing the cooler. One thing is for sure is it's a very costly mistake to make.

Watching you force that chip back out is nightmare fuel 🤯

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄I bend 1 pin of the motherboard. Will it still work What does it mean having bend 1 pin of the motherboard

How to install a Ryzen 7000 processor / How not to handle a Ryzen 7000 processor 😂😂

It's so weird to see AMD's mainstream platform having an LGA socket too.

You just made me scared as F…😂…building my pc as I watch this…

will it run minekraft

Bro put the proccessor gold plate down on the desktop. LOL.

Touching the contact on back of processor is not a good idea

next in series: how to put the socks on

This cpu looks so cursed, do you apply a thermal paste at the sticking edges?

You could watch almost 20-year-old video with Intel socket 775 instead of this. Basically the same thing

I was excited for this generation until I saw the design lol For people with a disability like mine, this could lead to very expensive accidents. I'll be riding out AM4 for as long as possible because I can't afford to pay someone else to build it for me. I can barely afford parts as it is. But I need custom builds for my work, so I have to budget and go for it.

I am also wondering, IF the socket pins are damaged could the socket be easily replaced? It appears there are four hex or torx screws holding the frame/socket to the MB. It also depends on whether the socket is soldered or held on the MB via compression as is the CPU to the socket?

9 minute video for a 30 second procedure

ok

Watching this was making me nervous you where gonna drop the cpu into the land grid array pins🤣 All these years of Amd Fanboyism with pined CPUs and I gotta deal with that mess! I’ve bent pins in Amd chips & fixed it with a razor blade. No way are you fixing those tiny pins.

Every time you pointed at the pins I got scared a little.

oh goodness just place it in gently and lock it down, don't be so nervous.

Are you instructing the VERGE guy?

Latch up, align CPU with the notches, gently place in the socket, fasten latch and then remove cover 🙌⌛ Could have been a 3 minute video 🙄

Pro tip : don't use any napkins to clean thermal paste when the cpu isn't socketed.

I wish the sides were more straight, like most cpu's are. I don't care for the little cut-outs on the sides. I hope AMD will fix this.

What you want to do is eat some fried chicken, not clean your hands, touch the bottom of the cpu and install. It will increase performance by 5%.

I have had two Gigashyte X670E Aorus Master mobos and both of them developed serious BIOS and/or hardware corruptions. I also found 7 Amazon UK reviewers who had similar problems as myself with this mobo. Gigashyte released a defective item to market.

Humanity is failing if they can't line up the arrows THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME PLACE SINCE THE CYRIX CHIP.