Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Time Stamps. :) Time Stamps 0:00 - intro 0:46 - the first steps 2:02 - CPU cooler removal 2:18 - thermal paste cleanup 2:38 - remove your existing CPU 3:14 - installing your new CPU 4:35 - CPU cooler installation 5:10 - thermal paste application methods 5:36 - important things to know when upgrading 6:12 - know your CPU socket 7:04 - Intel's LGA 1151 socket is a little confusing 8:07 - motherboard chipsets 9:27 - K series processors 10:16 - cheap motherboard + expensive CPU = Please don't! 11:23 - Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! :)

the hand shake when grasping a cpu is inevitable :D

Glad to see a proper explanation when doing a CPU upgrade. I've seen so many that overlook the motherboard sockets. Specially since Intel did what they did with LGA1151. Just as AMD AM4 socket depending on generation only supports certain gen Ryzen CPUs as well.

Legit the easiest tutorial on CPU replacement I’ve seen today, and I went through 16 or so videos

Thank you for the wonderful explanation. I am upgrading from i5 9th gen to a i7 13th gen with an upgraded mobo. I will be using this video to help me upgrade! Wish me luck!

Hey listen, out of everyone gaming pc tech, channel I grow the most and get the most knowledge from watching your video’s there so helpful you don’t play games and are straight to the point and explain things right THANK YOU FIR EVERYTHING

For the first time my mind doesnt go blank by looking at this stuff. You deserve a lot more subs.

You make this shit so simple. You are the real MVP. Upgrading my i5 to i9 today.

Thank you for this vid! You explained everything thoroughly and if I do decide to upgrade my i7, you’ll be the first vid I’ll go to! 👍

I value and respect your content. It was super informational and very helpful. I was so confused about motherboards and couldn't figure what's the difference among H-B-Q-Z Series. Sir! Thank you so much. #6%club all the way.

Doing my first build. Recently put my 4080 in my current pc, decided I'd do a completly new build. So i got a Z790 ROG Maximus Hero and i9 13900k, putting in a corsair 5000d airflow. Love watching videos like this lately. Looking forward to seeing the improvement from my b360m-a with i7 9700k.

First time watching and I'm already a member! 6%er's baby!

I learnt so much from this video, I genuinely don't think it could have been broken down and explained any better. #6%club. Thank you very much.

#6%club...thanks for a great video. Knew how to buy the CPU but was a bit leery about changing it out. You made it really easy and I am less nervous know. Shouldn't be nervous since I built my computer a while ago, but was-lol. The antistatic wrist wrap bit was hilarious, lol I think I still have mine somewhere with extra cables and fans in a box somewhere. Waiting for my graphics card to come in (old one just up and died, think a power surge got it) then will change the CPU and GTX out at the same time. Thanks again for a great video, nice and clear info is much appreciated.

This channel helps a lot of people and a lot of there thinking this channel must have a millions a subs rn

How is this not flooded with views. Super helpful

Haha I loved the stake in the ground for the wrist strap.

This was an immense help. everything was so clear and I learned so much. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

How did you manage to seem so confused but at the same time explain everything perfectly and know exactly what you’re talking about 😂 :’)

thank you i currently have to upgrade to an i7 with a rtx 2070 and this really made things easier to understand

Clearly explained and easily understood. Thanks for the tutorial.

Very well presented - I reckon you handled this complete fog of a topic very well! Thank you.

I was already dead about to build my own computer… then, by chance, got on this video. And Maraksot (who was born 1978) resuscitated a light of interest, and delight in back to do it. Thanks. #6%club.

I’m on an intel i7 47-something, so this tutorial was well needed!

This is such a helpful video. Much less confusing than anything else I’ve seen.

Loved the vid man, quick, concise, entertaining,, informative,.. Actually enjoyed the time refreshing my PC knowledge,.. Thanks much and keep it up!

I have a Dell G5. Thanks to your video I was able to determine the best CPU to buy for my specific motherboard. I currently have a i5-10400F and wanted to upgrade to some sort of i9. I used the command prompt as instructed, used the number to google it and I can only upgrade to 1 type of i9 which for someone like myself that isn't overly tech-savvy I am not overly picky as long as it gets the job done for a few years to come so It ended being a i9-10900KF. It's reasonably cheap at over $500 with taxes. Looks like I made my decision thanks again to your video

6:38 YIKES! Almost bought an i7 10700k. Thank you, kind Sir! I have like an old MSI motherboard for 4th gen intel processor.

Thank you sooo much. I went from clueless to almost understanding. Really informative and just really great. Thank you!

Super helpful! I have a 1150 motherboard and an i5-4960k cpu... and I do heavy rendering of visual effects, motion graphics, and unreal engine work. It's time for an upgrade. I still need to figure out if an i7 is enough or if I need an i9, though.

Easy to understand, I’m glad I have a z390, I’m upgrading my i5 9600k to a i9 9900k, I’m super excited.

3 years later thank you for being here for my next upgrade :)

Thanks for the help looking to upgrade the 10400f to the 117000f 6 cores just isn’t cutting it for my 3070ti😂

#6%Club great video, keep it up :)

This video right here ...is priceless!

thanks you saved me alot of money i was going to try upgrade my i7 7700k processor to a reyzon amd im glad i found this video

Man your videos are so informative love it you deserve more views and subs keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😀😀😀😀😀

Lovely, calm, clear instructions. Thanks! 👏

This may have been added to your comments already, but a great app you can use to ID your motherboard is CPU-Z, and it is free! I'm using an H170 series Core i5 6400T and want to upgrade to a Core i7. Still working out the kinks, but this video has helped me get closer! Thanks!

Thank you so much, I successfully installed a new cpu because of you!!

#6%Club Thank you for the tutorial, it helps me a lot. Keep up the good work.

#6%CLUB Thank you for this, I learned so much. I've been having issues deciding and figuring out how to upgrade my CPU.

27 years dealing with PC and yesterday I did my first CPU upgrade myself ^_^

learned new information about MB and the processors. Thanks

You helped me very much in CPU upgrading, thanks! I’m subbing then

I am actually going to buy one and i am doing my research :>

Hey! 6% Club woohoo! :D Trying to upgrade an old Foxcomm H61 mobo, so far so good with my laymans knowledge of PC inner dynamics, upgraded 8GB ram to 16GB (Max for the H61 Mobo) that was so simple I decided to upgrade the CPU from an i5 2320 to an i7 3770, that's where the fun ended, because I brought an i7 3770K. Wish i'd seen your vid before.

Thank you for this video! My 14 year old son was able to change out his i5 for an i7 for the first time. I supervised on a video call as he did the actual work.

#6% club all the way, great video thanks for the help

Can I just work on it while naked, would that help with static electricity

Glad I watched your video before I opened the packaging of the CPU I just bought . . . now I know that my motherboard ain't compatible

I learned more about motherboards and CPUs with your video than I have over the last 10 years of self-guided research. #6%Club

6% club :) quick question how do i know whether a new cpu will need a bios update Edit: I installed new cpu and on a updated bios, thank you for the video

#6%CLUB The most information I've been able to find so far. Great job with this video, thank you for taking the time to make and share it.

Learned more about cpus in this vid than i have from any other vid on the subject

thanks man it was exactly what i needed, i searched for the compatability of my motherboard found a cpu and everything, but was unsure about every information, you confermed all of them and encouraged me to go for the upgrade, can't guarantee i will not fuck this up but you put me on a good road to success.

#6%CLUB Thanks for making this video. Super informative and straightforward. Cheers for that! Got A quick question, I am upgrading my Z370 motherboard i5-8500k to A i9-9900k is there any software I need to update before doing the swap? Thanks again.

Excellent video. Looking to upgrade from my i5-7600K. Was curious to see that no 8th or 9th gen options were compatible (using the CPU-upgrade website), but your bit on motherboards explained that as I have a Z270-P so would have to upgrade to a "300" number for 8th/9th gen options. Now I'm wondering if I should go upgrade the motherboard as well as the processor or just go with a i7-7700 or i7-7700K processor upgrade. Any thoughts?

Here on the heels of installing new RAM from the other video, and grabbed an i7 on sale (currently using i5). Not quite brave enough to upgrade it yet (there's a few assignments I'd like to get out of the way first in case things go terribly wrong), but will be following this process when I do! Thanks for making the steps clear and easy to follow.

This was an amazing video. Thank you. Got a gen 2 intel over here holding on for dear life pushing it to the limit before I scrap the whole thing in 2023

I need help I have a cyber power gamer xtreme I’m upgrading to 16 gb of ram I have a as rock b360m xtreme with 9th gene my power supply is unknown but read it’s around 800 wat I’d like to upgrade to a i7 9th gen I need some help could you help me out maybe I hope you see this please respond

Thanks for making this! Was super helpful :) #6%club

#6% club! Thanks for all the guides. Easy to follow and very informative.

6% club. You are very good and very kind. Thanks for the information.❤

I'm using i3-4170 and I'm upgrading to i7-4770

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i dont comment much but you are a rare you tube find great job

Bros hand was shaking throughout the video Lmao

i know jack about computers. let alone building them. but after watching this, even i could do my upgrade (with a little running around the net for parts). very impressed. 👍

The last comment nailed it ... Dude! You seem so familiar ... Makes you a natural. Figure out your hands tho... Maybe wider view so your hand movements don't seem rehearsed. Otherwise (hard to get actual constructive criticism) your videos gave me what I needed, didn't lose topic and didn't seem to leave anything out. I kinda want to work for or with you I'm so impressed. Thankyou

Thank you. I wasn't sure what to do about the wrist strap thing since I don't have one. I'll use that technique you mentioned. Thanks a lot!

Thanks for this video because Im planning to upgrade my cpu and this will be my first experiece hopefully it will be good at all

wanted to thank you for the video cause I been looking to upgrade from a i5 to a i7 and now I have a better idea what to look for

#6percentclub here! Wanting to upgrade Intel Core i5-9400F to Intel Core i9-9900KF and seeing if I could swap it myself. Never done before so the info is very helpful!

Now I know how to upgrade the CPU of my first ever computer I am upgrading it to a core i7 3770K and I followed a separate tutorial on how to add dedicated Graphics to it like GTX 960 or GTX 1070

Massive help this! Saved me from making some crazy mistakes :D

Thank god i watched this, i almost made an expensive mistake...i wanted to upgrade to the i9 9900k for the Intel Z170...not realizing my motherboard chipset mattered, I only thought socket size mattered...thank you!

I am upgrading today (if it gets delivered) my i-3 7100 to an i7-7700 in my HP Pavilion 540 to allow me to do data analytics for my coursework. Thanks for the video to help me remember what I need to do.

I've always been an Intel guy but since amd mobos work with so many processors, i may go with them next time.

This video was very helpful - I was changing the same socket, actually from i3 7th gen to i7 7700T. Nothing has exploded yet so that's good. I would note that the cooling fan is not that easy to snap out, and also not easy to snap back in. Also yes #6%club

I use an I5-7600K on a MSI-Z170 GamePro MB with 32 gb DDR4 Ram & GTX Titan-Z GPU. Loaded for bear but I just surf KZfaq mostly & save Music MP4's. Good video brother, ty.

#6%Club great video and explanations about mother board compatibilities

So, this was quite a few years ago that I got an Omen pc. At the time we were going to build a pc from scratch, (my brother was, he knows more about this than I do but has since moved), and we had ordered all of the parts, only to find out that the order was canceled over the weekend because of a credit card error. So we set about re ordering everything only to find out that the graphics cards had gone up to $350, where as they had just been $150, I think. So we shopped around and got an Omen, as it was going to be cheaper than building at that point. Anyway, I'm very late to the game now, but seeing as the issues with computer chips, graphics cards are going to continue on for the foreseeable future, I thought I better figure out what my pc needs/and can use, get it and upgrade what I can now, to save some time/money down the road. I've mostly used it for things like GW2, lol, the Witcher 3 and so on, and haven't had any issues yet, but I figure it can't hurt to learn these things myself. Although I don't think I need to upgrade the cpu, I think I could upgrade the ram (it has 2 slots for it). omen desktop pc 870-2XX Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz 8 GB Ram 1Rx8 PC4-2666V-UA2-11 MTABATF1G64AZ-2G6H1

Thank you so much! I couldn't find a video that shows removal of a CPU cooling fan from a CPU, and I'd never even worked with thermal paste until I built my own PC a few months ago. I've decided that the cooling fan I have isn't enough for my future needs, but wasn't sure, "Er, how do I remove the cooling fan without damaging the CPU?" I went looking for a "upgrade CPU cooling fan" but the closest I found was an AMD based video. That one's probably good enough, but I figured, "I just want to learn to do this right, the first time." Anyway, thanks for showing me that the thermal paste doesn't act as some sort of weird superglue or whatever! I just really wasn't sure.

Extremely informative, gonna go have a look to see if you have a video on how to overclock now! :)

6% and a new sub! I just learnt a lot in 10 mins! Thanks

Great video! Have an intel i3 9100f and considering upgrading to the intel 5 9400f because the i3 is bottlenecking my gpu

This video is so detailed that a non techy person like me literally understood everything one should know when upgrading cpu

that motherboard chipset info is very helpful! i wouldve bought a unsupported CPU and wasted a lot of money

After removing power lead hold the power button in to remove any power, this is recommended for changing RAM

#6%club# loved the detailed explanation. You saved me ALOT of reading in understanding the meaning of those processor codes, thank you!! Keep up the good work!

I learn a lot from you thank you love the video

#6% - good video. I want to upgrade and will watch a few more times

#6%CLUB Very nice and easy to understand video! First video I found that explained what you need for specific CPU as I didnt understand what I was missing to upgrade my CPU

as far as ik im on a i3 and i do want to upgrade it because my pc isnt up to date so i need to know what to buy for it and this video helped me alot thank you

I've been upgrading my Aurora R8 I got in 2018 recently. I've upgraded the RAM to 32GB a couple months ago, and I'm planning to upgrade the stock i5 9600k to an i9 9900kf which, as far as I can tell, is the highest performing Intel CPU with the same socket type. I chose the kf variant since the integrated graphics of the k variant is superfluous when I have a GeForce RTX 2070, and its so much cheaper than the k variant. Thanks for the vid man, major component replacement really is plug and play with these modern desktops huh? Lol

Thank you so much for sharing such a wonderful and valuable video very informative and helpful

love the video dont know why i didnt find your channel first.....like how u explain stuff....

Awesome video mate! Keep it up!

Keep grinding YT ur a beast great tutorial