 So I had someone send me a message on my my YouTube messages today And they asked me how to install an LGA 1156 CPU so that kind of inspired me to do a series of CPU Installation tips so I've got an Intel confidential CPU. I can't tell you what that is But the first one I'm going to be doing is how to install a CPU in an LGA 1156 motherboard so step one would be find a CPU Okay, so as long as you've completed that the actual first step would be to take the lever here And then you push down a little bit pull it out to the side and then lift it up Actually, you don't need to lift much because it's it's kind of spring-loaded here so you can see the pressure that the arm is putting down over here and that actually forces the Socket to slide under this bolt Okay, so that's what is giving the pressure to hold your CPU in so you pull it out lift up the arm That's going to cause this sort of yep there we go lift up so once that protective cover is removed You should remove any cats from the vicinity because cats will cause all kinds of problems during CPU installation Step two would be to see that little place where it says remove remove that so you hold your thumb under there Lift it up. Okay, so you're removing the protective cover from the LGA 1156 socket this is the part where it could get hairy if you have a cat so there's 1156 pins in there all of which need to make perfect contact with the 1156 pins on the bottom of your CPU now you see these two notches up at the top here Right there and then at the bottom right here those two notches need to line up with the notches in the socket which are here and Here okay, so I got to line up my CPU which means it's gonna go in some kind of different orientation Hold on put it this way This is harder than it looks folks. I'm looking through the camera installing a CPU So you get it lined up just right so you can see my notches are where they belong Drop it into the socket being very careful. I like to give it a little bit of a wiggle just to make sure it's in the right spot then you take the Cover here you put it right where it goes sort of so that it can slide down here So you just it's gonna be loose. That's normal. Okay, so then you take the lever Pull it all the way down. There's gonna be you're applying some pressure here Like that actually is putting a fair amount of force back on my finger So once you do that You can see that the CPU is actually held in by these two tabs right here more than anything else So those line up with a little metal tab on the heat spreader And that's what gives your CPU the force downward that it needs to ensure it makes good contact with the pads in the socket so thank you for checking out my installation tip for LGA 1156 more to come