 I did a series of videos recently on installing CPUs and I covered AM2, AM3, 775, 1156 and I just realized I never did 1366 so I'm gonna walk you through the procedure to install a CPU in socket 1366. So this is Intel's x58 platform the board I'll be demoing today is the ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme. So the first thing you want to do you see it's got a protective cover over the pins here that's to keep the very fragile pins inside the socket from being damaged because the CPU itself only has pads you can actually touch the bottom of the CPU it's not the best thing to do but you could there I showed you I did it and and it won't be nearly as easy to damage as something like the CPU socket so my camera keeps focusing on that RAM so I'm gonna just sort of shift my angle here and see if I can get it to focus on the socket so the first thing you want to do is push down on this arm this lever here and then pull it away from the socket so here I'm gonna do a close-up there so you can see what I'm doing so I'm taking that arm and I'm pulling it out away from the socket and lifting it up just like that okay so that loosens this little piece right here which is what actually keeps the CPU or the holder firmly in place then you just press on this little spot right here and lift up the cover next what you're gonna want to do is you're gonna want to always something attach the cover when the CPU is not installed yeah that's to protect this socket so then you pick this up and let me see if I can find which one is the labeled one yeah this says remove so you hold it by these two pieces right here and then you lift up that side pull the whole thing out and that's where you see 1336 pins you touch those even with something as as delicate as like a fiber from your shirt you can easily bend a pin or even rip them they're very very fragile so the next thing you're gonna do is take your 1366 CPU which has two notches one here focus focus one here and one over here you'll line that up with the two notches in the socket which are here and here and then you put the CPU in be very careful to line up the corners and never do this while you're looking at the socket through a camera always be looking directly at the socket do as I say not as I do so I always give the CPU a bit of a wiggle just to make sure it's seated correctly because if it's in there crooked like if it's sitting like this and you go and and put the cover down on it and secure it you're just gonna bend the heck out of your socket so you just take that put it in there's no force involved you just kind of give it a bit of a wiggle there you go so then you pull down this cover you can see that the pressure that holds the CPU in is actually from these two spots right here so those two will press down on the heat spreader the CPU right in the middle then you'll take this arm and it this requires some force so you push it down that was bad make sure that's still in there okay yep pull it down put it under the hook there you go you have installed the CPU in your 1366 motherboard you are a computer technician thank you for watching my vlog don't forget to subscribe lots more updates and unboxings to come