CPU Install,How Hard?

[Phantom88]

Hello,I have a Intel Quad 9650 that's served me well for over 4+yrs,I came across an Intel i7 3770K Ivy Bridge 3.9GHz Turbo on sale that I'd like to install in my existing PC.My question are...

-How hard is CPU install?

 

-What info do I need about my PC before I Buy The CPU to insure it will fit existing equipment.

 

Any help would be great,Thank You.

[cichlidfan]

Hello,I have a Intel Quad 9650 that's served me well for over 4+yrs,I came across an Intel i7 3770K Ivy Bridge 3.9GHz Turbo on sale that I'd like to install in my existing PC.My question are...

-How hard is CPU install?

 

-What info do I need about my PC before I Buy The CPU to insure it will fit existing equipment.

 

Any help would be great,Thank You.

 

You will need a new mother board and memory to use that chip.

 

EDIT: FYI, if the chip were compatible with your motherboard, it is quite simple to do an install.

 

EDIT2: The compatibility info you need the most is the socket type. Your current mobo is a socket 775 while the chip requires a socket 1366. Just for info, here is a chart of all the various sockets and chips that go with them.

 

http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/index.html

Edited October 6, 2012 by cichlidfan

[Phantom88]

Glad I asked before I bought,Really Appreciate your help.

Thanks very much:thumbup:

[Griffin]

It's not really hard to install but you should check some instructions for sure.

 

I assume you have a stock CPU cooler and the plastic twist pins the Intel CPU's have for securing are a total bitch! They might give you hard time, maybe not for everybody though.

If you plan to get a better cooler with a backplate to secure it from the back of the motherboard, installation should be much easier with screws providing your PC case has a hole to see the back of the motherboard's CPU socket. Without the hole you will have to remove the motherboard alltogether.

But since you have to get a new motherboard anyway, you can do it out of case which makes it really easy.

 

However there is such thing as static electricity and you should be cautious when touching the tiny electronics. When you feel a snap of static electricity when you touch something, that means thousands of volts have made that snap happen! Electronics use only a few volts for operation so that tiny snap will break something for sure.

When you want to handle open electronic components, first touch some large metal part such as cooler ribs to even out the static potential difference. It's not too easy to break something like that but it might happen and it's easy enough to prevent.

 

Lastly check this guide for applying thermal paste:

 

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Itemid=1

 

I don't remember if that guide tells you so I'll say here that first of all clean the cooler and CPU surfaces with something like isoprophyl alcohol and don't touch the surfaces with your fingers after that. If you get something like Arctic Silver then check their website for further instructions.

 

Even though here's alot of text and it might seem very new and complex, really the installation doesn't take more than 10 minutes after you do it once. I really encourage you to do it yourself. You will learn things and it's fun! You don't even have to be too tech savvy if you read the instructions first. Good luck with the plastic pins though.

[f-18hornet]

You will need a new mother board and memory to use that chip.

 

EDIT: FYI, if the chip were compatible with your motherboard, it is quite simple to do an install.

 

EDIT2: The compatibility info you need the most is the socket type. Your current mobo is a socket 775 while the chip requires a socket 1366. Just for info, here is a chart of all the various sockets and chips that go with them.

 

http://www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/index.html

 

Intel Core i7 3770K requires a socket 1155 not a 1366.

[EtherealN]

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It's for an AMD CPU, but most of it is the same with Intel.

 

Here's similar for intel:

 

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(The part about cats are important!)

[cichlidfan]

Intel Core i7 3770K requires a socket 1155 not a 1366.

 

My mistake. :doh:

[Phantom88]

Thank you all for your great input,Cheers!!:thumbup:

[Conure]

Wow - CPU's are coming stock clocked to 3.9ghz nowadays? I'm really out of the loop!

[cichlidfan]

I'm really out of the loop!

 

That happens so fast these days. Don't blink. ;)

[Rhinox]

Wow - CPU's are coming stock clocked to 3.9ghz nowadays? I'm really out of the loop!

Really "big" progress in frequency. Especially compared to P4 (Prescott?) which was stock-clocked up to 3.8GHz... in 2004!

:)

[EtherealN]

Yeah... need to be really careful with overestimating the performance implications of clock frequencies.

[Pyroflash]

Especially considering a I7-3820 has what, ten+ times the processing power of a P4?

[Loki_]

Really "big" progress in frequency. Especially compared to P4 (Prescott?) which was stock-clocked up to 3.8GHz... in 2004!

:)

 

Dont forget that each generation of processors has made very significant progress in the clock per clock processing power as well. 4ghz on an ivy bridge is roughly equal to 5 or 6ghz on many of the older pentium generations.

[Pyroflash]

Dont forget that each generation of processors has made very significant progress in the clock per clock processing power as well. 4ghz on an ivy bridge is roughly equal to 5 or 6ghz on many of the older pentium generations.

 

Uhh, no, on a linear scale (which clock is not), a P4 would have to be ~40 ish GHz to be comparable with a modern Ivy. Of course, your proc would explode well before then, but whatever. On the scale that clock actually comes close to, you would have to clock in at well above 100 GHz. Now that is some overclocking!