Hi all, I'm a newcomer to your forum. Thanx for being here!
My son and I are building up a gaming system. The motherboard has an FGA1200 socket and the processor is an Intel i9-10900K, 3.7GHz and all the rest.
We laid the CPU in the socket. Then closed the socket-frame over it, the front edge of the frame slid under the screw closest to us, and we began to push the lever down. Pushed harder and harder until I started to get nervous over the amount of pressure we were using. Never got closer than 1/2" from the lever head to the circuit board, then chickened out and let it up.
How much pressure should we be using? I don't want to bend something expensive and hard-to-find (the i9-10900K was both). Also don't want to bend anything on the socket itself.
We've looked at several Youtube videos on building up a gaming system, especially concentrating on the part where the guy lays the CPU in the socket and flips the lever. In most, it seems trivial: He just moves the lever down to the flat position, doesn't seem to be using much pressure, and it's done.
Am I doing something wrong? Or should I just take a deep breath, use both feet on the lever (exaggerating) and let what happens happen?
My son and I are building up a gaming system. The motherboard has an FGA1200 socket and the processor is an Intel i9-10900K, 3.7GHz and all the rest.
We laid the CPU in the socket. Then closed the socket-frame over it, the front edge of the frame slid under the screw closest to us, and we began to push the lever down. Pushed harder and harder until I started to get nervous over the amount of pressure we were using. Never got closer than 1/2" from the lever head to the circuit board, then chickened out and let it up.
How much pressure should we be using? I don't want to bend something expensive and hard-to-find (the i9-10900K was both). Also don't want to bend anything on the socket itself.
We've looked at several Youtube videos on building up a gaming system, especially concentrating on the part where the guy lays the CPU in the socket and flips the lever. In most, it seems trivial: He just moves the lever down to the flat position, doesn't seem to be using much pressure, and it's done.
Am I doing something wrong? Or should I just take a deep breath, use both feet on the lever (exaggerating) and let what happens happen?