C.R.G. Tutorials

Fig. A First of all, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page. You should also know this tutorial is intended for the more popular air coolers that normally contain a fan and a radiator, like shown in the image on the right. Now, with that out of the way, I'd like to explain a few things about the LGA775 motherboard and compliant processors. Unlike older socket types ( Socket 478 for example ), the LGA 775 motherboard introduced protruding pins instead of the multiple socket holes found in the past ( see fig. 1 ). There are 775 pins, hence the name. As expected, the compatible processors don’t have multiple pins on them like older processors, instead having just connectors arranged in the same pattern as the pins on the motherboard ( fig. 2 ). Fig. 2   Fig. 1 What will we need for this task? I hear you ask.. A LGA775 compatible processor ( mine is a 2.9GHz x86 Intel Pentium Dual-Core ); Thermal paste ( I've used MX4 thermal compound - the manufacturing