Changing Your Computer's Processor (CPU) - Step by Step

Hello, I wanted to make a slightly different video and show you the steps I took to change the processor, in this case the twelfth generation Intel i5 that you are seeing here, here I placed the processor, I can't put it in the box, so I left it half loose, I'm going carefully and this other one that I already changed, obviously, which is the one you are seeing here on the machine, which is the i7 that we have here, I think you can see it. In this case, it is the last one that I allowed myself. The motherboard, remember that we are working with the LGA1700 socket, so here are several important things.

Obviously I am taking the one from Intel and the one from the twelfth generation, since to date they changed the name, right now I don't remember what they called it, I think it is simply Core, but they changed the socket, which is 1700 and something or 1800 and something. That is the first thing you have to keep in mind, then.

Why do I do this?

We're going to talk a little bit about that. I'm making this video a little bit because I see that on YouTube, even though it is, there isn't that much information about this. Mind you, it's something simple, even though it is, it doesn't go beyond a simple assembly, but in this case, what applies is the disassembly, which would be the only different thing.

But usually in 90, 99 or 99.9 of what it is, it is to say what you use to assemble it, as the procedure says, you have to do the same to disassemble it. There is not much mystery in that, that is, the reverse steps. You could say, eh, I'm a little scared of this, there I confess. I really don't have that much experience in this. I'm more into the development part, which is the part that I liked the most. When I was in college, which was mostly when I started with the laptop and everything else, that is, programming. And that, or rather, when I started in college, I used an alacto, so well, so there was nothing to change because that comes soldered and you you stay with that and I started to use it was a PC starting with the desktop PC I mean xps 8900 if I remember correctly exactly this machine that was here was already soft pressed I brought it from outside I brought it and little else the only thing I did here was change the video card which is not something it is not something difficult I simply removed the previous one it was a small lever that I had to give there and I had placed it was the 1070 And from there I think that after that I changed machines it would be this little devil that we have that I have here that I am trying to sell I have not been able to unfortunately it is the to see xps 8940 I tell you a little about this because to get to the point of when I started to assemble them that precisely the one we have here at the beginning worked was with that with assembled machines I had a good price everything was already ready and here I bring it like this the devil well there is not a photo that rocks the page but it was what you could see here on the screen a machine like this the problem was already here I did not master this much but it is a mini Tower micro Tower A thing like that is the small one, so there was only room for a two-fan graphics card, since I like to play an occasional game from time to time, like half an hour a day, when I can and I couldn't play, so I had to work with both fans. Well, to make a long story short, the machine had some problem, remember that I am where I am, so

Buy armed or arm

Quite a dilemma and when it doesn't come with a machine and it is precisely to avoid that human error because in another country in any country I almost kill to say of the earth except for three or four countries in which I include myself also there and if you have some problem in some way you can use the guarantee but here that was a dilemma another day I will tell that story But at the moment I had a problem with the machine and I couldn't.

From the moment I said no I didn't like the internal components very much it was when I started to open it even comparing it with the 8900 which was an older machine obviously but I don't know if it's because everything is smaller than hell but I didn't like the quality of the components everything looked a little fragile too then something failed the graphic card blew up or the graphic card blew up or the motherboard blew up then tell that story but there something happened there

Since my previous pre-assembled machine failed, I decided to build my own.

And from there I said no, I can't go on with this and also there I saw the problem of this precisely that I am losing what is the main advantage that these teams have over all this that always has, as they say, custom components that are precisely from them and are not generic in what refers to the scope of assembling a team and therefore from that I said no, I better assemble them.

My first PC

So it was in which I built my first machine which is precisely the one I am using that had this configuration which is the one you can see here in this case you can see Well from here you can see a little bit of everything I started with this machine precisely with what refers to the graphics card which is exactly the one I have now that I am remembering the 3700 ti from ASUS the tuf the tuf range well you can look for that one there it is not the case right now but I started with this configuration precisely this convo that I found here that obviously I do not recommend it to you anymore because you can buy something more updated but that was what there was the date already has as you can see from 2022 almost 3 years have passed so here you can see is the lga finally arrived

Compatible socket

Here to the part of what matters to us that is what I am changing here that is the next thing that I will show you in the a little further on This is the motherboard the modb here we have what is again an lga 1700 This is the first thing you have to take into account in this case it is an Intel machine for amd it is more or less the same right now I do not really remember I did not use md but for this type of equipment that is why I am showing you this but this is the first thing you have to see to see what type of socket you can use for your equipment in this case I have to stay with the 1700 which are the levels of transistors if I remember correctly I do not say the levels of the amount of connector plugs that it has that is another mess you can look for it there But obviously it is something physical it has 1700 connectors therefore that is the amount that you have to work with you cannot put a chic either it has less that does not make sense or it has more that in this case it would be the range of Core Coro I think it is Core 7 I do not remember how it is I called it because they changed the name. Oh, it's not Ultra, the term they used, now they removed the Intel and everything else Intel Core and now the term they use is

The socket is crucial

The Intel Core Ultra and here you can see that the LGA which is the other time the number of transistors or connectors is 1851 therefore it is different from 1700 obviously they are different sizes they are different quantities and therefore a chit from here will never fit in a motherboard from the one I am showing you here in the one I was showing you here So that is the first thing you have to see In the same way here what you can do is simply Search by model the next thing you should do and see what the official page tells you here in this case here right away in the description you can see that you work with generation 12 13 I remember that when I bought this plate they had said that the 13 was going to be the same so it was going to be compatible but it didn't make much sense to me to jump from C to 13 really from 12 to 14 there is not much difference in this case it is because I changed from i5 and 7 so s It would feel a little more in that sense But not as much as who says from i5 and C there is not so much difference since they always have equivalents but in this case you change the one named that is to say here is the Intel 12 to see where the processor is Here is good This is another but it does not matter they are always like this 12 500 and then AC and when it changes range that is to say for example the 13 would be 13 500 700 whatever and it is always like this in my case it is the 600 so there is one 13 600 and there is also one 14 600 and the 14 or the 13 or the 12 indicates the generation so from there then compare it with the one you have if you want to buy exactly the same but from a different generation then going back here to the mess with the with the with the motherboard that is the first thing you have to see what is the chicks set And from there you already know more or less at least theoretically which ones you can place That is to say physically all the ones that are 1700 in my case are the ones that I could place and from there you have to go even if it is the official documentation, that is to say, look for your card here on the internet, just as I did, and here it will tell you without entering here, to the link, you can see that there it gives me the information, which is also here

Update Bios

The dilemma with this is that you will surely have to update the bios, which usually does not cause much of a problem, but I already told you what is my case if it gives me any little problem. Well I screwed myself because I do not have anyone to ask or how to validate the guarantee or it is a pain to spend more on sending the card than what they are going to replace me if anything and the next thing is that Well here the power outages that go on if it is installing Imagine your tremendous scare but but here you can also see in this case I would put bios as the term bios and here you can see the bios that you have for this card Remember that the vios is nothing more than an operating system a little primitive a little basic for what the motherboard is And in this case it is the one that first starts all the components that are connected to it and a little its name So here you have to look for the bios for your card

This generation had some problems that was the one that consumed a little more energy and broke down in theory that was already fixed I had already read it later for the motherboard I had but this is the next thing you have to take into account I saw that you have to Download obviously it has to be compatible with the chip you want to buy So there are like three things the first is the chipet as I was telling you that is to say the socket that is of the same range that is physically the same the next thing is to look here for information about your motherboard to know if well it is compatible if the manufacturer made it compatible because it may not be compatible for some other physical reason Then it is not directly compatible Although if it fits the socket in my case you already saw that yes I showed it to you in the description and the next thing is very possibly you have to download the bios Now those steps I leave it to you on YouTube there is a lot of information on How to update the bios simply enter your model and well pray to the gods that some video appears of something that helps you a little in my case it was very simple I simply downloaded it, unzipped it onto a pendrive, left it connected to the motherboard, restarted it pressed f2 I think that was the question here for this model to enter the bios and I went to advanced settings and found the part where I would update the USB and there it updated by itself and pray the gods that there is no downtime because it took longer than I expected then Well that was basically all then there it told you What it is somewhere it tells you What is the bios you are using And if it really was updated apart from it telling you the information message that it was updated and the machine did not explode then that is the next thing you have to take into account when updating your bios your motherboard and if you already have all this clear and

Antistatic bracelet

From there if you could as I say buy your next processed in little things that you have to take into account I also really recommend if not there you can look for more information on the internet one of these little things that is being is a bracelet like this it is an antistatic bracelet you have to connect it to a metal surface eh Well here I don't have one because it is being assembled somewhere else and I can't move the camera either but with this hook I hook it to a metal surface this is precisely to avoid the static that your body has and you can damage the equipment when you are manipulating with it usually this I really don't think you need it much and if you don't have it it doesn't matter either I say it because it is also cheap it cost me $ so and with that I support a little the possibilities the remote possibilities that you can mop the equipment precisely for that reason but you can also buy anything that you don't have or don't want to simply place your hands on a metal surface for example the same Case that I showed you here you can place it wait there with like 20 seconds 15 seconds and go without without problems that is precisely when you are going to work with the equipment eh And from there a little bit of the traditional and now I'm going to show you a little bit of the steps. I apologize a little bit sometimes for the quality. I'm new at doing this. I don't really make videos on this subject. I'm more into the programming part but sometimes it provokes me, especially when I do things like this and I do a kind of Pythagoras for myself. So obviously you have to download

Disconnect the equipment

You have to disconnect the equipment, remove all the cables for God's sake, leave it without anything, especially the power cable. I would also recommend that you leave the Power button pressed once completely disconnected for a few seconds, for 5 or 10 seconds for anything that still has power internally, the equipment will finish discharging and from there you can open the lid and that varies on what the hell you have. In my case, it is a tempered glass case that has our little kids next to it and well, that would basically be the whole context of the whole situation. And from here on, I'm going to talk about, well, the steps you have to follow to change the processor, which again, although you won't find much information here.

On YouTube, since there really isn't much, it's basically the same steps you take to assemble it, there are many videos about it, but in this case you have to apply it as well.

Apart from the steps to assemble it, also do the opposite, that is, when you also see that you have to place the processor before placing it, obviously you have to remove it. And so also for what is the fan cooler, which by the way I am using, I wouldn't recommend it to you either. Or Maybe yes, I don't know if there is another more modern one, but it doesn't matter either, and there's little else to say here. If I have what cost me the most, it really wasn't like I told you, I'm not good at this.

I'm a little clumsy with the physical parts, especially these little things, but the part that cost me the most was putting this fan back in there, but for the rest everything was simple, so nothing more to say, now without further delay, I hope you enjoy these steps and if you have any questions, you can leave them in the comments, so let's start, now yes, the video begins, as they say, the little tutorial, the little tips that I want to leave you in case you are a little confused here with that, I think they are really nonsense, but I think they are important, even if you have to know them, because with the slightest mistake you can ruin your computer, or at least leave a huge problem there. So I think it is important to do all this very thoroughly, very thoroughly, apart from the fact that this way you save yourself any problems, in a few words, so let's go there, I also recommend this to you, in case you are also doubting. Have a long time, do not assemble it, do not disassemble it or whatever.

Step 1: Take a photo and video of the process

Take a video, better a video with an image but I think that is also important since for example it helped me a lot because one of the things that I always forget is the blessed direction of the fan because it is a normal fan that you have around there in one part it grabs the air and in another part it eh well it grabs it and in another it expels it so I didn't remember which one was the correct one and precisely because of this video I remembered that the one with the logo has to go on the inside usually of the heatsink since this is the Cooler of the processor heatsink

Step 2: Disconnect CPU cooler cables and screws

so what is the first thing that I did here look for the screws apart from that or before that disconnect this since anything that you want to manipulate and have the little cables the ideal is to disconnect them So in this case it is the heatsink of the processor which is exactly this one that you are seeing on the screen that was the torture that put me there to place the fan with the metal heatsink you have to disconnect in my case there are two cables because it has rgb then one is here on this side where I am placing the cursor and the other over here because to access the screws as such I have to remove at least the fan if in your case you can see the four screws without having to remove the fan Perfect then remove them in my case I can only see the ones in the back as you can see here I can only access these therefore it is not enough So I have to remove the fan that in my case there are two modules what is the heatsink as such which is a piece of metal and what is the fan may also come fused already That depends on the version so here important is as I told you first remove the connectors And from there remove the connectors of current and rgb if you have it

And from there remove the screws if you can't access the screws you have to remove whatever you have before accessing the screws the four screws that go into the processor eh let's go with the next one here it was good and here is the fan and you can see it's not that dirty really And that I have like 3 years that I don't open it because well I don't clean it and that's because I always sometimes open it and take it out a little, turn off the power, dry it a little, clean the fans and it wasn't that dirty but well here I can now access the screws so now I can remove it eh just like that you can see the next video

Step 3: Clean thermal paste from the heatsink and processor OUTSIDE the PC

This is the paste that I had left there from the heatsink, obviously we have to clean it here, what is chtp recommended, well you can look here, right now I don't remember chtp, I'm going to put it here quickly, well, to see, eh, clean thermal paste, eh, well, I wrote it wrong, I hope you understood me, so you can see

Cleaning thermal paste on PC processor is an alcohol with 90% purity isopropyl, which is what they recommend.

I cleaned it with a 70% because well I didn't find it, I don't know where the hell it can be found, but well I suppose a computer store sells it, but in my country that doesn't exist. So I had to use a 70% purity one, here you can see and it worked well for me, so here I think the tip also comes: everything you can clean on the outside, clean it on the outside even before doing this because I also like to, as they say, recap a little.

Again, DO NOT clean the processor inside

I started watching some videos about what I found out there and one comes and says that in Chambo the cloth that is not exactly this one and the processor fell on it fell on the motherboard and damaged it, so well these are things that one wants to avoid, so for example this obviously you have to clean it from the outside

This is the heatsink underneath the metal thing that had dust that I showed you before and we have to clean that from the outside, a cloth that you can use anything that is not good that you want that you are not going to use obviously because from there you have to throw it away because it sticks there very complicated to remove it so that it does not throw lint or anything like that

Do not use toilet paper either, nor is it recommended sanitary or cleaning wipes because it has a lot of chemicals and can damage something there, a completely clean cloth that does not throw lint and that you do not care that you do not care to remove it or throw it away, so here I have the heatsink and here I have the processor, my important recommendation do not clean the processor there directly for what was said before, it is not worth the risk unless you are very eh very thorough but I I think if you were thorough you wouldn't be watching this video then clean it outside So what did I do here right now I'm realizing that I didn't record the video to give you the tips which is also important to clean the processed So let's go this important as I indicated before the ideal is that when you just take it out you put it in its box and place it 3 meters away from you so that you don't trip over it or anything like that and you take care of it later then here

LAST Step: Clean processor OUTSIDE the PC

What are the recommendations that I can give you and that you clean it afterwards at the end of everything don't worry it can be a day later even it won't be damaged it won't dry out I mean the thermal paste is made for that so it doesn't dry out Unless it happened 5 years ago and you don't do anything you don't know how to play it either I for example cleaned it a day later because it's already busted something else then titic here I already have my processor that I already cleaned the replacement or the one that I replaced better said have a soft cloth underneath obviously you have to remove it from the box I'm not going to remove it because it's not necessary have a soft cloth clean underneath and when you're going to clean it you grab it by the ends these two that we have here very careful not to touch the circuitry I mean what we have here below so that you don't grease it with your body fat obviously clean hands throughout the process both for the computer and everything else that I think not well it's pretty obvious and for here more than more dry hands hands without grease or anything like that or creams nothing or nothing then from here you grab it by the ends What is the version that you have to use more or less the same as the joke that I told you about with the needle and the slightly damp cloth just as I showed you when you are cleaning the processor and from there you start to clean it little by little again you can have here and your hand near the cloth in case different forces are applied, that is to say, it goes down, apply more pressure force with the cloth than you are holding it, if it goes down then it won't get damaged or fall to the floor, so that's why I have it here near the table and you clean it little by little, it's important that they don't get wet, I recommend that you use thin cloths that are not thick so that they don't get wet, you don't have the problem of it getting wet And if anything gets wet on the back then there I think you have to look on the internet I don't remember right now what you have to clean but it's another process You don't have to worry so much either but I think that you do have to clean it with some special chemical to remove the alcohol residue especially when it is not 90 percent which is my case in my case it did not happen so I did not have any problem with that but you go cleaning little by little until obviously you see the metal and it is completely clean again in summary a rag below grab it by the ends pressure more or less like what I was telling you about the needle both hands here on these tabs without touching the circuitry down here and with the completely clean hand a rag with alcohol and you start to clean here right here down very close to the rag you do not need to place it on top of the rag so that you do not dirty it either but close in case you fall you know It slips So do not let it fall to the floor it is better that at least it has contact with the rag that I have a contact with the floor and that is all I simply removed it there I grabbed the box I keep the boxes of everything so here Well I did not show but you have to give the little lever you lift it and keep it there So at this point grab it and put it like 5 cm from you very carefully place it about 5 cm from you because the idea is that in some movement the floor does not slip and so much nonsense you damage the processor and then you lose money, for example I am going to sell it

Step 4: See the Arrow and place the new processor

So there the recommended thing is that since it comes in its case you keep it in that case and put it away and continue with the computer and the next step here I did not show anything This is the new one This is the one that I was going to change look it is the same case so simply here you have to place it important you have to see the direction the arrow here for example here you can see it in my case There goes the direction of the arrow and there you can see it clearly And then here in the processor you can also see the arrow there you can see it so that is where you have to place it because if you place it wrong and scratch it well there the poor processor was left very important that again the arrow and again here we run into the problem of pouring alcohol there directly into the machine So we place it again very important the arrow here you can see my arrow and very carefully

Step 5: The Needle, check if the processor is well positioned

Just as you are seeing there, what pressure do I recommend you use? Grab a needle, prick your finger, obviously you know, you start to press it very lightly until it starts to hurt or before it starts to hurt, long before it starts to hurt, and that is the pressure that

I recommend you again grab a needle and touch the tip obviously the part that would hurt you and with that pressure that you do or apply on the needle What you do that does not cause you damage is what I use that force is what I use to see if the processor is in its position is what is recommended no more than that with that is more than enough then that is to see if it is well placed there it tends to move a little I would say with a matter of a millimeter something like that and that indicates that it is well if you see there that it is wobbling it moves obviously you did not place it well but I really do not see because it is flat almost everything that you can place it wrong

Again here you have the position there it has to be exactly where the little bit of connectors were And that is the pressure that I caught

Step 6: Clean the heatsink and LET it dry for a few minutes...

Those are the rags that I recommend you Note that it does not shed any fibers or anything, they are Simply I cut it before using it, I washed it, let it dry there and here I start to apply in this case you apply a little isopropyl alcohol or whatever it is called I also recommend these rags that do not get wet therefore when you press it you are not going to start throwing things anywhere I think they are the ideal thin rags others could be these that I have here that I am and are made of microfiber although it is already more than worn but I did not want to throw them away and there I start to clean obviously you have to grab the heatsink and clean it well on the heatsink you can go a little more roughly because a stone of iron there you will not have problems unless it is Hulk to break it in the processor if you have to be more delicate

Step 7: Apply the Thermal Paste

So here apply the thermal paste Now this is what was mine look for yourself on the internet get inspired What is the dilemma obviously here they put remembering a little you put your thermal paste that here looks horrible is not that ugly But I think it is because of the darkness here the size of a pea more or less like a corn you know the grain of a corn is more or less what you have to place There do not put more because if you do not know how to spread on the sides and it is not the idea you could see how I took out the other one that was more or less covered well like this is obviously it is a circle Well an attempt at a circle and if you flatten it obviously it will be like who says it will end up something like the cover therefore it would not cover well at the ends what I did was that was my idea do not pay much attention to me but I am explaining to you a little why And that is why I placed it a little more here at the ends as the processor is a rectangle in a square as is usually the case with amd Then what I placed a little more on the ends so that well it finished covering a little correctly but you had the other one that I applied to this one and it was well covered and that's what I did here once everything was placed you close the cover please here you can see this little lever that you have to operate it is one side a little hard and also when you are lowering I know that you have to give it a little force don't worry if you placed it well and the processor is in its place it will be fine but what you can see here is that the paste is applied Look how it turned out there Well there it was a little dirty on top but well it's not that bad the mess I have here on the desk

Step 8 Put everything back together, heatsink, fan and cables

And from there I placed the heatsink again I already cleaned it and you can see that I cleaned it a little with the same fiber cloth that I had there because I have a vacuum cleaner there but I didn't vacuum it well it was very clean really and again here you have to connect it here I am pointing out that they were the two that I had not shown you at the beginning This was the rgb initially you had only taken out the rgb and the other was over here the one that gives it power that is why I tell you that I recommend that you take a video before doing all this because this way you know exactly where you can have to connect it also check the Pins very well since usually the rgb only has three Pins so there you can see which one it is for example in my case I have like three more next to it here you can see that they are other connectors right now I don't remember which one it is but with the Pins and the and there you don't have any loss Then you place it in the same direction be very careful because you have to give it a little force But very little force I would say the same what did you do to check the processor if anything a little more but be very careful because you can break one of those Pins that are very delicate at most it is the reverse process you simply place the heatsink again in my case I don't know if no no I couldn't place the fan before because if not I can screw it in So I placed the heatsink first and then it was the birthing board with the blessed fan and place it with the hooks on the side and now the last video in which I am showing that I plugged everything in and there I think it is I don't think I haven't connected it well I didn't show the video because I couldn't with one hand but then I placed the fan without much problem and well in quotes I connected it again and pray the gods that I haven't ruined anything interesting things that happened to me obviously remember that I updated the Bios

Turn on the PC and Pray to the Gods

Everything else I mentioned that to you at the beginning but just when I started it, sorry I don't have the image here on the computer I forgot but just when I started it that I didn't expect it really I don't remember having seen the videos it gave me the following alert I think I'll see if it can be seen well if not well right now I'll put it there as part of the video right now when I finish but it's telling me that the motherboard detected a new cpu there I also saw the version So I already saw that at least physically I installed it well so I didn't break anything and that I made changes to the avios which even at this point in life I don't understand why it told me that Because I didn't make any changes, that is to say obviously change the processor but I wouldn't have to make any changes to the vios I understand and well simply what I did was hit f1 which was the option that it gave me there between the vios simply then I hit exit I think it was f11 I don't know what appears there I hit save although I didn't do anything it restarted and there it started without problems

Final words

that was all from there I have not uninstalled any drivers I think I have not found really I do not remember if it had to be done I think not but well in the same way right now it is not so relevant because I am going to format it a little later So from there once I take advantage and that would be all Now the next step that I am going to do here to boost my computer a little bit since we are talking about each other is to change the Source This is the one that I am using you have it also marked Well a capture this is because later I also plan to buy one of the new rtx that came out on the market I have the 3060 and I want well 3070 ti sorry and I want to change it for one of the 50 range I think in the same 3070 ti I mean to see 5070 ti it would be I think it will also come out in February it has not come out And that is what because I am doing a little bit of all this I already took advantage I changed the processor to have a little more modern one and this source the one I looked for was precisely that had the atx 3.1 now I can look for more information about that since right now there is not much The case in the same way I am going to put together or create another video later to explain a little bit this that is compatible with the new Sources Because the one I currently have does not have the 12 V connector I think it is called that it has the Nvidia graphics and therefore I would have to expand an adapter And well surely you already know the big problem that occurred with the 40 range of Nvidia about the connector bursting Although that was mostly with the 4090 and 4080 range But well as much as I am stepping on the heels there And I prefer to change the source than risk that a problem may happen to me since if the connector gives problems if I have to use an adapter to go from the 8 Pins to the 12 plus the 12 connector Well I'm already there trying a lot so well nothing I hope this has been useful to you and without further ado anything you can comment or leave it in the comments block and without further ado see you in another video