Asus Skylake Z170 CPU fitting tool!

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LOL so shiny

[andyn]

I can't see me using it and I don't really see the point. It's not difficult to install a CPU.

If one of these is a requirement, maybe you shouldn't be building PC's

I'm totally with you both on it being easy, but you would be shocked at how many of our returns are due to bent motherboard pins (or on the CPU if AMD).

The number of times we hear "It must have come like that from the factory, I can't possibly have damaged it as I am a computer expert with XX years of PC building experience"..

[TheMadDutchDude]

That's a real issue as that isn't covered under warranty. It really sucks. These 'tools' won't help the actual tools who are installing the CPU though.

[olivaughan]

It looks on the vid like the tool stays in place once the cpu is in the mobo, not watched with sound and only sped watched, but i'm guessing only certain sockets have the space to allow their use?

I've just watched it with sound and he is saying that it just fits under the retention arm and apparently fits any mobo, they designed it to not interfere with anything apparently?

Does worry me that something like this is neccesary, I mean i'm no pro at building rigs but its not hard to install a CPU

[PhillipM]

I'm totally with you both on it being easy, but you would be shocked at how many of our returns are due to bent motherboard pins (or on the CPU if AMD).

The number of times we hear "It must have come like that from the factory, I can't possibly have damaged it as I am a computer expert with XX years of PC building experience"..

They'll just drop it putting it in the plastic bracket instead

[coiler]

I've just watched it with sound and he is saying that it just fits under the retention arm and apparently fits any mobo, they designed it to not interfere with anything apparently?

Does worry me that something like this is neccesary, I mean i'm no pro at building rigs but its not hard to install a CPU

Wonder if has any impact on heat dissipation of CPU? I mean people delid and polish for a few degrees, would this extra plastic have any effect even if only a few *C?

[coiler]

Just seen an absolute massacre of a socket, like someone had took a pen and drawn a circle round the entire socket, trail of pin desecration.

[olivaughan]

Wonder if has any impact on heat dissipation of CPU? I mean people delid and polish for a few degrees, would this extra plastic have any effect even if only a few *C?

It would be pretty interesting to see if it has an effect but it looks like it just goes in the same place as the retention bracket would anyway, although I would have thought that would place slightly more pressure on the cpu? Has anybody actually how thin these are in person?