Motherboard and CPU

The next stage was to install the CPU onto the motherboard, the LGA 1150 socket is very different than the sockets I am used to (considering the last true PC I built was back in 2002) and they have reversed things since the P4 days, the pins are now in the socket, and the CPU has copper pads that connect. The LGA 1150 also known as Socket H3, is a microprocessor socket used by Intel's central processing units built on the Haswell microarchitecture.

I see numerous motherboards on sale that have bent pins, so installing the CPU was a bit of a concern, but I reflected that it always has been, especially in the days of the Intel 486 when the CPU alone would cost four ot five hundred dollars and breaking off just one of the tiny pins meant that it was destroyed.

The i5-4570 safe in the socket and the motherboard installed in the case.

The next step was to add a little thermal paste on the top of the CPU and then install the heatsink and fan, one of the other original items from the T1700 computer.

The rear case (chassis) fan and the CPU fan are connected to the motherboard. In addition, on the right hand side the cable with the shrink fit tubing is a special 24 pin to 8 pin power connector, another proprietary feature of the Dell T1700 motherboard,