If your motherboard has a PGA socket (such as AM4), lower the arm down completely ... simple And that's how easy it is to install and secure an AMD CPU on a motherboard. I've shown the steps ...

How do you install a CPU? While your graphics card is ... particularly if it’s a Socket AM4 CPU, which can be pulled straight out of the socket with damage to the pins if you’re not careful.

Today, whether you're looking for the absolute fastest CPU, the CPU with the most cores ... AM5 marked the end of the celebrated AM4 platform, while becoming DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 only.