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Installing 5820K help!

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Eek! Just fitting my 5820k into my motherboard. I'm pretty sure I have it in the right way - eg. lining up the little triangle top right. And the tiny hole at bottom right - but when I got to clamp it in there seems quite a lot of pressure on the first clamping pin. At an angle of 45 degrees from the board there's already quite a bit of resistance, and gently pressing further I can hear a very light.. sound - I don't want to say crunching as that sounds too dramatic - but kind of!
Is this normal? Is it normal that there'll already be quite a bit of resistance when the clamping pin gets to 45 degrees??
This is always my least favourite part of a build and I don't want to screw it up!
Thanks.
 
Hello folks!
All is well... so far!
CPU temp reported a little high (41 degrees) in bios, but I'm told that in that environment cores work at max so a bit of heat is to be expected.
So, as yet no catastraboom!
Woohoo!
Thanks. :)
 
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