Pre-installation
Let’s first do inventory on what we have:
The first step is to do some pre-assembly on the motherboard – first changing the CPU cooler brackets to the ones supplied by Noctua with it’s massive NH-D15-SE-AM4 cooler (weighing 980 grams without fans, you can see the new brackets in the picture)
Then seat the CPU in the AM4 socket:
And don’t forget to put the NVMe drive and RAM into place:
Final step in the pre-assembly is to put the CPU cooler into place (the RAM socket placement forced me to seat the other fan a bit high):
