AMD socket A had the noses for attaching the cooler directly at the CPU socket. This one has an AM4 socket where the cooler is supposed to be attached to the two black supports above and below the CPU socket.

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 8 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I am 90% sure this is an Intel system judging by the cooler.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You'd be mistaken, Intel hasn't had a clip mounting system since socket 370 P3 days. Even P4 on 423 had 4 corner mounting systems and all of the Intel systems had them since.

The cheapo aluminum coolers from Intel always had that rotated design to get a little bit more surface area in the same volume. With the age of this system Intel had copper pucks in the middle of their heatsinks. It wasn't till later they went full aluminum. This is very clearly an AM4 motherboard as seen by the mounting.

Like the other commenter pointed out, it's an A320M-C board, it says right on it.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago

Looks like an ASUS A320M-C based on the very hard to read text and the layout.

https://motherboarddb.com/motherboards/378/

So an early AMD AM4 motherboard.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is that a normal place to put the cooler on intel systems?

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 4 hours ago

Do I detect the need for a whoosh community?