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DIWHY does that look like an old AMD socket? (Or lga 775)
I am 90% sure this is an Intel system judging by the cooler.
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.
Your pixels to text capabilities are clearly superior to mine. I stand corrected.
I agree, the cooler block itself looks very much like the reference cooler that came with my boxed AMD 2600x processor, and the heat spreader of the cpu and the socket look like the ones in the pc i am writing this from, which is an AM4 system.
You'd be mistaken, Intel hasn't had a clip mounting system since socket 478 P3 days. Even P4 on 478 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.
Yeah, you're right. I was looking at the fin layout, but forgot to check the mounting system.
Is that a normal place to put the cooler on intel systems?
Do I detect the need for a whoosh community?
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.