Are motherboard standoff screws really necessary...

Are motherboard standoff screws really necessary? I have my motherboard screwed in my HAF X case and I found out it's missing two standoff screws. The motherboard is functioning properly, no errors or anything. The motherboard I have is the ASUS X99-Deluxe II.

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The standoff screws are mainly there to prevent your metal case bridging and shorting circuits on the back of the motherboard. Missing a couple won't do shit, as long as the motherboard isn't touching the case.

remove them all and power it on

you will then see, empirically, if standoff screws are really necessary.

They are. It might not happen the first day. Or the first three weeks. But I fried my first board on my first PC after like 3 months because I didn't put the standoffs in because somehow none of the tutorials I watched mentioned them and neither did the motherboard manual.

Two missing probably isn't a huge deal, the problem comes if you have 3 in one corner missing so there is no support barely at all on the very corner, in these cases it is rather easy to push the motherboard against the metal case and short the motherboard.

This generally can't happen with only 2 standoffs missing, but i'd still put them in too be sure nothing fucks up.

>missing two standoff screws
these assholes are so goddanm cheap.
they never give the full standoffs "becuase your case should have the full amount already" so you call the case manufacturer and they tell you "your motherboard should come with the full amount becuase they come in different sizes and know exactly what you need"
filthy cheap fucks fuck them.

>This generally can't happen with only 2 standoffs missing, but i'd still put them in too be sure nothing fucks up.
wouldn't that require taking the enter board out?

well atcually it didn't come with any standoffs and only four screws, had to use the screws from the board I took out

...yea?

damn I'm too lazy for that

Fair enough, motherboards aren't cheap, and X99 boards aren't going to go down in price particularly, so just hope nothing happens I guess. I wouldn't put your computer on it's side or jostle it around while it's turned on though just in case it causes the motherboard to make contact with the metal of the case.

are you missing the screws that go into the standoffs or the standoffs themselves?

how the fuck does your motherboard not just flop around in your case without it screwed in

this is like if you installed fans and said
>do i need to have them screwed in????

meh, I don't know maybe I will, it's just a lot of trouble

>standoffs themselves

it is screwed in

no. i've been building computers for people for 20 years and i have never used any standoff screws

here is my computer

Then you're fine

if it's all screwed in then that means it is "standing off"

/thread

>that gpu sag
jesus christ

I know, how fix?

If you want something official looking you can get this

amazon.com/Puget-Systems-Universal-Acrylic-Brace/dp/B019ZZQVK8

or you can go the ghetto route and use a chopstick cut to the proper size, or a stack of legos built to the correct height.

RIP PCIe slot

b-b-but the advertisements...

>RIP PCIe slot
what are you talking about?

what was that?

>what was that?
what?

GPU sag eventually can cause the PCIe slot to break open and stop making a connection to your card.

Do you pay for health or life insurance? If the answer was yes to either of those than you have your answer.

Now time to wait for a random retard to rip that out of the mobo while trying to remove the GPU. With the extra solder joints and all.

i have collected about 100+ stand off screws, some brands give you way too goddamn much

thumb screws are the most useful though can't have enough of them

you might be able too fix some of that sag, if you properly screwed it in.

I like this picture desu, mind if I save it?

>tfw took my PC apart to fuck with it
>put GPU back in
>realized I had been putting the support screws on the brace on the back panel in the wrong place all along and not through the bracket
>mfw my GPU had been hanging by its PCI for about 2 years now

What's going on missing only comes one thumb screw

when you have the case lying on the floor, and the card is in strait with no sag, if you secure it in by 2 points instead of just one, my guess it will stay more strait, sag less.

>if you secure it in by 2 points
but only one screw will go there

Point 1 is the motherboard slot

Point 2 is the screw that you screw in to hold the card in place.

show me on the pic, what you are talking about please

im not this guy
im this guy
and this is the 2 spots that im fairly certain are too screw in that card.

>Are motherboard standoff screws really necessary?

>and this is the 2 spots that im fairly certain are too screw in that card.
ah thanks, well have to check that

No, standoffs are used to simply improve the cooling of your motherboard. It's only a few degrees difference, so really not that important. You're totally fine.

Why are separate standoffs still a thing anyway? The case should have built in shit already in place.

>and this is the 2 spots that im fairly certain are too screw in that card.
just tried putting another thumb screw there, made no difference at all, still sags

The damage is already done.

>The damage is already done.
explain

As long as your motherboard has at least SOME standoff screws keeping it off the case, you're fine. But like said, DO NOT FORGET THE STANDOFF SCREWS

I did that once. Built up a computer for my brother (this was way back in like high school) and put it together, then thought something looks funny about the motherboard. Whatever, I thought, and plugged everything in. Click the power button, fans spool up, then everything turns off.

It was about 30 minutes of troubleshooting before I realized that the motherboard was screwed directly to the case. And when you're in high school, that hundred bucks you just (literally) burned felt reeeeeal bad.

You'll probably have to twist it the other way in order to get it to settle.

>stack of legos built to the correct height
kek

I'd build a top-end gaming system and include lego support bricks in the pictures just to trigger people on Sup Forums

I don't it's going to work without a brace, and what you mean twist it the other way, a screw only goes on one way

Because people don't always use ATX motherboards in ATX cases or eATX mobos in full towers.

Also because motherboard manufacturers are retarded and standoff locations aren't standardized across all sizes.

you have cancer now, it's terminal

>you have cancer now, it's terminal
nope

Semi-related.
youtube.com/watch?v=m5MPL8mx-D8
Do people actually use this shit? Seems harder than actually handling the CPU and having the border encase it seems like possible heating trouble.

mine came with that, I didn't even know I had one until after I installed it, guess they expect you to know every damn thing

No it won't you mong.

Nvidia has a video where they dropped a full computer with a 12inch GPU in the PCI-e and it did nothing to it at all. Why the fuck do you think the mount brackets have U shaped screw catches for?

But... why wouldn't you just put it in the socket?

Like I understand what all that shit does but for what purpose?

>Why the fuck do you think the mount brackets have U shaped screw catches for?
Not the guy you replied to but I actually don't know. Seems like it'd make more sense for the brackets to rest on top of the screw for support, rather than just hope that it's tight enough to support it.

Aslong as you balance the standoff screws so that part of the mobo can touch the computer case its fine.

I have had so many problems in the past with adding 1hdd to the computer, and then everything no longer works, take the hdd out and still nothing works, and no way to source the internet for an answer.

God I had so many fucking issues, I still have a ribbon cable installed in my computer because i'm afraid to take it out.

still not use to modern computer not being fucking horrible with change one part and everything goes... less then 3 months out from my brand new build, no old tech, no old parts, computer.

make the computer look like that one where everything was fucked, the mother board wasn't even screwed in.

you make a very good point

OP has their GPU in the PCI-e 8x slot.
Wow.

>implying there's any difference
the cpu/gpu hardly ever talk to eachother, so having more than 500mbps bandwidth is really no biggie.

>youtube.com/watch?v=m5MPL8mx-D8

What the fuck kind of mongoloid shit is this?
Niggas can't install a CPU???

>No it won't you mong.
Holy shit you're unable to read english.

>GPU sag eventually CAN cause the PCIe slot to break open and stop making a connection to your card.

See the word CAN there, it means that something may OR may not happen.

I never said it WILL do this, I said it CAN, it is a possibility, it MIGHT happen. At no time did I imply or even attempt to imply this will happen to ALL GPUs that sag.


Why dont you go fuck yourself instead of trying to pick fights on the internet over your own lack of reading comprehension skills.