Is this part of the Mobo?

Lankoss · 27 Jan 2019 at 23:21

Hi guys, I have dismantled a PC today to sell off the Mobo and CPU together. It a Asus Crosshair VI AMD board with a Ryzen 7. When I took off the CPU cooler (Dark Rock Pro 4) on the back of the motherboard there was a rectangle plate that the cooler attached too. I am used to seeing the X shaped ones for attaching CPU Coolers to intel boards, but this one looks different, almost as if it is meant to be part of the Motherboard. If you look at the second image on this google image search, thats the plate.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw...0i8i30j0i24.lHOIeRIJ5FA#imgrc=OG9j44ZjVGKIjM:

It looks as though the plastic bits around the socket in this image go onto the backplate from new, I have found them but the don't fit which is puzzling me even more. The holes on the pastic bits are around 10-15mm spaced further apart. Its vexing.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=a...IDygC&biw=2560&bih=1326#imgrc=54isWpmx6kg5KM:

Can anyone help shed some light.

Thanks

Lankoss · 27 Jan 2019 at 23:26

Is it possible the Dark Rock Pro 4 came with the same plate only with the holes spaced slightly closer together, and the original plate was just not included in the box when sent to me?

Edit: Ive just watched an unboxing of the Dark Rock Pro 4 and there is no sign of the plate which confuses me more. I dont get why the pastic mounts that were in the box with the Mobo look exactly like the ones in the stock photo but dont fit the plate that looks exactly like the ones from the stock photo lol.

Smffy · 28 Jan 2019 at 09:46

What socket was the cooler on before mate? I’m guessing it may not have been AM4...

The rear bracket on the board is spaced for the AM4 holes, the plastic mounts come with the ASUS boards installed (also AM4). You mention cross shaped which leads me to assume you had that cooler on a 115x (intel?) socket board. If this is true then you just need this to convert your existing cooler to fit:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/be-quiet-am4-cooler-bracket-hs-018-bq.html

Hope that helps, seems out of stock here and doesn’t list the 4 but google will find it.

BlackBat · 29 Jan 2019 at 10:31

You are correct that the plate/bracket on the back of your MB is part of it and should stay with it if you sell it. If you look at a video to see how that cooler is installed on AM4, it shows that all that is removed from your MB is the plastic supports which are replaced with metal ones before the cooler is fitted. I'm not sure why the plastic supports you have don't fit (you are trying to fit them front to back on the MB in line with the PCI-E sockets aren't you (not the DIMM sockets the RAM goes in)?), as these may (or may not) be needed if fitting another cooler.

Lankoss · 30 Jan 2019 at 21:23

BlackBat said:
You are correct that the plate/bracket on the back of your MB is part of it and should stay with it if you sell it. If you look at a video to see how that cooler is installed on AM4, it shows that all that is removed from your MB is the plastic supports which are replaced with metal ones before the cooler is fitted. I'm not sure why the plastic supports you have don't fit (you are trying to fit them front to back on the MB in line with the PCI-E sockets aren't you (not the DIMM sockets the RAM goes in)?), as these may (or may not) be needed if fitting another cooler.

Yeah I figured it came with the board so I did include it when I sold it. I was definitely trying to put the plastic supports back in the correct way (same way the PCI-E sockets go), the spacing was just wrong for the screw holes so your guess is as good as mine on that one. It's gone now anyway.

Vexr · 31 Jan 2019 at 06:30

Possible water cooler fixture meddling (they can be quite invasive). You say it's gone now, so I'll leave it at that.

Avalon · 6 Feb 2019 at 01:46

THE DR4P didn't come with AM4 mounts at launch (it was pre Ryzen iirc), I know this because I had to jump through pointless hoops to get one sent out from the manufacturer after launch, they wanted me to prove I had a cooler and an AM4 board. HOWEVER the C6H came with a backwards compatible AM3 bracket so you could use a DR4P with it without a revised bracket if you wanted to.