Pins to hold screws under motherboard from tuniq tower interfere with new cooler?

[SkeeterUK]

Hi all.

Due to recent issues u can see in my other thread in cpu section ull notice i bought a Arctic Alpine 11 Pro Rev.2 cooler. I thought the mb had nothing but holes for a new cooler but i think theres a backplate that held 4 screw holders there cos if i press on the holes they're raised and can be pressed in a bit. Unless there isnt a backplate which i dont recall using and the springy things i been pushing on where hsf coolers holes are, are there from mb by design and i shouldnt worry?

Just wondering if i have to take mb off cos i hate taking them off and redoing things and rebuilding with all the wires again, grr.

Do you think i can get away with mounting the new cooler into them things in the holes or not.

I can probably guess the replies but hoping for hope that i can get away with not taking the mb out and taking the things there away and just mount the new cooler in regardless.

If the new cooler fits in the holes tho my worry is will the cooler be raised or lowered too much cos of the things in the holes and en up too much pressure or no contact with new cooler and new cpu.

Dilemmas eh...

Thing is, i dont remember it having a backplate to begin with.

 

[SkeeterUK]

No one?

 

[Steampunk]

You probably didn't get any other reply because your post is a bit incomprehensible and no one understands what you're trying to say, but I'll have a go at it.

Read the fitting instructions for your cooler. If it says remove/use/replace the existing CPU backplate, then do what it says. You can't bodge something like that as at best you'll have an incorrectly seated heatsink that doesn't cool, at worst you'll break something important trying to force two things into one space or without the correct support.

The amount of time you'll waste trying not to dismantle everything is probably more than just taking it apart properly and putting it back together. It really doesn't take that long.

Future tip: read cooler fitting instructions before you install the motherboard, and get a case with a motherboard tray that has a cutout behind the CPU socket for cooling and access.

 

[Urbanfreestyle]

I'm not sure if this will help or not but my motherboard has the backplate stuck to the board. When i take the back off my case there is a hole cut out for accessing the brace.

 

[SkeeterUK]

The thing is tho do I have a backplate under mb or not cos I'm 60% sure I never installed one as I don't think it came with one the tuniq I mean so generally the question was, does the p5kc have springy bits on holes for coolers or not. I'm probably dumb here and it defo wouldn't but meh I can't remember how it was before I put the tuniq on.

Ah well. I'll just take mb out I guess, after thinking about it, with the cooler out of it now all there is is some wires and a GPU on it and the mb has a kinda removable tray so I'll probs just do that and luckily the pins for things like power and reset are contained on a removable socket thing so if I'm careful I can remove it and not have to redo the pins individually like some mb need to do.

Sry for dumbness of the thread I just hate removing mb after a build is er built lol. Been years since I had to build or fix a PC.

 

[Steampunk]

The thing is tho do I have a backplate under mb or not cos I'm 60% sure I never installed one as I don't think it came with one the tuniq I mean so generally the question was, does the p5kc have springy bits on holes for coolers or not. I'm probably dumb here and it defo wouldn't but meh I can't remember how it was before I put the tuniq on.

A lot of motherboards come with backplates already in place designed to take the default heatsinks. You may not have installed a backplate, but there might have already been one there. Depending on the heatsink you use, it may use the old backplate fitting, or may have a new one of it's own. You would then remove the old backplate, put the new one in it's place, and attach the new heatsink to that.