BlankThis

XFreeRollerX, how are you going to mount this on a mobo tray? I don't think spacers are big enough... Cut a whole in MoBo tray?

Looks good!

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XFreeRollerX

This is true! I must have forgone this detail in my wishful thinking

I will tell you though, it really did reduce how much flex I had

Well seeing as my motherboard tray has large hollow spots and only beams to support standoffs, there is plenty room for me... I did not think about that issue but some may have to cut a hole

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BlankThis

OK thanks for the speedy reply.

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XFreeRollerX

Any ideas on materials from a local store? Im not paying for shipping again

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ira-k

Cut up a rubber mouse pad and use that as a spacer, you might have to stack it, i don't know how large a gap you have...I usually use neoprene since i have scraps of that most of the time...

I do mine a little different, I have a HDPE piece that goes on the back of my mobo tray, then I use a back-plate between tray and mobo with neoprene between back-plate and mobo tray...That way all the pressure is on the back of my tray, the neoprene keeps the mobo from flexing much....Next time I'll ream out my back-plate legs so it will slide up and down on the studs, its just there to insulate my studs from the mobo anyway...Its a pain screwing my studs into the right length to fit right...

In the first pic the back-plate legs aren't up through the mobo yet, I pull them through and use nylon washers to insulate it from the mobo, then nuts and washers on top of those...

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Adrienspawn

RMA your mobo. Somethings not right.

jk, funny way to insulate, though.

For the mobo-backplate material, mouse pads are nie, and they can be had for 2$ locally at some places. If not, maybe cardoard, cloth, or even a sock.

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I don't think a sock would be a good choice.

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PappyDan

well while you were at the local hardware store you should have looked for a cheap rubber mat to cut out a section to place between the board and the new backing plate.

XFreeRollerX

I like the mousepad Idea

I might do it next time I clean out the WC loop... right now things are working fine and mobo isn't stressed at all although this rubber backplate will make the stress absolute zero.

I dont want to tinker much more right now because tinkering costs money... even if it is this lil backplate mod remount...thats more CPU paste I need to buy!

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sLowEnd

Oooh nicely cut backplate

Now lap/polish it to a prestine shine!

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