Corsair 350d standoff question

jareDrake13 · May 8, 2014

Hi, i just got the corsair 350d matx case for my matx board, but I am wondering something, so the standoffs are pre installed , which is cool, but there is a standoff in the middle where my board doesn't have a standoff hole! It doesen't seem to be amble to be removed, can it be? If it can't , is it okay for that one to touch the board?

sirstinky · May 8, 2014

Generally you don't want anything to touch the backside of the motherboard except the parts where the mounting holes for the standoffs go. They are isolated from the circuitry tracers. I haven't seen a Corsair case with that, but I've seen preinstalled standoffs in other cases that can be removed. You should be able to remove it by unscrewing it with a nut driver or needle nose pliers.

Outlander_04 · May 8, 2014

what motherboard do you have?

The hole locations are part of the m-ATX standard and should be there

zeph_yr · May 8, 2014

If you really cant take it off I'd just stick a little bit of electrical tape over the standoff and then install the motherboard into whatever holes are there.

sirstinky · May 8, 2014

Or use a dremel or side cutters to cut it off 8^) like outlander said, either way the mounting holes for mATX boards are the same across the board. The only cases I've seen that had standoffs welded to the sheet metal were $18 one hung lo cases or OEM cases for cheap PC's.

jareDrake13 · May 9, 2014

Outlander_04 :

so i am trying to install the case right now, and it fits, but the weird extra lining up hole goes through one of the side holes. My mobo is a matx board, it's the Asus h61m-a/usb3! But, the standoff hole in the bottom right doesen't even hover over a standoff area, and i positioned it n the only way the back ports would properly sit, no I/O shield is in. Would it be okay to leave the hole,empty, i mean, it's not contacting metal?

Outlander_04 · May 9, 2014

Yes , you wont need that one screw .

Make sure you put the i/o shield in though

jareDrake13 · May 11, 2014

sirstinky :

so it truns out my matx board is weird, it doesn't have the standard mounting holes as all the other Matx boards, so i welded a standoff in, it's been a few days, not a single problem!

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