What are these on my motherboard?

baker88

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Hi i am building my first ever pc and i have just got my motherboard (its a micro atx) and i was looking at the mounting holes there is 4 holes around the cpu socket which i presume are the mounting holes Here is a pic of one:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5gjlp90dv5hyov/20140603_113304.jpg

But there are also about 5 other holes over the motherboard, here is a pic of the other holes:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnq5fm69ewpoqzc/20140603_113239.jpg
These holes seem to have solder around them, are these mounting holes to?

Sorry for the noob question i looked in the motherboard Manuel and it does not tell me and i tried to google it but as i did not know what they was nothing of any use came up.
 
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Those holes are guides for screws for the standoffs. They secure the motherboard properly.

Secondly, those holes around the CPU are for the heat sink. If you have a standard Intel CPU, simply push the pins of the fan in, so that is secure and cools the CPU effectively.

There's no shame in not knowing. If you want to make your build hassle-free and seamless, I recommend this video by Tek Syndicate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Js2A1qdB8

This guy is very good with build guides and shows in good detail how to build your system without killing your components.

Hopefully this helps.

dottorrent

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Those holes are guides for screws for the standoffs. They secure the motherboard properly.

Secondly, those holes around the CPU are for the heat sink. If you have a standard Intel CPU, simply push the pins of the fan in, so that is secure and cools the CPU effectively.

There's no shame in not knowing. If you want to make your build hassle-free and seamless, I recommend this video by Tek Syndicate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Js2A1qdB8

This guy is very good with build guides and shows in good detail how to build your system without killing your components.

Hopefully this helps.
 
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baker88

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Thank you for your reply, i should of know that the holes around the cpu where for the heat sink i just was not thinking thank you.