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hello,
i m trying out wall mount pc. i have fixed on almost everything except my mobo .. so if i screw in the standoffs directly to plywood , will it fall off when place vertically as the plywood wont be having any threads. if so will gluing the standoff to plywood with araldite adhesive with epoxy do the trick ?

components which mobo will be having are :
msi z97 gaming 5
212 evo cpu fan
4x rams sticks
gtx 1070

the mobo has 9 standoffs . will it be able to manage the weigh of all these components . any expert or who has experience plz help

thank u and hoping for ur reply .
 
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what you need is a mobo tray. Like so: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kustompcs.co.uk%2Facatalog%2F2014.jpg&f=1

I had this same issue but when I used a card in the system the lack of a backplate securing the cards broke my slots. the weight of the cards and the cables attached without a support is not going to be successful for long.

if you can scavenge an old case you can cut out the tray you need.
once a tray is gotten I would screw it to the wood with a flathead screws that would be lower that the motherboard standoffs.
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You will definitely need extra support for the GPU. The mobo is designed to carry weight of cooler, ram, cpu, etc but not any PCIe cards. You could seriously damage either the slot or the card if you try to mount the Mobo vertically without supporting the gpu.
 
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what you need is a mobo tray. Like so: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kustompcs.co.uk%2Facatalog%2F2014.jpg&f=1

I had this same issue but when I used a card in the system the lack of a backplate securing the cards broke my slots. the weight of the cards and the cables attached without a support is not going to be successful for long.

if you can scavenge an old case you can cut out the tray you need.
once a tray is gotten I would screw it to the wood with a flathead screws that would be lower that the motherboard standoffs.
 
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lol i never thought the pci card slot .. u are right gtx 1070 gigabyte G1 is kinda heavy too .. thank u so much for reminding it. so i will need to make a stand to hold the card vertically.
 
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as i alwayz go for single gpu , i will try making it custom 1 from aluminium sheet. similar to that of tray holder but only a single piece . if i put the tray it will look horrible as other slots wont be used .
thank u for ur advice .
 
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This is very good advice. From experience, making a mobo tray is easy, making a mobo tray that adequately supports shit is harder than it sounds.
 
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i was trying to use the hdmi cable to pull up the gpu weight upward . so some of its weight is being pull up and the gpu power cable to carry on the weight like a "swing" .

and adhesive which i mention will do the trick for the mobo stand offs ?
 
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doing that will pull down on the HDMI port/edge of the card, which will put awkward pressure across the PCIe slot. up at the rear down in front, stress and solder points do not like each other.

the adhesive would need to be 6.4mm thick to replace a ATX standoff. any thinner and you will have to trim the GPU backplate as it is designed to pass through the motherboard tray as a security point for the bottom. screw at top and the 6mm slot in the motherboard tray are the two securing points for the GPU aside from the slot itself.
 
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That would be pretty bad for your cable, GPU, and mobo. So overall, that doesn't really solve your issue.
The stress on the cable might increase the chance that it will have internal damage (though a good cable can probably handle the weight of the GPU). The bigger issue is the connector. Stressing a connector is never a good idea, and stressing a complex cable like HDMI is just as bad an idea. The more stress on the connector, the lower it's lifespan. Both the contacts on the connector end and the solder joints connecting the connector to the board will not be happy about this out of design spec stress.

Lastly, not supporting the GPU the way it was intended to be could introduce flex in the GPU and worse, introduce unnatural stress on the PCIe slot. As stated above, solder joints aren't the best as mechanical connections and you might end up breaking a few.

While I don't know the strength of the adhesive you mentioned, there aren't very many adhesives I'd trust with carrying the weight of a mobo and air cooler. Maybe if you had a water block instead of an air cooler, I'd trust a few of the stronger epoxies or instant set plastics, but never with an air cooler.
 
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Agreed that 212 evo weighs a ton hahhaaa .
 
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