Mounting the Motherboard

[RudeDawg]

I thought ATX was an industry standard. Why is it that out of about a dozen holes that are marked as being for ATX in my case (Thermaltake Element G) only 5 holes in the motherboard line up with the standoffs in the case? Is this enough to hold the board securely?

[freakinerick]

even 4 screws can hold your mboard just dont let your mobo touches the metal chasis.. i can say bad  things will happen if it does.
just balance the division of screw..

[RudeDawg]

Thankage Rick! Turns out when I took my goggles off I could see one more that lined up. So I have 6 total holding the board in place.

[Allan]

More than enough. The rest of the holes are to make sure it aligns with any box you may use.

[patio]

Make sure you use the MBoard standoffs...

[ale52]

Do they still supply standoffs?  I can't remember that they do.  I keep a bunch of them around but I've had them for years.

Alan <>< 

[patio]

ASUS and Gigabyte still do...last 2 boards i used for builds...
Everyone else has gotten cheap and stopped including them.

Kinda stupid since they're pretty important and someone doing his 1st build not knowing any better will fry a MBoard/CPU combo....

[RudeDawg]

I didn't get any standoffs with the motherboard but Thermaltake kindly included more than enough with the case (Element G).