Purpose of these holes?

[Cedex]

While looking for a new heatsink/fan to buy for my cpu, i looked at my motherboard and spotted these holes right next to cpu.

My motherboard manual doesnt mention anything about them. But to me it seems to be a way of anchoring a heavy heatsink to the motherboard, am i right?

 

[diehrd]

You are correct

 

[Cedex]

Ok, thanks for the reply

 

[bored-sarcasm]

what do we have for him jonny? yea its for the beasts' of the heatsink market.

 

[corrosion231]

for heatsinks like the alpha pal 8045's, they are so large and heavy they would rip the socket off the board

 

[Steven4563]

for the SLK-900 and above

 

[Dylruss]

Or even many water blocks use those holes to keep those babies on.

 

[nissmo300]

What kind of MB is that?

 

[Steven4563]

i think its the DFI lanparty

 

[Cedex]

Its the CHAINTECH nForce2 Ultra 400

Link to newegg

 

[dippy_skoodlez]

Its the CHAINTECH nForce2 Ultra 400

Link to newegg

Ewwww

I hate chaintech.. poor RMA service and no overclocking.. why even bother with mounting holes like that? lol!

How far do you have yours at BTW? Wonder if they foodged up their NFII's like their Ti4200's.

 

[theELVISCERATOR]

Ewwww

I hate chaintech.. poor RMA service and no overclocking.. why even bother with mounting holes like that? lol!

How far do you have yours at BTW? Wonder if they foodged up their NFII's like their Ti4200's.

notice only 3 memory slots too...wierd.

 

[violineb]

notice only 3 memory slots too...wierd.

Umm..almost all NFII mobos have 3 mem slots

 

[Edge386]

I had an old Elite mobo like that back when the P4s just came out. It only supported RDRAM and you had the assemble the mounting bracket for the heatsink/fan on the back and front of the mobo yourself, man is that a pain. get one with a bracket already there to save trouble, i reccommend

 

[corrosion231]

I had an old Elite mobo like that back when the P4s just came out. It only supported RDRAM and you had the assemble the mounting bracket for the heatsink/fan on the back and front of the mobo yourself, man is that a pain. get one with a bracket already there to save trouble, i reccommend

its an athlon mobo. there is no bracket.

 

[SK8]

presshot has bolt holes and lug nuts :X

 

[cV]

for lga775

 

[johnnie]

The alpha....a classic