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The design of this mounting system is incredibly unfortunate considering this cooler is meant to go into SFF cases.1) As seen in your photos, the screws sticking out so far from the back of the motherboard can potentially damage PCIe riser cables, or even block mounting of the motherboard entirely in some sandwich-style cases.2) Any "screw in from the back" design is pretty inconvenient for sandwich-style cases because to get to the back of the motherboard you have to also pull out the video card (if not remove the motherboard entirely).3) The combined AMD/Intel backplate can interfere with components on the motherboard. In my case, I cannot mount this backplate on my Asus Strix Z370-I motherboard because the unused "AMD" portion of the backplate touches several pins sticking out of the back of the motherboard.
The design of this mounting system is incredibly unfortunate considering this cooler is meant to go into SFF cases.
1) As seen in your photos, the screws sticking out so far from the back of the motherboard can potentially damage PCIe riser cables, or even block mounting of the motherboard entirely in some sandwich-style cases.
2) Any "screw in from the back" design is pretty inconvenient for sandwich-style cases because to get to the back of the motherboard you have to also pull out the video card (if not remove the motherboard entirely).
3) The combined AMD/Intel backplate can interfere with components on the motherboard. In my case, I cannot mount this backplate on my Asus Strix Z370-I motherboard because the unused "AMD" portion of the backplate touches several pins sticking out of the back of the motherboard.
