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    #62
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Go for it. :)

    Just remember to keep the motherboard isolated from other stuff; you don't want anything shorting on you.


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    #63
    Monotype
    Registered Users Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    I remember reading someone on another forum saying they screwed their motherboard onto cardboard. They were going to do it with wood but thought it would be too much of a fire hazard.
    I'm not exactly sure how cardboard is much less risky!


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    #64
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    You don't even have to screw it in, just leave it on the anti-static bag the board came in. If you want to be sure, you can put the stand-offs on as well, but it'll work perfectly outside the case.


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    #65
    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Serephucus wrote: »
    You don't even have to screw it in, just leave it on the anti-static bag the board came in. If you want to be sure, you can put the stand-offs on as well, but it'll work perfectly outside the case.

    Nooo, don't do that. Anti-static bags work on a similar principal to Faraday cages. The outside is highly conductive which creates an electric field that causes any charges inside the bag to rearrange and cancel out.

    So a motherboard thats resting on an antistatic bag is like trying to boot one thats in a case with no standoffs.


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    #66
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Hm, well apparently lots of people made the mistake (I've never tried it myself), but good to know before I end up needing to do this!


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