Quote Originally Posted by Bootup05 View Post
Im not sure if I'd need any backplates or not.

The board has backplates on already, well what look like backplates anyway, metal plates behind the cpu socket area, these are detachable.

Dave should be able to tell us what it is these are.
The back plate which that mobo has is wrong type...
I'll show u:

Right type of backplate:


Wrong type of backplate (comes with mobo)


There is simple explanation: those oringinal backplates are ment for case which has already lga604 or lga771 coolers on them.

But yea those backplates costs around $3-5 so not really big deal...