Backing Plate Mod for FuZion

[CyberDruid]

Here's a cheap and simple mod that will help you get the most out of a waterblock mount.

The waterblock here is a FuZion but it works with any block or HS.

First of all don't be a lazy chump! Open your FuZion and deslag the upper O ring.





That will take all of a minute...


You can get into washers, and nozzles and bowing the block yaday yada... but none of that is going to do what this mod does...


Typical FuZion mount...


Can you see that 1/8" bow? In a month it will be just about permanent and a lot more than that...


Can you see how this is effecting MOSFET heatsink already? The chips in the middle arealmost getting an airgap...


This is a backing plate from a T.R.U.E. The Fuzion screws thread right into it. Don't use the plastic washers!


THe backingplate was pretty cheap. I bought a dozen at once from TankGuys for my client builds and lil boutique.


No need for washers etc..the TRUE plate is perfect for the LGA 775 socket and fits like a dream.


Now the MOSFET cooler (Viper John) does make the board bow a touch there and really there is no good remedy for this...the backing palte would have to be really narrow and hence bendy...


But now the FuZion is not ascerbating the problem...and you don't need to crank down the thumbnuts nearly as hard to get a secure mount.


And there you have it...

Hope that helps!

[bigslappy]

Nice Job ! PM sent
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[ripken204]

im confused, what exactly did you do differently?

many of us already use that backplate. and what exactly does cutting off part of the o-ring do?

[whatever]

You can also use the EK LGA775 backplate ! Same results.

Congrats!

[Petra]

and what exactly does cutting off part of the o-ring do?

The Fuzion blocks are assembled and sealed with a liquid gasket substance... and they tend to use a bit too much of it (hence the excess). It's just a cleanup exercise, really--there's no reason to leave all that extra junk in there.

You can also use the EK LGA775 backplate ! Same results.

The Scythe backplate works well, too.

[philbrown23]

good idea, I was already doing it but there's quite a few that do not, and when you wanna take the fuzion off, it's much easier to imo.

[bigslappy]

You can also use the EK LGA775 backplate ! Same results.

Congrats!

But don't those & the sycthe back plates , they don't have the pass thru collars as that back plate that CD's is using .
Which puts all the pressure on the block mounting & the backplate & not much on the MoBo it's self ?
that is what i can tell... I have a sycthe back plate & it don't have the collars
& from what i can tell from Pix of the EK backplate they don't have them

I noticed yesterday that the Fusion back plate is bowing my MoBo on my test bed & i ordered the CD backplate as soon as i seen his post .........he has them up on his site Now !

[MpG]

Used a Koolance backing plate for mine. Love the thumbscrews!

[GreyMouser]

How funny! I have the exact same backplate and motherboard, and that's exactly how I set mine up (although mine is a Scythe backplate; they look identical, probably are,) and just used the Fuzion mounting gear in reverse from Fuzion's instructions. Not sure whether I got an "old" Scythe backplate or what, but the threading between the backplate and the Fuzion mounting gear was an exact match, not pass-through, so the screws just locked down into the plate. The only tricky bit was how to prevent the backplate from falling off the back of the mobo, necessitating a full dismount, if I needed to re-mount the waterblock (since the screws have to come all the way out to dismount the block with the Fuzion kit.) Sticky tape doesn't really give enough force to keep the plate attached to the back of the mobo when you're mounting, so I ended up screwing 2 screws in through the entire mount framework, sans spring, on opposite corners to keep a hold on the backplate, mounting the other 2 corners normally, then going back and springing the original corners. A little more time-consuming, but less so than dismounting the entire mobo from the tray every time! I guess I could have hacked off the screw tops from the Fuzion mount kit to simplify things, but eh...

Cheers,
-M

[bigslappy]

How funny! I have the exact same backplate and motherboard, and that's exactly how I set mine up (although mine is a Scythe backplate; they look identical, probably are,) and just used the Fuzion mounting gear in reverse from Fuzion's instructions. Not sure whether I got an "old" Scythe backplate or what, but the threading between the backplate and the Fuzion mounting gear was an exact match, not pass-through, so the screws just locked down into the plate. The only tricky bit was how to prevent the backplate from falling off the back of the mobo, necessitating a full dismount, if I needed to re-mount the waterblock (since the screws have to come all the way out to dismount the block with the Fuzion kit.) Sticky tape doesn't really give enough force to keep the plate attached to the back of the mobo when you're mounting, so I ended up screwing 2 screws in through the entire mount framework, sans spring, on opposite corners to keep a hold on the backplate, mounting the other 2 corners normally, then going back and springing the original corners. A little more time-consuming, but less so than dismounting the entire mobo from the tray every time! I guess I could have hacked off the screw tops from the Fuzion mount kit to simplify things, but eh...

Cheers,
-M

The backplate CD's using will make resetting a block VERY easy & quite quick also
& Most Important = the not bowing of the MoBo