Zerotherm Btf90 Back plate Question

Indyboy2

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Mar 14, 2005
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Maybe someone can enlighten me on this.I bought 2 of these coolers and i am wondering why the backplate desighn is different between the two of them
One of them looks just like every other 775 backplate i have worked with it has a square center hole in it for clearance for the microcomponents under the socket.Now the second one looks identical to the first except it has no center hole in it just a dimple in the center to keep uniform clearance throught the backplate but the dimple rest right on the solders underneath the socket.It comes with a insultaing pad to go underneath but i just dont like it so i sent it back for another and received the same style back.Its going on a IX38 quad gt board the more i look at it i really dont se what it will hurt its just solder but what do you guys think i installed it and it seems to be fine?
 

JBDan

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Metal touching or 'possibly' touching the back side of my mobo? That scares me, but could you post a few pics so that we could see it?