Help Cut this down in costs a bit.

Serephucus

Go for it.

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

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!

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.

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.

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!