Your moms not good looking or smart , but she should ' ve been a genius based on her looks . Very unlucky and it looks like it got passed down . <| sep |> I can ' t tell you how many times I have had customers bring in their home built PCs with NO STANDOFFS ! !!! I mean , whenever I try to assemble something I ' ve never done before I at least look at the pictures . There would have been 2 sets of instructions they completely ignored when assembling their multithousand dollar gaming rigs . The case booklet and motherboard booklet BOTH tell you to use standoffs ! The last guy even used a couple of the standoffs as screws to hold the mobo to the backplane ! Somehow they are usually lucky enough to not have killed anything , so all I usually need to do is reinstall the board correctly . The last one worked for a few months with no standoffs I ' m guessing due to the insulating properties of the case ' s paint job . It stopped working when he tried to upgrade to 32 GB of DDR 4 and the force from the installation must have caused the solder points on the board to scratch off just enough paint to short it out on the case . Again , all I did was tear it down and rebuild it and it worked . I guess I can ' t complain too much , it is job security after all ! EDIT Forgot to mention his overheating issue on his brand new Thermaltake AIO water cooler with a 2 x 120 RAD . That ' s what happens when you try to use giant globs of 3 different kinds of thermal paste .