Appreciate all the replies! The RIVE states it is an E-ATX but it is not truly E-ATX, the standoff pattern is regular ATX. I actually followed the instructions on the motherboard backplate, which for E-ATX it said to put in 13 standoffs. Obviously, I ended up with 4 extra standoffs. They included the extra one under the motherboard, and 3 others at the very right side edge of the backplate, 3 inches away from the edge of the board itself. Finished the assembly, and he is rockin his new system now. We went with the cheapie 3820 CPU, which we'll swap for an Ivy Bridge-E next year (when he has more cash). 32 gigs of RAM, HD7870, he's all happy!
I've been building my own computers for 15 years, starting with an ASUS P2L97 board. Old school! Paid $964 for the PII 300 MHz CPU I put in that board. I've always used ASUS boards and they've never let me down. Well OK I did have one DOA, but you'll have that on occasion. I love this forum. Plus, my name is Roger and I have always gone by ROG. Now my favorite manufacturer has ROG boards. Awesome!
My current problem since I got his system together? Swapping files to his computer with a thumb drive seems to have screwed up the USB ports in my P5Q Pro Turbo. Intemittent random disconnects and reconnects of my USB mouse. Tried different mice, all do the same thing. Different USB ports... same thing. Have tried sfc scannow, diasbling & re-enabling USB via BIOS and uninstalling & reinstalling mouse driver software. No dice... same problem remains. Afraid I may have toasted my mobo. The disconnect/reconnect problem eventuall ends up with a mouse that never reconnects and does not show in Device Manager. Switch ports... never recognized. I try to reboot... it gets stuck at "windows is shutting down" and I have to hit the reset button. I am now fully exasperated. Got my buddy workin, and now I'm dead in the water. No gaming for me!
Time for a reboot...
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Using ASUS motherboards exclusively since model P2L97.