Are the standoffs the big bronze barrel things or the things you screw them Into?

[Locky6]

So I built my first ever of yeseterday and later that night i found a note saying IMPORTANT remove unused motherboard standoffs or something like that. I took my pc apart but I am confused to which ones are standoffs could they be already taken out? If they are the things that you put the bronze barrels in I have tried taking these out and i can't. My pc seems to be working fine.

 

[alexoiu]

Some cases come with standoffs preinstalled. If board does work, it means they are fine.
http://www.cybergooch.com/tutorials/images/buildsystem/IMG_6805.jpg

 

[synphul]

A full atx board will usually use all the standoffs. Yes, the standoffs are the brass hex shaped barrel nuts. They have male threads on one end and screw into the back panel behind the motherboard. The other end has female threads and it's what you screw the motherboard retaining screws into. If they came preinstalled though in an atx configuration and say you installed a micro atx motherboard there would be a couple extras that you could go ahead and remove. You'd see them because they'd be exposed.

It's a good idea to remove any extras since those barrel nuts act as a ground to the case chassis and you don't really want extra protrusions that could potentially make contact with something else like a misc wire, extra molex or something and create a direct short.

 

[Locky6]

Some cases come with standoffs preinstalled. If board does work, it means they are fine.
http://www.cybergooch.com/tutorials/images/buildsystem/IMG_6805.jpg

Thanks everything is working and I didn't see any other standoff just spots where I could install some standoffs which came in a little packet so I think it's all good