What should I do with the sticking out I/O shield tabs?

[zMartin]

I've just built my PC and realised that there are these metal things sticking out which would make it impossible to use one usb 3 port and the ethernet port. It took me about 10 hours to build this PC and I really don't want to take it all apart just to bend them into the correct place. People say that they ground the ports but isn't the PSU enough? What should I do? Take it all apart? Try to bend them inward? cut them off?

 

[Y0GI]

If it were mine, the only solution that I could accept would be to disassemble it and put the tabs where they belong.

YMMV.

Yogi

 

[zMartin]

If it were mine, the only solution that I could accept would be to disassemble it and put the tabs where they belong.

YMMV.

Yogi

Why?

 

[Y0GI]

If it were mine, the only solution that I could accept would be to disassemble it and put the tabs where they belong.

YMMV.

Yogi

Why?

Because I have always had the impression (rightly or wrongly) that the purpose of the tabs is to properly ground the sockets and the MB connectors to the case ground.

Yogi

 

[Pinhedd]

I've just built my PC and realised that there are these metal things sticking out which would make it impossible to use one usb 3 port and the ethernet port. It took me about 10 hours to build this PC and I really don't want to take it all apart just to bend them into the correct place. People say that they ground the ports but isn't the PSU enough? What should I do? Take it all apart? Try to bend them inward? cut them off?

Those protruding metal tabs are there to help hold and guide the back panel into place while keeping the IO shield from popping out of position.

The typical approach is to insert the metal IO shield first (make sure that it's fully inserted and snapped into place all around), followed by inserting the motherboard on an angle beneath the IO shield and carefully manoeuvring it into position such that the metal flaps press down on the tops of the connectors.

 

[zMartin]

To put it in the correct position I'd have to remove the CPU cooler because it's attached to the back and Then I would have to buy something to remove the thermal paste and then buy some thermal paste and apply it. How dangerous would it be to just cut 2 of them off?