[SOLVED] What standoffs does CoolerMaster MasterBox 5 Lite use?

[michaelralaimo]

I bought my friend a MasterBox lite 5 second hand recently but it only came with 5 standoff screws,

he doesn't know much about computers and I've already given it to him and it's probably up to me to find more standoffs

does anyone know what thread size standoff screws this cases uses? I cant find anything anywhere

thank you

 

[Math Geek]

as far as i know they are standard for cases. i have a cup of them gathered from many many builds and never had an issue simply grabbing a couple when i needed them. they have always worked no problem without considering where it came from.

 

[Karadjgne]

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/321766158461

Or just visit any pc shop, they'll have a bunch.

 

[Math Geek]

thanks. for some reason i forgot to link to some he could pick up. 🙁

 

[jsmithepa]

Doesn't everybody have a screws jar in the garage? 😀

 

[Math Geek]

if op lived near me, i'd hand him 50 of them for free, that's how many of them i have in a nice big jar. i suspect most who work on pc's have tons of them as well as thumb screws, cables, stock heatsinks/fans. i even keep old case switches since they tend to go bad. quick to switch em out for folks when they go bad.

 

[Karadjgne]

The standoffs are 6/32 pins and the screws should be M3 4mm to 5mm. You'll see many kits with 6mm or 6.5mm and those are to be avoided as the stupid things come with pretty red washers, which totally defeats the purpose of using the standoff screws to extend the motherboard ground plane to the motherboard tray. If you try and use the 6-6.5mm without washers, they'll bottom out before securing the motherboard snug, and chances are good you'll get intermittent static or snaps across speakers/headphones etc.

 

[michaelralaimo]

Thanks for the replies everyone

Do you know for sure that it's m3 screws to 6-32 standoff end?



when i was messing around with the case i tried to stick in another standoff from a super old pc case and noticed that the standoff from the old case was too big, which kinda led me to assume that I needed m3 standoffs (who knows what size that old standoff is really im just assuming it was 6-32)

I bought a 300pc m3 stand off set from amazon with various heights and a bunch of m3 screws, I'm thinking ill just see how that goes and if they dont fit ill buy the same thing again but 6-32 sizing

if it is 6-32 to m3 or something weird like that, i can totally just use 6-32 to 6-32 standoffs and 6-32 screws or m3-m3 standoffs and m3 screws? I dont need to keep it 6-32 to m3 do i?


**I've never had to think about standoff screws before :s :s :s

The standoffs are 6/32 pins and the screws should be M3 4mm to 5mm. You'll see many kits with 6mm or 6.5mm and those are to be avoided as the stupid things come with pretty red washers, which totally defeats the purpose of using the standoff screws to extend the motherboard ground plane to the motherboard tray. If you try and use the 6-6.5mm without washers, they'll bottom out before securing the motherboard snug, and chances are good you'll get intermittent static or snaps across speakers/headphones etc.

 

[Karadjgne]

Modern pc cases use the 6/32 screw base (male) / M3 interior (female). Old AT cases used a somewhat larger standoff, or even plastic snaps like the trim in a car. And some were, of course, proprietary. They have settled on the smaller standoff as industry standard due simply to the amount of mobo real estate available with the sheer amount of components and circuitry on the mobo.

 

[michaelralaimo]

Thank you for explaining it to me,

I just bought a 50 pack on ebay