One last thought on board bending, sure if you manhandle the board, you can break it, but if you are careful that won't happen. There are probably dozens of cases where people, like yourself, have broken a motherboard. And maybe one day in the future I will too. But a backplate is a solution looking for a widespread problem that doesn't exist.
Like others have pointed out, 99% of use cases will not require a backplate, and by having to secure the backplate to the motherboard, you have to drill more holes in the motherboard, which cause complications for trace routing and things are going to be sacrificed, like, say, an extra m.2 slot for example. I own the previous generation formula, it came with this backplate and plastic shroud. I removed them both, the backplate also interfered with installation in the case (the case i have was a corsair, it didnt use standoffs, but had bent up metal humps, the backplate interfered with that and the board would not rest on these "standoffs". The board was and is running absolutely fine without the backplate, i did not break it, i did not short circuit it. It was essentially extra crap that we had to pay for, at least in my case.
This is probably catering to those people who like that sort of thing (yourself included RejZor because you are so vociferously defending it), but please dont tell us its going to prevent stuff from happening that doesn't usually happen to most users, and admit it is just window dressing, or the spoilers on cars you see people driving around. It's rice.
Like others have pointed out, 99% of use cases will not require a backplate, and by having to secure the backplate to the motherboard, you have to drill more holes in the motherboard, which cause complications for trace routing and things are going to be sacrificed, like, say, an extra m.2 slot for example. I own the previous generation formula, it came with this backplate and plastic shroud. I removed them both, the backplate also interfered with installation in the case (the case i have was a corsair, it didnt use standoffs, but had bent up metal humps, the backplate interfered with that and the board would not rest on these "standoffs". The board was and is running absolutely fine without the backplate, i did not break it, i did not short circuit it. It was essentially extra crap that we had to pay for, at least in my case.
This is probably catering to those people who like that sort of thing (yourself included RejZor because you are so vociferously defending it), but please dont tell us its going to prevent stuff from happening that doesn't usually happen to most users, and admit it is just window dressing, or the spoilers on cars you see people driving around. It's rice.
