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Originally Posted by ****** That's not true. When you buy a premade computer at a store it comes with the stock Intel cooler which is not very good, as a result it is not very big and does not need much support, so does not need an extra backplate. Bigger custom coolers almost always come with backplates simply because they are so big - and they are that big regardless of which CPU make you install them on. You COULD try do it without the backplate, but they tend to pull on the motherboard and can deform or break them (or if you're lucky just fall out of their mountings because of the pressure on the push-pins).

Then I'm going to kick the crap out of my IT teacher for lying to me :P Or.. Just saying the wrong thing