800 MHz FSB "CPU mounting holes" not understood

In describing its 800 MHz boards, SuperMicro warns us that:

Chassis must have CPU mounting holes required for
800MHz FSB CPUs with this serverboard.

I'm trying to figure out what this means to me. I've got a 8-year-old tower
PC with enough room to locate the board vertically, but I don't recall any
mounting holes near the CPU. Does this mean I'm out of luck? Or does this
warning only apply to rack-mounted chasses?

It's hard, if not impossible, to find towers that claim to support these
mounting holes. I need my PC hardware to match what I'm doing at work, so
there's a reason for having this in a home system.

Thanks for any help,

On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 03:47:49 +0000 (UTC), John <> wrote:

>In describing its 800 MHz boards, SuperMicro warns us that:
>
> Chassis must have CPU mounting holes required for
> 800MHz FSB CPUs with this serverboard.
>
>I'm trying to figure out what this means to me. I've got a 8-year-old tower
>PC with enough room to locate the board vertically, but I don't recall any
>mounting holes near the CPU. Does this mean I'm out of luck? Or does this
>warning only apply to rack-mounted chasses?
>
>It's hard, if not impossible, to find towers that claim to support these
>mounting holes. I need my PC hardware to match what I'm doing at work, so
>there's a reason for having this in a home system.
>
>Thanks for any help,

It means the cooling solution (aka heat sink) bolts through the motherboard
and CEK spring into threaded hard points in the chassis...any chassis.

An 8 year old chassis isn't going to have those mounting points...