Importance of custom gpu cooler backplate screws

[RandomNeedsHelp]

Hi,

are the backplate screws on gpu coolers (in particular Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-N RTX 3070 TUF/DUAL with backplate) necessary for mounting pressure or something similar important for the cooler to work, or can i only srew in maybe half of them? Im asking because i want to put my custom cooled card on the wall and my idea was to use backplate mounting holes the other way and put the card on the wall with screws.

 

Or do you have better ideas to hang the card on the wall? (the end result is supposed to look something like this: )

 

Im not sure if my english was good enough to understand the question, if there is any confusion please ask and thank you for the help.

 

 

[SorryBella]

the backplate doesnt need to go on most cards but are heavily preferable especially for standard horizontal mounting to avoid warping. But in the case of RTX 3090 in particular, the VRAM chips are also on the back of the GPU and thus youll need to atleast passively cool it to avoid it just shutting off from thermal protection. I dont know about wall mount enough but you might be able to get away with putting it directly onto the base board of the wall mount PC. 

[AnonymousGuy]

They're used for mounting pressure of things like the VRM sections and  a little bit the VRAM.  

 

If I were doing something like this I'd probably make pegs with a semi-circle screw head so I can do 1/2 turn to "lock" or "unlock" the head from gripping the pcb.   Screwed into tapping inserts either for wood or plastic.  Thicker or thinner components would just need longer or shorter screws to rest on.

 

 

Also that guy in OP is probably getting *shit* for cooling from those radiators by mounting them like that.  Also bear in mind that whole deal being outside a case is going to be noisy AF.