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Originally Posted by Groth
A reinforcing plate (ideally) applies an force to the back of the socket equal and opposite to the waterblock mounting force, eliminating the board flexing that normally generates that counter balancing force.
Your set up does nothing to reduce board flex.
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Groth,
Your missing the point. The motherboard doesn't flex as much from mounting pressure as it does from eccentric loads from the weight of the WB or the weights and bends of the plumbing creating an offset load.
Example.....in a typical tower the WB is approx. 3/4" off the face of the MB. Combine this with the bends of the plumbing and the weight of water in the plumbing you have a fairly high twisting force (called moment in the engineering world) that is ripping the WB off the MB. It also creates an imbalance of pressure on the proc core, especially athlons.
By thru bolting the entire assembly to the motherboard tray you've combined the stiffness of the motherboard with the stiffness of the MB to help resist the twisting force (moment), therefore taking stress from the MB.
Do the engineering, it does alot more than 'nothing'.