Nah, a lot of cases these days have standoffs (the technical term you were looking for) or amounting frame for the board built right in.
Q.E.D. My bad.
I’m going to tattoo “Preview is your friend” on my forehead.
This was supposed to preceed the other quote…
“Pull out EVERYTHING save the processor and one stick of RAM and the video card and see if it will boot.”
I was pointing out your use of the same term “boot” to describe two totally different states.