It looks like Asus redesigned the scratchy PCIe slots on its motherboards

">a more straightforward option, an extended lever and button that essentially moves the hard-to-reach retention clip to a far more accessible spot on the motherboard. PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray, who’s probably built more PCs than he’s had hot meals at this point, prefers this one. After years of being careful with the sometimes-finicky process of installing and removing GPUs, it feels unnatural to simply grab and yank one out without some secondary protection.

Once again, I’ll point out that the scratching issues on Q-Release Slim motherboards have only been noticed by professional graphics cards testers and reviewers, who plug in and remove cards way more frequently than most at-home desktop PC builders. And even among that small batch of reports, damage to the GPU connections has been entirely cosmetic with no functional issues.

But if I were spending two grand (or more) on a new graphics card and another several hundred dollars on a top-of-the-line motherboard to go along with it, I wouldn’t want the latter to scratch up the former. Asus seems to have acknowledged this, if only fleetingly with some official statements. But yeah, it’s probably worth a little more R&D if they want to keep this feature alive for future motherboard designs.

The adjusted slots are only on pre-order pages so far, so we’ll have to wait for reviews to see if the new Q-Release Slim mechanism is improved.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2637622/it-looks-like-asus-redesigned-the-scratchy-pcie-slots-on-its-motherboards.html

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