Some Asus Z690 motherboards get a button to easily unlock PCIe slot
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Stairmand
About ruddy time, extracting a GPU from some boards is a bloody nightmare (the ones with a tab at the bottom)
fry178
yeah, cause we swap cards every day.
lol when i cant use a pencil anymore to remove it, i will stop building rigs, instead of buying this ..
southamptonfc
Nice idea. Removing a GPU is often more tricky than it needs to be.
Agonist
This should have been a standard by 2008 when the GTX 280s, 8800GTX Ultras, HD 3870x2 etc came out.
It can be a real pain releasing that tab.
Ive seen so many boards with that broken off in the used market.
Mineria
Falkentyne
That button is going to be needed for people with large video cards and using backplate active cooling.
It looks like the OLED / M.2 heatsinks on these boards are right next to the X16 slot, which may be one of the reasons for this.
If you look at the Maximus 12 Extreme, there was a x1 PCIE slot between the video card and the CPU area, which made active backplate cooling of cards impossible if you were using a x1 soundcard.
On the Maximus 13 Extreme/Apex boards (the Glacial boards kept the old layout), they moved the x1 slot back towards the second PCIE x16 slot, which meant you could use active backplate cooling without the soundcard blocking it. But the first x16 had to be moved up towards the OLED/m.2 heatesink where there was no space to access the lever.
I actually complained to Asus directly about difficulty accessing the lever without a very thin shim on the Z590 Maximus 13 Extreme before release (when writing my OC guide for ROG forums).
Looks like they listened.
Dimitrios1983
fry178
@Mineria
i dont really see a problem for ppl like here on guru.
cards are being throttled the most by temps. and ignoring open bench case or vacuum cleaner like fans,
water is the way to go.
nice side effect, card is less than 2 slots thick, no prob to reach the lever 😀
but even when using aircoolers, while annoying, but not anywhere close to the point where I'm willing to limit selection (brand etc) or higher cost...