Every now and again you get a board where the tab will not give or there is very little room to fit your hand in to push the tab. I have carefully used screw drivers before just to flip the tab. Thanks to ASUS for adding this feature, it makes for changing cards so much easier.
Chakramer
Cost, most people don’t take out their GPU very often
Personally I have always just kept a pair of chopsticks in my tools drawer to release the clamp
Herdnerfer
Damn that’s clever AF
crasagam
About time! But there goes my MB repair racket for people who used large flat-head screwdrivers /s
iAmGats
What happens if it breaks?
Ferro_Giconi
Cost vs. benefit. If I’m opening the computer, I am extremely likely to already have a stick shaped tool in my hand to push the lever down if it is difficult to access.
Inevitable_Turn994
as the GC gets bigger its would be difficult to unlock the card by finger under it so there is a thingy to ease it and get the card off the board
Manzarek7
I use a chop stick lol
Help-Royal
I just broke the latch, unintentionally
coonissimo
I don’t even understand why people use chopsticks or something else. Done it all my life with the same fingers used to type this comment and I’m okay.
Nice thing to have, but I’ll be confused first and will spend more time looking how to open it in a manual lol.
Frostsorrow
Probably the same reason front I/O connectors only just started having those combo plug thingys. Unless lots of people like those tiny wires and impossible to read silk screened labels.
SoDrunkRightNow2
I had a mobo with some form of this function 20 years ago.
I think I used it zero times.
FormulaLiftr
I just popped the latch off entirely and don’t use it. There’s no reason for my gpu to suddenly pop out of the slot and even using a chop stick or something else is a real pain in the ass with the size of my GPU and NH D15 cooler.
Just asking to slip off and potentially damage the board.
I was so lucky mine had this, I was messing around with a toothpick before I tried seeing what that button does 🤣
Koronenko
I hate it when I can’t reach the thing for my GPU because my cooler is blocking it. This is a cool feature.
Drone314
That’s the motherboard-quick-disconnect. It’s designed to release the MB from the GPU…..So about the time GPUs became bigger then everything else in the case
darth_terryble
This is the peak of computer building
Deep-Procrastinor
One more thing for Asus to refuse warranty on 🤔
RenownedDumbass
I have this but I feel like it doesn’t work well
Killavillain
Years ago that would be cool on a RAM slots.
Bending was real if you messed even a bit more than a little…
Kitchen_Part_882
And here I am, being thankful for integrated IO shields on modern motherboards…
Only took what? 30 years of the ATX standard being a thing?
I have long fingers and don’t swap out GPUs often enough (once every three years, maybe) for a long lever to be a selling point.
DtotheOUG
(please cut your nails)
Dizman7
Nice!
Mine has shitty thin metal slightly embedded on top of the push down tab to supposedly reinforce. But it’s just made the metal part start to come off with each push down revealing a very sharp metal edge and it’s always required quite a bit of force to push down and now it’s near impossible to push down with a finger without hurting yourself! I either have to carefully try and use a flathead to push it down (and not slip and dmg the mobo) or just not use the tab to lock the card in (which is usually what I do now since that tab is such a bitch).
TL:DR my mobo tab is a nightmare I would love this new release method!
HorzaDonwraith
These are computer engineers working here not actual *engineers*
liaminwales
It has been a thing in the OEM world, my old MacPro’s from 2010 do it.
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Every now and again you get a board where the tab will not give or there is very little room to fit your hand in to push the tab. I have carefully used screw drivers before just to flip the tab. Thanks to ASUS for adding this feature, it makes for changing cards so much easier.
Cost, most people don’t take out their GPU very often
Personally I have always just kept a pair of chopsticks in my tools drawer to release the clamp
Damn that’s clever AF
About time! But there goes my MB repair racket for people who used large flat-head screwdrivers /s
What happens if it breaks?
Cost vs. benefit. If I’m opening the computer, I am extremely likely to already have a stick shaped tool in my hand to push the lever down if it is difficult to access.
as the GC gets bigger its would be difficult to unlock the card by finger under it so there is a thingy to ease it and get the card off the board
I use a chop stick lol
I just broke the latch, unintentionally
I don’t even understand why people use chopsticks or something else. Done it all my life with the same fingers used to type this comment and I’m okay.
Nice thing to have, but I’ll be confused first and will spend more time looking how to open it in a manual lol.
Probably the same reason front I/O connectors only just started having those combo plug thingys. Unless lots of people like those tiny wires and impossible to read silk screened labels.
I had a mobo with some form of this function 20 years ago.
I think I used it zero times.
I just popped the latch off entirely and don’t use it. There’s no reason for my gpu to suddenly pop out of the slot and even using a chop stick or something else is a real pain in the ass with the size of my GPU and NH D15 cooler.
Just asking to slip off and potentially damage the board.
https://preview.redd.it/w8ogm1hvbu0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a905444544288a3571b00794b02e195992a11931
I was so lucky mine had this, I was messing around with a toothpick before I tried seeing what that button does 🤣
I hate it when I can’t reach the thing for my GPU because my cooler is blocking it. This is a cool feature.
That’s the motherboard-quick-disconnect. It’s designed to release the MB from the GPU…..So about the time GPUs became bigger then everything else in the case
This is the peak of computer building
One more thing for Asus to refuse warranty on 🤔
I have this but I feel like it doesn’t work well
Years ago that would be cool on a RAM slots.
Bending was real if you messed even a bit more than a little…
And here I am, being thankful for integrated IO shields on modern motherboards…
Only took what? 30 years of the ATX standard being a thing?
I have long fingers and don’t swap out GPUs often enough (once every three years, maybe) for a long lever to be a selling point.
(please cut your nails)
Nice!
Mine has shitty thin metal slightly embedded on top of the push down tab to supposedly reinforce. But it’s just made the metal part start to come off with each push down revealing a very sharp metal edge and it’s always required quite a bit of force to push down and now it’s near impossible to push down with a finger without hurting yourself! I either have to carefully try and use a flathead to push it down (and not slip and dmg the mobo) or just not use the tab to lock the card in (which is usually what I do now since that tab is such a bitch).
TL:DR my mobo tab is a nightmare I would love this new release method!
These are computer engineers working here not actual *engineers*
It has been a thing in the OEM world, my old MacPro’s from 2010 do it.