News Asus' Q-Release Slim feature is reportedly damaging some GPU PCIe connectors

[HardwiredWireless]

Users have reported that Asus' Q-Release Slim mechanism is scraping off their GPU's PCIe connectors.

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This is a non-issue The cards are not meant to be taken in and out multiple times, generally it's put into the board and it's left there until it's replaced. There's absolutely nothing wrong with their system.

 

[jlake3]

Cosmetic damage resulting from repeatedly removing a component that's meant to sit there till it needs to be upgraded.

Who cares? And why do they care?

Tinkerers/enthusiasts, YouTubers, tech journalists.

The average user who installs a card and doesn't touch it for 2-5 years won't have an issue, but they're also not the audience that a quick-release system like this really appeals to. The people who seek out these boards specifically because of this feature are the people most likely to do an unusually high number of component swaps.

 

[thekingofALLmonkz]

Whatever happened to prototype testing and quality control???

 

[helper800]

You are wrong. Period. This is very bad. Damaged card= bad. Get it?

Very analytical retort. Have you considered politics as a career?

 

[helper800]

This is a non-issue The cards are not meant to be taken in and out multiple times, generally it's put into the board and it's left there until it's replaced. There's absolutely nothing wrong with their system.

I would not go that far. If there is some way ASUS could make it better, that would be good for them and ease anxieties created by articles such as this.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

Tinkerers/enthusiasts, YouTubers, tech journalists.

The average user who installs a card and doesn't touch it for 2-5 years won't have an issue, but they're also not the audience that a quick-release system like this really appeals to. The people who seek out these boards specifically because of this feature are the people most likely to do an unusually high number of component swaps.

And swaps are fine. Take out one and drop in another. Each card goes in and out one time and then it's replaced. Swapping the same card in and out 60 times or more is boring and totally irrelevant to the point that it will literally never be done by anyone who uses their computer.
How many times can you connect and disconnect a molex? Everything will fail after a certain number of repetitions, everything, even the power switch that starts the computer. That doesn't mean it's faulty.

 

[jlake3]

And swaps are fine. Take out one and drop in another. Each card goes in and out one time and then it's replaced. Swapping the same card in and out 60 times or more is boring and totally irrelevant to the point that it will literally never be done by anyone who uses their computer.
How many times can you connect and disconnect a molex? Everything will fail after a certain number of repetitions, everything, even the power switch that starts the computer. That doesn't mean it's faulty.

Yeah, that's not how tinkering and benchmarking works. Cards go back in for fresh data when drivers get updated, when Windows gets major updates, when game engines get major updates, when new games come out... maybe back in again when you get to the end of data collection and something looks anomalous. Maybe something doesn't work, you take your primary card out and put in a backup GPU, determine the problem wasn't the GPU and switch back to the good card. Maybe you're filming build guides, and you tear down the PC and you reuse the parts rather than buy a new card for each video. Each card is not going in only one time ever and then being replaced.

And everything will fail after enough repetitions, but if the number of repetitions is not suited for the use case, people will generally consider that a faulty design, and this feature feels specifically targeted at people who have a need to do significantly more swapping than the average user.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

Yeah, that's not how tinkering and benchmarking works. Cards go back in for fresh data when drivers get updated, when Windows gets major updates, when game engines get major updates, when new games come out... maybe back in again when you get to the end of data collection and something looks anomalous. Maybe something doesn't work, you take your primary card out and put in a backup GPU, determine the problem wasn't the GPU and switch back to the good card. Maybe you're filming build guides, and you tear down the PC and you reuse the parts rather than buy a new card for each video. Each card is not going in only one time ever and then being replaced.

And everything will fail after enough repetitions, but if the number of repetitions is not suited for the use case, people will generally consider that a faulty design, and this feature feels specifically targeted at people who have a need to do significantly more swapping than the average user.

If it takes you 60+ tries to get the data you need, you are in the wrong business. These are made for personal computers they are not sold as test beds. They are fine for use in PCs the card will fail before the slot.