Following last week's report of excessive wear on a graphics card's contact pins, suggested to be the result of using an Asus motherboard's quick-release PCIe slot, Asus has released a statement. In ...
TL;DR: ASUS's new PCIe Slot Q-Release Slim mechanism on Intel 800 and AMD 800 series motherboards is causing damage to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards. The removal of a dedicated release ...
Most people only use a single PCIe slot on the motherboard, namely the topmost x16 slot, to install their graphics card. The other PCIe slots are left vacant on most PCs since any additional ...