Gigabyte posted a video on its X account showing a user removing and installing a GPU on its EZ Latch Plus-equipped Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice motherboard a hundred times, displaying no damage to its PCIe pins. While the video demonstrates the company's EZ Latch Plus mechanism, it also takes a subtle jab at Asus' Q-Release Slim mechanism.
Last January, many users reported that Asus’s Q-Release Slim feature, which lets you remove GPUs just by twisting it by two degrees and then pulling it out, was damaging GPU PCIe connectors. Asus has already released a statement saying that the damage to the GPUs is cosmetic and doesn’t affect function or performance. The damage is seemingly cosmetic. Furthermore, the damage only starts to become noticeable when you remove and reinstall the GPU after several dozen times.
