Harbouring murderous thoughts towards graphics card retension clips

[mikeymikec]

I'm pretty sure I just had one caught in the overly-large heatsink of the graphics card, which makes it eternally locked, if it wasn't for a lot of waggling and twisting to work around the bracket. Would anyone miss it?

<gets out the pliers>

 

[Eureka]

I would like to see a newer design for graphic card mounting. These clips were designed for small PCI boards with a small heatsink or cooler... 10 years ago. Every year GPU makers are competing for the biggest heatsink block on a card. They're just not meant for this kind of load or usage.

I mean, what is this:

 

[JETninja]

Agreed, I ended up breaking it off accidentally on the asrock 77 4 extreme build I just did for my Son. Could not see due to the size of the Video card and it being a black PCB didn't help. No matter, Card works fine without it...

 

[mikeymikec]

Even with those clips I've had to occasionally re-seat graphics cards.

 

[Pohemi]

I've got an AsRock 970 Extreme3 (new as of Nov 2012). Everything assembled with no problems, but the first time I had to pull the vid card out (an XFX DD 6870) it was practically impossible to see the sliding retention clip, much less be able to reach or move it.

*SNAP*

The older type that you simply pulled/bent out to release the slot were bad enough, but locking sliders that you can't reach once the card is installed? WTF?! Eh, whatever. Just glad I didn't damage the card itself.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

My motherboard now doesn't have a retention clip...?