The DIY home-built PC crowd shall be delighted to be taught that GPU upgrades simply grew to become easy. The Gigabyte X670 EZ-Latch Plus motherboard is a brand new screwless and latchless system for straightforward GPU and SSD swaps.
Tom’s {Hardware} observed two new Gigabyte motherboards floor on Twitter, a PCIe EZ-Latch Plus and an M.2 EZ-Latch Plus. Each are constructed with the upcoming Ryzen 7000-series processors with Zen 4 structure in thoughts.
Each the PCIe and M.2 EZ-Latch Plus motherboards lastly cast off these small, annoying screws that all the time handle to drop off the magnetic screwdriver and roll into the pc someplace. As an alternative, each motherboards have their very own distinctive system for simply attaching and eradicating GPUs.
The PCIe system encompasses a bodily button close to the sting of the motherboard and away from these slender DIMM slots. No extra getting fats fingers caught in a motherboard (though I’m positive a few of us will nonetheless discover a manner). A single push of the button releases the GPU. This new button system on the PCIe motherboard additionally opens up more room for producers to pack extra PCIe slots in, particularly subsequent to large and ponderous elements.
Over on the M.2 board, issues are simply as easy. The M.2 encompasses a stress mechanism, permitting you to snap a GPU into place by gently decreasing it onto the motherboard. Rotate the latch to launch the cardboard.
Twitter consumer @momomo_us posted hyperlinks to GIFs of the brand new motherboards in motion. The GIFs present a person’s hand popping playing cards on and off each the PCIe board and the M.2 board.
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PCIe EZ-Latch Plushttps://t.co/K0q8pyG1BB
M.2 EZ-Latch Plushttps://t.co/UzWLJkgFL1*MP4
— 188号 (@momomo_us) August 10, 2022
This represents an enormous high quality of life improve for PC builders and tinkerers and is one thing different motherboard makers ought to implement. There are rumors AMD and Asus have comparable tasks within the works, though nothing official has been launched.
If main producers soar on board, we might lastly kiss these tiny screws goodbye.
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