Furthermore I believe the weight of the 'bigger ' graphic cards such as Nvidia 1060, 1070,1080 and AMD equivalent causes this happen more quickly than say a smaller Graphic cards. I believe this is one main reasons they upgraded to 'safeslot' pcie on their strix & rampage series of mobos. Anyone who has ROG mobo not necessarily even exact same board so long the manufacturing method to attach was same plz msg me as Asus is trying claim physical dmg. I have a Asus Rog Maximus viii hero alpha ,I suspect that part reason pcie slots where failing is same reason mine just came off with board & Because they were not attached to the board properly I want to say this because I think a lot of people who were having pcie slots could be related to the same issue. You are not an idiot I believe this is a known problem with all their PCIe slots they manufactured prior to using 'safeslot' pcie slots. Of course cards were not massive heat sink sagging monsters back then like they are now, and most cases were horizontal on the desk unlike today where they are mostly vertical.

Shoot I built lots of systems in the old days when ISA slots and the first PCI slots never had any clips. Thoughts? Would a new clip be able to be snapped in there if I got the little piece of the old one out? Does it really matter that much? I hate broken stuff so my OCD is going bug me on this until I replace this MB at some point in the future, maybe when the next -E MB's come out. Just worried if I put a larger card in there in the future if its going to stay in there snug or my current one for that matter, though it seems to be fine atm. Anyway not sure its worth thing to RAM the board for that even if they would.

Kind of annoying I released it and pulled the card out but seems to have somehow still hung on the end and ended up making it pretty difficult to get to release. I have Fury X cards right now so they are not that long and heavy like my old Asus R290X cards were so it still is rather snug in the slot with the 2 case slot screws in.

The PCIe clip on the end of my slot 1 PCIe slot snapped off at the little arm the clips it in to the end of the slot. First time this has happened to me on modern motherboard.

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