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    The deadly non-integrated I/O shield (Image credit: Windows Central)

     

    Have you built yourself a shiny new gaming PC in recent times? Did you shed actual blood while trying to install your motherboard? If the answer is no, you probably got lucky or bought one of the best motherboards with an integrated I/O shield. I wish I had.

     

    I finished recently reassembling my desktop gaming PC to put my new ASRock-flavored Intel Arc A770 to work and nearly severed the top of my finger clean off. Trying to install the I/O shield into the case, my finger slipped ever-so-slightly, and then I felt it. Like a hot knife through butter, the sharp edge of the I/O shield sunk cleanly into my finger.

     

    I've never seen so much blood come from my finger in my entire life.

    Cheap metal, dangerous to use

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    If the motherboard you want to buy looks like this, walk away. Your fingers will thank you.  (Image credit: Windows Central)

     

    I get it. Businesses will always cut every corner imaginable to maximize their profits. But it also shouldn't come at the expense of the customer's well-being. And this isn't a new phenomenon. It doesn't take much time searching places like Reddit to find scores of injured PC builders.

     

    I won't post pictures of my bloodied digit, but it wasn't good. It hurt. Bad. Overall, it took about two days to finally stop bleeding because I kept re-opening it every time I changed the dressing, and fortunately, it hasn't left a scar or anything.

     

    But why is this even a thing? When you compare the quality of an integrated I/O shield with the garbage we get when it's not, why is this still happening in 2023? The metal used in these things is of poorer quality than cans of processed food. It's flimsy, it's nasty, and it's sharp as hell. Why?!

     

    It also makes choosing a motherboard for your PC even more important. Beyond the specs, design, and expansion slots, you need to ensure you're getting one with an integrated I/O shield. Please don't make my mistake.

    An easy fix

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    Every motherboard needs to be shipped like this.  (Image credit: Future)

     

    There's an easy fix here; just stop shipping these things. There is absolutely no benefit to anyone in not having an integrated I/O shield. All it causes is pain and misery.

     

    Motherboards are hardly cheap items, but if it meant adding $5 to the price of each of them to do away with these weapons of mass finger destruction, I don't think a single PC builder in the world would mind.

     

    Integrated I/O shields look far superior, for one, but they also don't take big lumps out of your flesh. It's time to send these sheets of razor-sharp metal to the dumpster once and for all.

     

     

    A plea to PC motherboard makers: Stop making us BLEED!


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    Sounds like the writer needs a tube of something I used to keep in my work bag for just such emergencies... superglue!

     

    Seriously, while I've never cut myself on one of those, I've shredded my fingers more than once pushing through those 'snap-off', part-punched expansion slot covers on cheaper cases. It's not nice when your finger gets wedged in there because both sides have been lacerated and if you pull out, it just cuts deeper 😲

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    Mutton.. snap-off part punched expansion slot.. try using a screwdriver so the slot is at an angle and then just move back and forth till it breaks..

    had plenty of cheap cases... and i do mean plenty..

    bad temper / short fuse + pc pi**ing me off.. why wont you do what i want, all i did is update windows.. crap need to replace case.. 3 cases in 1 year..

    take my current case.. no sides / no front.. the front usb socket it literally hanging by a wire.. lol.. well sitting on top of the slot you'd put a dvd drive..

    power button still on the front of the case but next to the pc.. on a box.. still using it to turn it on ..

    what you call plenty of AIR FLOW.

    you know the situation.. you download a game / app. you install it.. freeware or paid.. "whistles"

    and then you spend the next 30min-3hr trying to get it to work..

    when it says XP or win7 compatible.. and your using that os..

    could be something simple like turning off the gameux.dll  on win7..

    could be graphics related..

    could be some hidden setting..

    could be a missing file.. something which should be installed when you installed the os / directx / graphics.

    then you end up doing a impression of the hulk..

    cause you really want to use / play etc... and it just wont ...

     

     

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