New reports suggest that Asus' newly launched Q-Release Slim feature can damage your GPU's PCIe connector. As HXL and Andreas Schilling from HardwareLuxx shared, frequently unseating your GPU using this ejection mechanism can scrape off the sides of the connector. While there haven't been any reports of broken PCIe gold fingers, insight from Uniko's Hardware suggests a design flaw in Asus' implementation. This news is particularly alarming as it comes hot on the heels of the $2,000 RTX 5090.