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Zkuq on 27 May 2025
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JEMC said:

By the way, MSI may have brought an innovation that was long overdue and that will be welcomed by everybody:

MSI shows off new weirdly flat PinSafe Design motherboards at Computex, possibly saving lives
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/msi-shows-off-new-weirdly-flat-pinsafe-design-motherboards-at-computex-possibly-saving-lives/
MSI's first AMD chipset MPOWER motherboard, the B850MPOWER, is also set to be a first in a new design for MSI boards. Instead of the usual prickly solder points on the back of a board, MSI has rolled out a new flat design. It's been dubbed the ‘PinSafe Design’ and is said to help “avoid injury caused by sharp pins during the assembly process.” In other words, MSI has got rid of a bunch of little pricks.

With most cases no longer having sharp edges and now this, maybe we won't have to do a blood offer to the PC building spirits every time we build a machine (I hope that doesn't anger them and punish us with BSODs).

On a Finnish forum, this was cautiously welcomed, although everyone seemed to agree that no one's ever got hurt by this. Hence people considered this more of a marketing trick than something that's actually useful. Obviously I don't have enough data to back up any claims, but my anecdote is that I haven't been hurt by this ever.

Last edited by Zkuq - on 27 May 2025