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Zkuq said:

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.â€Â In other words, MSI has got rid of a bunch of little pricks.

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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.

I have no problems to admit that I'm a bit clumsy and have stabbed and sometimes even scratched one firnger or two on those things.

Pemalite said:

Zkuq said:

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.

Anecdotally over the past decade or more I have never responded to an "incident" involving an injury from a motherboard. 
No safety reports from the fire service either.

Woah! Careful there. My sarcasm detector almost exploded. A warning would be welcome next time.