It’s the nature of technology that new and wonderful innovations keep happening every day. When it comes to PC gaming especially, the next generation always feels like it's right around the corner. We’re already gearing up for the next lot of powerful graphics cards, and CPUs but it doesn’t stop there.
PC gaming parts are continuing to get smaller and smaller, and even widely portable with the upcoming Steam Deck release. Internals are increasingly streamlined and elegant, like the new 16-pin PCIe 5.0 power connector as human ingenuity continues to push PC gaming to its very pinnacle. And this one person stuck a plastic fork to their motherboard.
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There’s little more satisfying in life than a good makeshift solution, especially to what could be a very technical problem. ThinkComputers has posted one such wonderful solution to Twitter, where a red plastic fork has been used to hold down an SSD.
Sometimes you just need to improvise… pic.twitter.com/mQps9SS2QqFebruary 21, 2022
From the image it looks as though this board is lacking a 2242 screw point for the M.2 slot housing this computer’s SSD, and thus needed something else to hold it in place. This resourceful human used the 2280 screw point further away, attaching a plastic fork which has the length required to hold down that far off drive. The resulting picture is wonderful, featuring a serious looking black and white motherboard with a bright red and incredibly plastic looking 3-pronged fork
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