If I touch my CPU without grounding myself, and I damage it with

Static electricity killing computer parts is a meme.

>>56054745
It will actually supercharge it up to 6Ghz

>>56054754
What's that star? Are you a hacker?

Thanks for the input guys. Anyone actually know what they're talking about?

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>>56054745

It will likely not manifest any symptoms in the short term. Over time, you might get random failures (blue screens, corruption when writing to disk, etc etc.) that you could assign to heat or overclocking; whatever.

Do you want to take the risk?


http://www.sourceresearch.com/newsletter/ESD.cfm?emART

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>>56054745
>>56054831

4chan thinks my post is spam. link to follow

>>56054787

>>56054754
>⭐

>>56054745
Dont touch the contact pads on the bottom, and dont build while on low density or fluffy carpet, especially if theres low humidity.

If you absolutely must build in a dry environment or where theres thick/fluffy carpet, install the PSU first and plug it into the wall, as it will ground the entire case and give you a convenient spot to dump static electricity without damaging anything.

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>>56054917

fuck you 4chan

>>56054745
Just think about it, if a large enough current goes through a resistor it burns up. Same goes with a large voltage build up on your body. A large enough current can be induced to destroy some of micro sized resistors

>>56054753
Well, it is now. Back in the old, old MOS, NMOS, CMOS days, it was very much not a meme - if you ever work on anything vintage you definitely 100% need those wrist straps. >>56054831 is showing one of those ancient 80s MOS processes.

But modern SOI processes, even the cheap ones, are hundreds of times more resilient, so you needn't be anywhere near as paranoid.

For any modern hardware, touch the case so there isn't a differential there, don't touch the contact pads (you have more to worry about from skin oils than static), and you're good. You're probably good anyway. If it's dead when installed, just RMA it to swap it for another one.

yes.

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>>56057933
Yup. I cost my employer heaps when I didn't realise this was an issue. I'd pull MOS planar boards out and when I put them back they didn't work. Then the replacement didn't work.