Have any of y'all ever actually accidentally fried your

Don't think you'll get away with your mistakes.
People have friended their Graphics Card before.

>>58141860
fag,
Are you discriminating me? I didn't fry my PC when assembling it, i fried it when reassembling after cleaning.

>>58141860
yes. VRAM wasn't adequately cooled (bad waterblock). overclock => oops, garbage pixels in BIOS. RMA'd just fine

>>58141924
I took my PC apart for cleaning, and since reassembling it, I have about a 50% chance of my GPU properly detecting my displayport monitor on boot

>>58141860

only time I ever damaged a GPU was when I triggered the thermal shutdown for my laptop

I made an openGL program that was extremely hard on the GPU and I guess my fans were old

Never used those anti static bands in 10 years or so building/repairing computers and never had a problem.

static electricity is a meme

>>58141899
Pretty weird to become friends with your graphics card.

When I first built my computer, I tried to put in the motherboard without the standoffs. It's still running fine two years later. Didn't use any anti-static equipment either, all I did was touch the kitchen sink.