How to work with components inside the case?

[4klips]

I want to ask how to touch the components inside my case during PC building. Or when I buy used products like motherboard or GPU (without their boxes) how to touch them. I came to know that casually touching them can brick them due to static electricity. I don't have money for antistatic mat or wrist band.

[Princess Luna]

You can use a surgery glove those avoid static electricity completely I rather use those over wrist band to be honest, but the odds are minimal that you'll do anything harmful to your components use a wood table to build it on and avoid carpets, just never leave the components on other metal surfaces. 

[GenericPNP]

5 minutes ago, 4klips said:

I want to ask how to touch the components inside my case during PC building. Or when I buy used products like motherboard or GPU (without their boxes) how to touch them. I came to know that casually touching them can brick them due to static electricity. I don't have money for antistatic mat or wrist band.

Ok well first you are probably going to need an anti-static wristband or find something to ground yourself so you don't shock the components 

[xDylanio]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

You can use a surgery glove those avoid static electricity completely I rather use those over wrist band to be honest, but the odds are minimal that you'll anything harmful to your components use a wood table to build it on and avoid carpets, just never leave the components on other metal surfaces. 

I built my pc on a carpet, I used zero protection. I basically sowed my gpu to my mobo. Seems alright to me

[RevoltTrain]

4 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

I built my pc on a carpet, I used zero protection. I basically sowed my gpu to my mobo. Seems alright to me

I did the same after building about 50 PCs this way I've never had a dead part

[Princess Luna]

11 minutes ago, xDylanio said:

I built my pc on a carpet, I used zero protection. I basically sowed my gpu to my mobo. Seems alright to me

Yeah but if he wants to be 100% safe... this whole static killing stuff overreacted alright.

[4klips]

8 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yeah but if he wants to be 100% safe... this whole static killing stuff overreacted alright.

Actually I am confused. I have to keep all the stuffs on a wooden table during building and my feet touching the grounds not the carpet. But how can I ground myself? I am a noob in PC building.

[Princess Luna]

7 minutes ago, 4klips said:

Actually I am confused. I have to keep all the stuffs on a wooden table during building and my feet touching the grounds not the carpet. But how can I ground myself? I am a noob in PC building.

You really don't have to worry that hard, just be gentle with it and do the step by step from the guide:

And you will be fine.

[4klips]

Thanks to all for suggesting.

[Quaker]

42 minutes ago, 4klips said:

I want to ask how to touch the components inside my case during PC building.

The simplest thing is to do is to touch something metal that's grounded every now and then if you think you may actually build up any static.

One simple way to do that is to plug the power cable into the power supply and then touch the case of the power supply. (Provided that the 3-prong plug on the power cable is plugged into a properly connected 3-prong outlet.) The power supply does not have to be "ON" or even connected to anything to be grounded.