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Can you touch ram by the heatspreader

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Touching the heat spreader is fine. It shouldn't hurt anything.

 

If you're concerned about static electricity, it's not a big deal with modern components, but you should make sure to ground yourself regularly when building so it doesn't happen.

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Its my first build and just wondering if its alright to touch the ram by the metal heatspreader making sure not to fry the ram

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Touching the heat spreader is fine. It shouldn't hurt anything.

 

If you're concerned about static electricity, it's not a big deal with modern components, but you should make sure to ground yourself regularly when building so it doesn't happen.

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1 minute ago, YoungBlade said:

Touching the heat spreader is fine. It shouldn't hurt anything.

 

If you're concerned about static electricity, it's not a big deal with modern components, but you should make sure to ground yourself regularly when building so it doesn't happen.

Ye, thanks for clarifying 

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Where else were you going to touch it? The pins?

 

 

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A RAM stick is not going to be damaged by being touched wrong. It doesn't matter if you touch the pins or the memory modules themselves. 

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5 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

A RAM stick is not going to be damaged by being touched wrong. It doesn't matter if you touch the pins or the memory modules themselves. 

Yeah. In just puzzled by OP's question because if you don't touch the heat spreader then the only other place to hold it is the pins and usually inexperienced people are more paranoid about the "computer-y electric-y looking bits" like that.

 

When I built my first PC I was worried about only holding my GPU by the shroud because I had watched one build guide video that said if you touched the traces on the bottom of the PCB (this being before backplates) "the universe would cease to exist." I think the guy meant it as a joke but noob that I was I took it seriously.

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