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You can touch it all over, just make sure you ground yourself by using either a anti-static wrist strap, or touching bare metal before you start poking around.

 

Edit: Don't touch the pins on the processor, you might bend them, but that's about it.

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Oh, you're asking for it man. :D

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I don't think it matters as long as you are grounded (static electricity speaking) and you don't touch something fragile like CPU pins. I usually hold components by the heatsinks, like on motherboards and GPUs.

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Yeah make sure you have anti static strap or something like that. I don't think it really matters where you touch it, although it depends what you're talking about, just use common sense.

 

Personally I hold my motherboard in a spot where there isn't much and I'm pretty much just holding the board, I hold my GPU by the sides and don't touch the PCI connector, obviously with the CPU you want to be extremely careful.....only touch the sides and not the bottom or you could mess it up. 

 

Just don't be careless, and you'll be fine.

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as long as you aren't wearing anything fluffy like a fleece or socks and aren't working on a carpet or something staticky, you can touch components wherever you like.

 

that doesn't sound right.

You can handle components wherever you like.

still not very good.

 

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The ammount of innuendo from "How to touch your parts" is not something the internet could take.

Expect global blackouts should he ever find the thread.

Now with my limited experience (7 builds so far <3), I'm just overly cautious. Being gentle has never broken a part before, I don't think, and it's unlikely to start soon. So I prefer to stick to the sides of motherboards, on backplates and coolers of gpu's, et cetera. Also, it might not be good idea to touch any of the contact surfaces in either CPU or cooler. Something to keep in mind when you're popping the GPU out of the covers.

But that's just me, so manhandle your junk as you want, if ya know what I mean. Just, y' know, as they've said remain grounded.

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Oh yeah, hold CPU by corners.

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Hold them from PCB edges. When mobo is laying inside the case, you can move it by cpu heatsink (if installed) or by chipset heatsinks and I/O ports. Try not to touch bare metal parts on PCB. Heatpipes, heatsinks and any shroud is fine.

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Hold them from PCB edges. When mobo is laying inside the case, you can move it by cpu heatsink (if installed) or by chipset heatsinks and I/O ports. Try not to touch bare metal parts on PCB. Heatpipes, heatsinks and any shroud is fine.

Eh, I held it by chip set heatsink, it was attached by spring screw's, so the heatsink came off/moved

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Eh, I held it by chip set heatsink, it was attached by spring screw's, so the heatsink came off/moved

 

:D I have ripped my previous mobo off the screws (which were stuck) and the thing is still working fine. One thing Abit did well.

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lol reminds me of the AMD I bought 2nd hand.

There was so much paste, and the damn magmachamber had been _kinda_  tortured, the cooler wouldn't come off of it. Just would not come off.

In the end I went fuck it mode, and sure enough the CPU came off still attached to the cooler... Yeah, retention arm be damned.

Well, after some work to remove the old (Not so gentle, I'll admit) and de-attach the CPU from the cooler... Swapped the cooler, applied my own paste and voila the CPU started humming happily (Technicaly the fan is the one making the noise but... y' know). Moral of the story? They aren't that fragile. Untill they are, and when that happens... you'll be happy you were careful. :P I'd never do something like that for anything that actually wasn't mine and I knew was expendable. :)

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CPU: Don't touch the top or the bottom. Always hold it by the edges

 

CPU cooler: don't touch the metal plate that makes contact with the CPU.

 

Mobo: Don't touch the CPU socket or nudge the capacitors (the small cylindrical things coming out of it). Try to always hold it by the edges. If you have the CPU and it's heatsink installed, lift the motherboard by the cooler.

 

RAM: If the PCB is exposed, hold it by the edges and don't touch the PCB. If it's covered by a heat spreader, try to hold it by the edges; if you can't, don't apply pressure to it. Also, don't touch the metal pins at the bottom.

 

HDD storage: don't shake it and always put it down carefully.

 

SSD storage: Don't bite it.

 

Expansion cards (graphics card): don't touch the metal pins.

 

PSU: Make sure the power cord from the wall is removed before messing with any connectors.

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Make sure you're eating a bag of popcorn as you do it.

 

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Seriously tho, stick to the edges of hardware where there is no circuitry. You're less likely to cause a static short or get grease on it that will cause a short.

 

It's not surgery tho it is a good idea to wash and dry your hands thoroughly before assembling the machine. Peoples hands tend to be extremely greasy.

 

After that just make sure you're grounded to avoid a static short.

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CPU: Don't touch the top or the bottom. Always hold it by the edges

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CPU cooler: don't touch the metal plate that makes contact with the CPU.

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Mobo: Don't touch the CPU socket or nudge the capacitors (the small cylindrical things coming out of it). Try to always hold it by the edges. If you have the CPU and it's heatsink installed, lift the motherboard by the cooler.

True

RAM: If the PCB is exposed, hold it by the edges and don't touch the PCB. If it's covered by a heat spreader, try to hold it by the edges; if you can't, don't apply pressure to it. Also, don't touch the metal pins at the bottom.

True

HDD storage: don't shake it and always put it down carefully.

True

SSD storage: Don't bite it.

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Expansion cards (graphics card): don't touch the metal pins.

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PSU: Make sure the power cord from the wall is removed before messing with any connectors.

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I usually ground myself with metal like the case and try to touch stuff with corners to decrease risk of damaging. Do NOT touch the pins on your CPU!

 

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