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so just got my 980 yesterday and i popped it outta the plastic shell to take a look at it cuz im super excited i got it and will be working on my build ina few months. so i handled it in a way i think that was appropriate by gripping it by its cooler and not the pcb will that help prevent static discharge?

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people still worry about static charge??  i literally have never shocked any of my PC hardware from static discharge..

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people still worry about static charge??  i literally have never shocked any of my PC hardware from static discharge..

i have an anxiety disorder im worried about many things. but could i have possibly damaged the card?

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if you are concerned with static, what you can do is touch some piece of grounded metal (a pc case with a plugged in power supply would do the trick) and you're pretty much good to go.

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Yup, grab the cooler, not the PCB.

It's very hard to kill a gpu with static anyways, you need a lot of static to zap a gpu.

good to know i wanna be overkill in making sure i dont discharge any of my parts on accident does evga cover static discharge in their warranty i didnt say anything about it.

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i have an anxiety disorder im worried about many things. but could i have possibly damaged the card?

 

if you grabbed it by the cooler than no. unless you yanked it around. you're fine.

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good to know i wanna be overkill in making sure i dont discharge any of my parts on accident does evga cover static discharge in their warranty i didnt say anything about it.

I don't know, but It's pretty sure that they don't cover that.

If you are really that worried just touch a grounded piece of metal, don't put it on a carpet or stuff that can make static.

The chances of zapping a gpu are very low, you need to really screw it up and have lots of static to do that.

Don't dance in the carpet or rub a balloon in your hair if you're going to handle a GPU/Mobo/CPU after that.

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i treat my 770 like shit whenever i take it outta my pc not gonna lie lol

one time i dropped it by accident from waist level, poor card

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I hold my GPU by wherever, not much to worry about in terms of shocking it with static considering the thing has a backplate and such, and doubt I'll break anything by doing it. (Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming)

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i treat my 770 like shit whenever i take it outta my pc not gonna lie lol

one time i dropped it by accident from waist level, poor card

 

 

O.o

 

i baby my graphics card to some degree. but yeah, i'm not super obsessive.... but still... poor card indeed

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I hold my GPU by wherever, not much to worry about in terms of shocking it with static considering the thing has a backplate and such, and doubt I'll break anything by doing it. (Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming)

i want to install a backplate on mine.

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didnt come in one.

 

i've never heard of a new graphics card that didn't come in an anti static bag.

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i've never heard of a new graphics card that didn't come in an anti static bag.

evga just sent it in a plastic shell i emailed em and they told me yep thats how it comes......was like dafuq? i bought a almost $600 gpu but you cant give me a god damn anti static bag or foam packaging? well fuck you.

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evga just sent it in a plastic shell i emailed em and they told me yep thats how it comes......was like dafuq? i bought a almost $600 gpu but you cant give me a god damn anti static bag or foam packaging? well fuck you.

 

no kidding. dafuq egva....

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yeah egva.....

 

 

.... i blame that on my .... cat... yeah... the cat >.>

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freaking cats.....no but asus the strix 980 had foam and an anti staic bag so did the damn classified by evga.....the fuck!?!?!?

 

dunno. EVGA has a great reputation. i'm honestly shocked that they packaged it in a clam shell

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