Anti static mat
15 hours ago, Akadis said:you know that inside as an example a cpu there are millions of small parts so I think that is waht @rhyseyness was talking about
15 hours ago, Clanscorpia said:INSIDE. Its protected by a PCB, a heatsink, and this black things under the IHS
15 hours ago, Clanscorpia said:30 dollars is quite a bit on a budget. You also work as an engineer. You need stuff like that. When your not moving you dont make much charge, so every 5 minutes is mroe than enpugh
Agreed! I'm talking about 2-5 dollars on a wrist strap.
If you can afford even a budget PC, you can afford the 2-5 dollars to protect it whilst you're building it.
The PCB and heat sink DO NOT protect your components from ESD.
The exposed pins are all connected to the chip via the PCB.
The heat sink is made of metal and making contact with the chip.
The millions/billions of tiny transistors within ICs are the issue (like, 14nm is really really small, lol).
0.000000014m is not a lot of space to dissipate heat from current caused by high voltage ESD.
Resistors/caps/inductors are pretty resistant to ESD.
I'm not disagreeing that touching the case every 5 minutes is enough 99% of the time.
I'm just failing to see why you wouldn't spend another $3 and make 100% certain you're not gonna shock something.
Anyway, we're kinda going in circles now
We shall agree to disagree
12 hours ago, Wheeljack699 said:ok thank you all for the help but i asked because it's going to cost $4000 and i don't want to waste my money lol
If you can afford to drop $4k on a PC, you can afford $10 for a wrist strap and an earthing plug for it
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