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advice to avoid static electricity

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hello guys

 

im gonna build my pc soon...anyway, in the room where i will be doing that  the power sockets are not near the table, so i will not be able to do the "psu method", unless i buy an extension cable.

so instead...can i simply touch a piece of metal (maybe every 5 mins or so ) to get rid of static electricity? ive got a side panel of an old case (not the actual case i will be using for this build ); plus i ll be working on a table made of wood and the floor is made of stone.

thanks

have a good evening

 

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lol i never bother anymore. i wear socks on a wooden floor, walk over carpet and shit. i used to touch the heater in the room once before building but i found that to be a waste of time too. my computer parts are in piles, they dont really tend to die from static electricity. maybe if you wear flece and rub baloons over yourself all day but honestly modern parts are really resilient. if you really care then get an antistatic wrist thing for a few dollars at your local computer shop or ebay or something

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Just touch a piece of metal. I would do it more frequently than every 5 minutes, depending on how often you will be handling things like the motherboard. You shouldn't have many problems with stone floor. 

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Touch a doorknob, or a lamp. Anything that will "drain" the static charge from your body. It isn't as much of a concern anymore since the component manufacturer's put protective covers on parts now. If your really worried about it you can run any type of wire (like speaker wire) from a plumbing pipe to your case, and then just touch your case.

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        #1(simple) "Well, I never liked that stupid thing anyway!"

        #2(complex) "Obviously there was a flaw in the material, probably due to the inadvertent introduction of contaminants during the manufacturing process."

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