Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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I don’t think that was supposed to be your takeaway from that video
There’s playing it a little loose with ESD (not using a mat / resistive grounding strap), then there’s completely throwing caution to the wind (working on a carpet without any sort of ground nearby)
Glad you weren't wearing your wooliest socks though
Many feel very strongly about this indeed. Next upgrade I'm going to wear the wooliest socks, a polyester shirt, have my nephew rub my head with a balloon the whole time, and post myself shuffling on the shag carpeted floor touching a video card with 28% room humidity in the dead of winter.
It’s where you happen to touch that matters. Less of big deal touching components’ ground pins or handling the GPU by its heatsink/shroud, but if you discharge into one of the PCIe connector’s main data lines your GPU is not going to be too happy about it. Same is true of many of the pads underneath the CPU but, again, it really depends what you happen to be touching when you zap it.
"That matters" is what you need to quantify with sources for me to pay that foreboding any attention. I don't care about minuscule theoretical risks that only a mass production manufacturer need worry about. It's not a risk that would leave me financial devastated let's put it like that, not that it'll happen, and I simply don't give a singular solitary HOOT at all after 40 years doing this with no consequences.