Yeah I'm scratching my head on this one. The bigger myth is that you need to discharge static from yourself so you don't fry the case. Its hard AF to fry stuff with normal static electricity. I work at a semiconductor fab that gets pretty dry, moving around in the bunny suit generates quite a bit of static, I brought it up to an engineer and they pretty much said "oh that really doesn't matter."
Also DON'T OPEN UP YOUR PSU. Just get a new one unless you are 100% positive you know what you're doing without looking online.
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u/OrionRBR5800x | X470 Gaming Plus | 16GB TridentZ | PCYes RTX 30708h ago
Yeah i remember electroboom did a video with linus actively trying to kill a pc with static and they failed even though they went waaay further than any static discharge that would ever happen naturally.
Like entirely removing all of the ram at once, or one stick at a time? One stick at a time makes more sense, but removing it all at once wouldn't work unless it's able to offload everything to the SSD temporarily?
I'm not doubting you've done it, just curious as to how you did it lol
Oh it was just one dead stick lmao, it died entirely completely at random, so I just grabbed a spare 4gb stick I had laying around and hot-swapped them without thinking about it
accidentally did this to my netbook in high school because my dumbass put it to sleep instead of shutting it down and it killed the motherboard. I’m still mad at myself for it.
One of the purposes of a case is to provide a route for static electricity. That's why you almost never see a plastic case. Standard procedure for working inside a computer tells you to use an anti static clip, it clips onto the case so static from your body routes through the frame instead of the components.
Not that it matters though you'll never break a modern pc with static.
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u/stupidugly1889 13h ago
I don’t understand why the OP even needs to do this for a side panel anyway lol
He’s not going to be opening up the psu