As long as you touch some metal before touching the parts to ground yourself, you'll be fine. I've built multiple sysem that way and never fried a single part due to static electricity.
fcma172 said: As long as you touch some metal before touching the parts to ground yourself, you'll be fine. I've built multiple sysem that way and never fried a single part due to static electricity.
Still, she's wearing what looks like a fleecy hoodie. That's a static generator.
It may not need them. If it goes to that case, it looks like it's designed to be an all-in-one board and box, like one of those Apple Minis.
Decent onboard video (Yes, I know that's an oxymoron) and enough USB ports can give you a system that's tiny, compact, power-thrifty, yet still capable of expansion and playing older/less graphically intensive games, and for a relatively low price. The new RAM and OS probably cost more than the system itself did.
The chance you're going to kill a part at any one time is miniscule as long as you're not picking it up by the contacts every time. Pros need to ground themselves because they're doing it all the time. If you're building your dream gaming system, it's not that big of a deal.
Dr_Fine_Rolo said: The chance you're going to kill a part at any one time is miniscule as long as you're not picking it up by the contacts every time. Pros need to ground themselves because they're doing it all the time. If you're building your dream gaming system, it's not that big of a deal.
