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so you got that fancy new graphics card

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a so nice oh but wait you rub your feet

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on the carpet you touch it and it's dead so you've heard of static electricity

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and you know that if you touch someone and zap it this that's bad but how do

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you actually protect delicate fragile electronic components from the danger of

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static electricity layer number one is usually some kind of an anti-static uh

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padded foam usually gray or bubble wrap

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that is usually pink all right so it's going to come inside one of those in all

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likelihood next up is your anti-static bag this usually has some kind of a

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conductive material on the outside of the bag that allows electrostatic to be

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discharged without actually reaching the delicate components inside now a common

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mistake that I see particularly with motherboards is people take that fresh

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motherboard out of the box take it out of the bag put it on top of the bag in

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order to call that an anti-static safe workstation wrong the outside of the bag

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is conductive and not actually good to be used for that so now that it's all

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naked and stuff how do you keep your new expensive graphics card from being

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destroyed first of all don't handle it by the sensitive components on the PCB

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handle it by the edges or by things like heat sinks which are less likely to be

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Zapped into Oblivion number two is ground yourself dissipate the static

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electricity by touching something that is connected to a ground such as a power

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supply that is plugged in but turned off

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another option if you can't remember to do that every time you move or every

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couple minutes is to use an antistatic wrist trap you don't have to keep it on

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your wrist you can instead keep it on your ankle but this will constantly

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ground you out as long as the other end which is usually an alligator clip is

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connected to something that will dissipate the electricity a great example would be something like a

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plugged in power supply some people plug them directly into the wall but make

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sure you plug it into the correct part of the wall or you might have a bit of a

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problem double check the way that the wiring works in your region lineus Tech

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