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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
How do you know you havent damaged anything? just cuz it doesnt go puff in flames or up in smoke does not mean it isnt damaged.This is a common misconception and im surprised I keep hearing this people seem to expect visable damage or something and thats just not how it works.A cpu for example leaves amd/intel perfect its been tested time and time again and produced in anti static enviroments then it reaches the customer who doesnt handle it carefully but the machine works and seems fine.How does that customer know its working as well as it did when it left base??? they dont simple as also when the cpu eventually dies how do they know it would have died then if it had been looked after properly? again they dont static can cause damage you never know you have caused end of story anyone who disagrees is simply wrong  |
Well given the fact that almost every component I have ever owned asside from some IBM hard drives (60GXPs thats right the famous faulty ones) and an old seagate drive I havent had a component fail on me, they are all still running in various incarnations right now.
So considdering the oldest of these machines is an 8 year old IBM Cyrix MII 266 machine with a processor not known for its amazing build quality or longevity is one of those machines still running I'd say that is a pretty good testemony to my previous statement that I have never damaged a component by not observing antistatic precautions.