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Jimmy1983

Jimmy1983

Jimmy1983

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Received my e6600 today for my first build, took it out off the box and had a look. Stupidly touched the chip, don't ask why! I know I should'nt have :o

In future I will only handle the chip by the sides, will any damage have occurred or can;t you tell until you power it up?
 
Sipha said:
Should be fine :)
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Thanks. I also touched the back off the stock heatsink, its a grey sticky type substance. :o

Feel a right idiot :(

In future with all off my other parts iam going to only touch the components sides and get a anti-static wristband incase.
 
It'll be fine. I'm clumsy so I do this on a regular basis; haven't damaged a chip yet.

Anti-static straps are overkill if you ask me. Just keep your PSU plugged in and touch the case every now and then :p People who build their rig with an anti-static strap often seem to proceed to clean it out with a hoover - much worse for static!
 
NEVER touch a chip...omg one touch and thats it mate... omfg it'll be slowly dying now of a death of electrostatic shock... ;) You'll be fine mate, have ever had only one video card die a possible static death and i've been feeling up hardware for eons :D
 
Mattus said:
It'll be fine. I'm clumsy so I do this on a regular basis; haven't damaged a chip yet.

Anti-static straps are overkill if you ask me. Just keep your PSU plugged in and touch the case every now and then :p People who build their rig with an anti-static strap often seem to proceed to clean it out with a hoover - much worse for static!
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lol got the contempt for anti statics wearers :p :cool:

I think it is overkill.......Though once my baby sister got hold of one of my DDR2 sticks. I only spotted it when I came round. She had dragged it round the carpet and put it in her mouth :eek:

Damn thing still worked :eek:. I was a bit surprised
 
l33t-krew said:
lol got the contempt for anti statics wearers :p :cool:

I think it is overkill.......Though once my baby sister got hold of one of my DDR2 sticks. I only spotted it when I came round. She had dragged it round the carpet and put it in her mouth :eek:

Damn thing still worked :eek:. I was a bit surprised
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Yeah quite shocking how durable baby sisters can be :D
 
l33t-krew said:
call me n00b but wth is a van de graf generator
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One of these:
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They generate silly amounts of static electricity.
 
i made an old x2 3800 fly and bouce across my desk not to the floor about 40 bent pins made str8 again later it still works even with it at 2.6ghz and 1.6v i was a lot more carefull a year later when installing the opty
 
I've built tons of systems over the years for myself, family, friends etc and handled components in all sorts of ways and never had one die yet. As others have said, you should be fine. Static is the killer and unless you've rubbed your hands or the chip/component on something that creates static then its pretty hard to short them out.
 
lol xeon mod to remove pins off the bottom or mobile socket 478 pin removal to up the fsb to 133 ;) done both and did the 478 with me fingers as I couldn't find me tweezers.

And I stick the hover in their too, try not to touch the actual components but not broken owt yet.
 
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