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I bought a Anti-static strap from amazon. and i'm nervous about frying my whole motherboard and any other component's is their any way to? avoid this.
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There isn't really anything to be worried about, the wrist strap will stop the static but if you want to make sure hold your case a few times whilst your building to keep yourself grounded.
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It's really unlikely for anything to happen. If you're really that paranoid, touch the metal part of your case every minute or so.
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It's pretty hard to damage parts by static, you'd have to do it on purpose and anti static wrist bands which are a waste of money and you can just touch your case or a ground object every now and again.
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Thanks everyone . For helping me and on my past forum post
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Static buildup is less of a possibility when the relative humidity is high (spring-summer). If you don't go out of you way to build up a charge, you won't have any issues.

Static discharge will destroy transistors in integrated circuits, so be particularly careful when you're handling the CPU.
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Basically you've got more chance to damage your computer parts by some other form of discharge, rather then a static one if you get what I mean ;)
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