Gadgetory

static electricity it's one of those things that I've never really had too much concern for though whenever I seem to be handling paths or building a computer there's always something in the comments session that just goes off and goes oh man you have to wear an anti-static wrist wrap when you're doing that where's Ranger static bill is that man you're gonna completely destroy those parts and so since I've got this hundred dollar PC in the back here and I've already been running a few tests on it I thought hey why not just charge myself up and then touch the pots and then see if it still turns on so let's do a couple of tests welcome back to tokyo city ladies and gentlemen this is Brad coming back to you guys there with a video on static electricity and how much of it is a bad thing and so before doing this video I did watch another video from a channel called do-it-yourself trying and now the video was very entertaining and it was very funny and one thing that a did show is that static electricity can damage parts though I just think the conditions were not even remotely similar to a real-world environment and so today I'm going to try some real-world conditions touch these parts and see if the computers well the computer still boots up so first up here we have the Seagate hard drive so I'm just going to quickly charge myself put it in the computer see if it boots up so here's test one and it looks like it's a pass for the hard disk drive so charging ourselves up on the carpet and then touching the hard drive and then stalling it to a ungrounded computer still results in this computer booting up into Windows let's move on now to part two here's test number two the memory and the computer is still loading so it's like test number two is passed as well so now we'll try the graphics card so here's test number three this is the graphics card and it's booting up everything's booting up fine so let's get on to the final test now where I'm going to charge myself up as best as I can and then touch the motherboard which is essentially connected to everything and then we'll try and see if it turns on okay so here is the final test I just thought I'd show you guys without any breaks or anything like that so looks like it might have froze this time around I might have froze on boot let's try and restart it okay looks like it's booting this time so let's uh let's move on to a conclusion this is booting and it looks like it yeah it's booting into Windows absolutely fine so for tests and for passes let's move on to conclusion now so in conclusion besides working up a sweat we didn't manage to damage any of these components that's not to say though that static electricity can't damage computer parts I think the do-it-yourself training video already proved that you can very well damage computer components with static electricity in the sense that you're over vaulting or putting too much voltage through the said components however I mean it was kind of pointless in a way because as overclockers we already know that if you put too many volts through a component you'll fry it so basically with my tester I wanted to test hey in real-world conditions rubbing your feet on carpet whatever producing a certain you know just a little bit of static electricity is that enough to damage computer components and in the last case we saw that my computer didn't boot properly so that was pretty interesting though none of the components are damaged and as I've also as a final test I did decide to take it down on the weekend to the park and go down the slippery slide where I actually managed to zap the computer and so it still survived so how much static electricity a component can take I don't know exactly I'm not a scientist I'm just a tech review though I will say this in closing when you're handling sensitive parts go ground yourself before you do so that's what my recommendation has always been around here either by just touching a grounding point in your house or if you can't find a grounding point just go outside and touch your car though if you are one of those people who are just constantly shocking everything you touch then you may wish to indeed go out and buy an anti-static wristband or an anti-static builder's mat that's up to you personally I don't need that I don't believe in that my 15 years of building computers I've never broken apart after I've statically shocked something hell I've had parts spark up in front of me and they've still worked so that's why I'm kind of a little bit I guess a little bit anti anal retentive if that's a way to describe it against the whole static electricity thing and I will say at the end of the day I did my test here and none of the components were damaged and this was beyond the normal level of statically shocking things I went beyond the mile I didn't know what the results would be I didn't know that's why I tested it on my cheap rig that already has four dead RAM slots and that's how it came when I bought it so so that's it from me guys please give it a big thumbs up if you liked this video or if you have any questions or comments then drop a comment in the comment section below and I will get back to you as soon as I can and that's about it I'm going to go drink some mango juice this is getting pretty hot in here anyway I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out now bye for circuitry so what I've done with this memory of us sprayed on seven different kinds of spray paint so on the right we got a white gold silver pink black and white I've just sprayed it all on made sure I've got it on the circuit there so I'm just going to put this memory and see the computer boots up