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Is it really a risk? I've never had any sort of issues, and I am NOT careful with ESD at all!?

I don't take much care about ESD either. I don't think I've ever damaged anything with it before.

only when your stroking the cat while replacing the ram or cpu components that might happen

Klinc wrote:only when your stroking the cat while replacing the ram or cpu components that might happen

What the heck?!

I dont have a cat so i guess im fine then

I have one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE2r0vjkXK0

That's what klinc meant (I think)

I take care for ESD to an extent. I've never had anything messed up with it, but I've heard you can have components fail months after the damage is done. I take my socks off when I'm working on carpet and I tend to lean on the computer case with a desktop or touch a finger to metal on a laptop. Other than that I don't fool with the wrist strap or anything.

^you'll electrocute yourself to death doing that lol I just open up the pc and swop the parts. We have a lot of tiles in our home if I might add but have never seen a ESD issue in my life to be honest. I've seen people tying themselves to waterpipes and damage their hardware by forcing it in lol