I'm gonna start putting my new comp together, and was recommended to buy one of those wrist straps that I guess you attatch to a running computer so you ground yourself out and don't fry your parts.

Nobody likes getting zapped from an electrostatic discharge, no matter whether you’re a fragile ASIC or a bag-of-mostly-salty-water humanoid. To prevent this, ESD wrist straps and similar are ...

Some years ago while replacing a hard drive, I had a motherboard fail from ESD (electrostatic discharge). Ever since then, I've used ESD wrist straps whenever I work on a computer and have never had ...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) testing is essential for many antistatic equipment and products. It is the process of checking the resistance of a device to electrostatic discharge (the sudden transfer ...

Many PC construction manuals advise the use of an anti-static wrist strap before you start assembling the PC. And an anti-static wrist strap is inexpensive and easy to use. But is it really necessary?