Recent content by superman50

Basically this is what I'm getting. Especially with the PSU. Does it matter if the PSU is plugged in or not? Steel case sitting on a travertine table in a room with hardwood floors. Is that not grounded/higher risk of damaging my parts?

:non: You have an Ivy Bridge CPU with a motherboard designed for Sandy Bridge. I'd recommend a chipset thats z77. I know you said you have a budget and have an extra hard drive, but I recommend an SSD if you're going to fork over 900 bucks anyways. The graphics card is decent for games but...

I don't feel like setting up the external build. I just want to pop the CPU(Ivy Bridge with integrated graphics) into the mobo, pop the ram in, and stick it in the case. Do parts really ship with high enough defect rates where I'm much better off connecting everything outside the case to test...

I need a straight answer.... is this overblown? I keep hearing one side of the argument that even a little can fry your mobo/cpu/ram/HDD, and the other side that people work on carpet for years and never once had a problem. Generally speaking, If I touch the case constantly/while I'm touching...