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?

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When working on the insides of a desktop PC — or any electronic device for that matter — static ...

Frying a computer component with static is one of those things that very rarely ever happens. Yet it can happen, as I found out recently through personal experience — when building a new PC, I made a ...