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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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 Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:04 am Post subject: Am I Wrong Or Are They Crazy!!! |
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So I'm buying my new 1 gig of RAM at Technomart last week and the young guy serving starts wrapping each of my 512mb sticks in tin foil!!
I thought, static being the big danger to chips, that tin foil was the last thing you should wrap them in! It conducts electricity!!
And why they don't have anti-static plastic bags I'll never know. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| same thing happened to me, I nearly shat myself. No problems with the RAM when I got it home though! |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I know what you mean. I have never had any problems though. Although you want to be careful now with static especially coming into winter. |
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agraham
Joined: 19 Aug 2004
Location: Daegu, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| Umm.. anti-static bags conduct electicity too. Have you never noticed they're made of aluminum? If they didn't conduct, static electricity could build up inside. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: Am I Wrong Or Are They Crazy!!! |
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[quote="eamo"]So I'm buying my new 1 gig of RAM at Technomart last week and the young guy serving starts wrapping each of my 512mb sticks in tin foil!!
I thought, static being the big danger to chips, that tin foil was the [b]last [/b]thing you should wrap them in! It conducts electricity!!
And why they don't have anti-static plastic bags I'll never know.[/quote]
The tin foil conducts electricity, so there's no danger of static buildup. It's a useful protective measure. And since it's a lot cheaper than anti-static bags, they use it instead.
They're not crazy. Just cheapskates.
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: Am I Wrong Or Are They Crazy!!! |
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| muggie2dammit wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
So I'm buying my new 1 gig of RAM at Technomart last week and the young guy serving starts wrapping each of my 512mb sticks in tin foil!!
I thought, static being the big danger to chips, that tin foil was the last thing you should wrap them in! It conducts electricity!!
And why they don't have anti-static plastic bags I'll never know. |
The tin foil conducts electricity, so there's no danger of static buildup. It's a useful protective measure. And since it's a lot cheaper than anti-static bags, they use it instead.
They're not crazy. Just cheapskates.
Muggie2 |
Okay. Now I see. I guessed a guy dealing exclusively in RAM knew what he was doing but you can never be sure..... |
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