Originally posted by mipoikel
LOL 
The real fun is at Russian overclocker forums. Most of the "gurus" there are 13-15 years old. They know that it's possible to kill ICs with static. Once i read a discussion about "best static generator". They were rubbing cats, synthetic carpets, all that "amber stick against silk cloth" etc, when most of them have gas stoves and piezoelectric lighters... Maybe they all are "humanitarians", not going to study engineering or technical science... It's simple: dry air, 25kV/cm and you get a spark. So most of the lighters are several kilovolts.
If you try this trick - do it in a dark room, when frying a motherboard you can see tiny sparks all over the printed board. Looks fantastic.
BTW, 90% of the service personell don't know this trick too, so I don't share this secret knowledge in Russian discussions.
And dealing with warranty departments is a true art. I am proud that I had only one experience when I was unable to return some stuff to seller: they had an office in a factory that was guarded by militia with Kalashnikovs, so they simply didn't let me enter
