What It Takes to Break a RAM with ESD (ft. Linus Tech Tips) 

This was super fun! Hope you all enjoyed watching us recoil in pain... I guess.

This is the official RU-vid Rewind video of 2020 and nobody can convince me otherwise.

Imagine calling your local electricity company and this guy turning up

"It's almost like the engineers who design computers...like...do it for a living." 🤣

It's really surreal seeing Linus in Medhi's editing style. It's like the crossover we didn't realize we needed.

"I have a sponsor too", "Fine I'll do mine at home". Priceless

“What’s a good voltage, nowadays?” HAS ME DEAD😭😂😂😂 Love you Mehdi❤️

"If it`s dead, it could be the fall." Seems like Linus knows what he`s talking about.

ESD - "I am inevitable" RAM -" Meep meep"

Finally ! The MCU has started... The Mehdi Cinematic Universe !

If these 2 guys can collab more often, they can create more things, even change the world, but that's their choice

*Mehdi: I am going to borrow an ESD gun and SHOCK Linus,..I mean join him for testing.* 🤣🤣

Alternative title: two masochists shock each other and play with computer parts

Gets shocked: "Oh Yes!" ... "I mean oh no"

You guys need to do another one! This is fun! You guys work well together.

Just watched both videos, and remembered Linus had mentioned the grounds are so close together it's hard to hit a data pin. By you guys grounding the board to an actual ground wouldn't it be easier for the static to actually jump to a ground pin? Would it have been easier to destroy the card if you would have grounded a data pin instead?

Now this is a crossover we didn't know we needed

Its the crossover nobody asked for, but the one we needed.

Excellent educational videos ElectroBoom keep them coming up. Great job.

Thanks for the collaboration. This was great!

"C'mon you had to know that was happening" Linus slowly starts to realise just what he's colabing with

4:48 "oh yes... I mean, oh no" LOL

The danger from ESD ist NOT that you actually destroy something. Because, as we have seen, it takes a lot to fully break it. The biggest problem is that every discharge can damage structures inside the chips by a little. So your RAM will work, but then you get sporadic problems like crashing, etc. it might even be that it will work fine for a year and then due to aging it will produce crashes very sporadically. THAT is the real danger, because it's much more difficult to diagnose such a problem. The RAM (or whatever) "works" after all. It would have been interesting from an academic point of view to do a full RAM test after each discharge to see if the RAM has degraded. But that would be quite a lot of effort and not as much fun for the guys, I assume. :)

Can static kill your PC? The short answer is: Yes. However, it's less likely now than it was 15+ years ago. The long answer with anecdotal reference is: Absolutely. Back in the mid-1990s, I worked in tech support for a relatively new PC manufacturer, Micron Electronics, Inc. During the first couple of years, we were seeing an out of box failure (OOBF) rate of 7-9%. We worked diligently to figure out the cause for the failures, going so far as to POST 100%, boot to WINSETUP 35%, fully run test 5% of the units in the order they came out of production. We were still getting the same shipped unit OOBF results and getting 2-3% of our full run tested units back OOBF. As a new company, we hadn't anticipated the demand for our product and we were in the process of expanding our facility and adding more warehouse space for the completed and packaged product. In the meantime, we'd been using our wide hallway corridors to store the current warehouse overflow, which regularly made up over 50% of our inventory. What we discovered by tracking every unit's movement in the facility, shipping company used, and system base makeup over 6 months, was that 98% of our OOBF product had been stored in the corridors. Employees passed through those corridors and made up 1000s of passes daily creating fairly continuous airflow and, as you know, that's a high static producer. We'd been enclosing the product in regular poly bags, styrofoam impact protection, and cardboard boxes, each one on its own exactly the wrong material. We switched the bags and styrofoam to anti-static materials, started using anti-static pallets and our OOBF rate immediately dropped to

My take on this: Mehdi tried everything and it stayed alive. Then Linus touched it!

"Two nerds electrocute themselves senseless for views on RU-vid"

I’ve been binge watching your videos and this one is one of my favorites I love watching you two have fun testing and shocking each other

This is more or less what I do for a job! Using specialized equipment, I take micro-chips and zap them, most failing under 2kV. I don't really have a computer background nor electrical background so I'm trying to learn what all goes through in the process. Ironically enough, I originally watched Linus's video before starting there and now I've seen yours! I appreciate all you do to show beginners what all the devices around us do, and what we take for granted, very interesting stuff!

Linus: “We don’t have to do this” Mehdi: “but we have the opportunity”😂

I think this is the first time I’ve heard Medhi NOT swear even once.

When i was in training to be an electronics assembler, they gave us examples of ESD damage. They were on surface mount parts. Surface mount parts are extremely tiny, as in you can nearly fit two of them on your pinky nail. We were building the electronic components placed in radar systems. Markedly different from the RAM sticks in your PC.

Amazing collab. Loved it.

Mehdi: How much voltage should we give it? Linus: Yes.

6:43 This is it boys, this is proof he does accidentally shock himself sometimes (not all the time) due to forgetting he is charged.

Happy New year mr.electro boom

the editing in this video is top notch, also it's very informative :D

I appreciate both youtubers refusing to compromise their characters.

I cant imagine electroboom ingesting the 8k footage from linus

His last words are gonna be-'Alright its plug it in ."

I love your enthusiasm! Amazing content as always 😸

16:04 Hi I'm Mehdi and this is Jackass

18 minutes and 49 seconds of corsair's advertisement 😂😂

Your dedication to testing is admirable!

Merry Christmas and happy new year

"I'm preparing to go meet with the GREAT Linus over from TechTips..." *shoving electronics into garbage bags and extra shopping bags from the pantry*

Both videos were fantastic. These are the kind of collaboration videos we need.

For someone who makes most of his videos solo, you handled this video very well. Good job sir.

That was fun. Been smiling the whole video!

4:48 I love that "Oh yes, I mean Oh no"

Medhi getting zapped and not swearing is no fun at all😂

Let’s see more of these collaborations!!

This was hilarious. Thanks to you both for setting this up!

That entire meetup ElectroBOOM was just waiting to jump in on that sick transition to Linus' sponsor

“Ground yourself” my parents are everywhere now

The collaboration we didn’t wanted but needed ⚡️

This is a very fun and informative video. The crossover with Linus is how I discovered your channel.

Mehdi: "To make it reasonable, are you changing the voltage there?!!" Linus: "Watt?"

I want to see him voiceover the next "Despicable me"

Happy new year! Good luck. Wish you to be happy with your family and have more then 10 M subs

Awesome video 😀

“The guy from the sad Linus mene” lolllll i remember that video. It was a joy to watch the video love both your channels.

That ads segment lol Linus: mine Mehdi: *EXPRESS VPN*

Best crossover of the year!! Love your channel and the lessons. Stay safe with your projects, we need you alive HAHAHA

Love this banter

"I sometimes forget" lmao this line killed me hahahahaha

The perfect yt channel crossover doesn't exi-

Please make more content!!!! I watched already all your videos and I love them😍 Best regards from Germany✌️🖖

awesome video, keep up the great work guys :D

It's been my experience that ram dies one address at a time. I bet running a full memtest86 after the first shock would have revealed an address that had failed.

0:08 I love how he just pointed Linus as Linus sad meme

I love your channel especially because you give when you explain some comedy and simplify a lot of complicated things. I hope you will get 10 million subscribers.

Awesome co-op! :)

Seeing mehdi in linus' filming quality is weird It's so. ... good o_o

"I'm gonna kill it no matter watt"...I died

I like how Linus is in a matching mask and t shirt and Mehdi's wearing a dust mask from b&q.

Around 5:40 Linus mentions how there may be a preference for the discharge to jump to ground pins. If I had to guess I'd say this is plausible for the following reason: the data pins have some amount of residual charge on them that would be greater than the ground line, therefore creating a larger voltage between the ground pin and the source than between it and the data pins. If what linus mentioned was in fact the case, this would be why since the discharge would want to jump to the point of greatest voltage.

"Oh yes!", "I mean, oh no" 😏

I wasn't expecting the "EXPRESS VPN!" and boy, oh boy, I laughed so hard that my cat came to see if I was all right. hahaha

Great video!

Best collab video ever

THE EPIC COMBO THE MR ZAPPY AND MR DROPPY

I've been working on computer hardware since the mid 1980s -- back far enough that you had individual RAM chips in individual sockets, not these DIMMS where most of what you're touching is a ground-plane of some sort. I have *never* burned out a modern RAM stick with ESD -- but back in the day, it was *so* much easier to kill your RAM when they were just a bunch of chips sitting on your desk and you had to push them into dozens of sockets. That's really where this whole "ESD is dangerous" thing comes from. It *is* still dangerous, of course -- just not nearly as much as it used to be. Computer engineers have done an excellent job over the years of protecting our electronics from it.

This was exeptionatley fun to watch!

such an epic battle

That "Oh Yes!" at 4:47 though...

Linus : "Its almost like the engineers who designed it do it for a living "

I'm working with electronics, including PCs for way over 30 years and the only thing I killed by static (and not intentionally) is an LCD alarm clock radio. More punctually its button interface, the radio/clock still works but it doesn't react to the buttons - but if I reset it exactly at midnight it starts at zero! :D ... and I achieved this by dusting off a CRT tv screen and then accidentally going near the clock. Nothing else I can remember of, ever got damaged by static near or by me.

In the first times of MOS technology, I mean NMOS, PMOS, those components are very sensitive to ESD. Nowadays those old technologies have disappeared and are replaced by CMOS with shottky diodes at the input, eventually protecting from little discharge, and you first need to blow one of those diode to kill the circuit behind at the end

You've successfully convinced me that just touching the PC case before I work on my PC has been more than adequate all along.

Linus and Mehdi: "How are you not dead?" The RAM: "I have no idea!"

How did I miss this one! lol love it

You're still alive! Man i'm glad! 😆

This was the greatest crossover in history of RU-vid, maybe ever.

Some engineer is really happy seeing this...

6:47 that's just amazing timing on Mehdi

😱 This is the best colab EVER!!! 🤩

1:19 I like how the music is relaxing while linus is screaming in the backround

this is a collaboration i never thought i’d see

i love this guy back

Thanks guys, that was fun to watch, please team up again.