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I had my pc(the case wall was removed) turned on while I was holding a aluminum piece and it hit the gpu(GTX 660Ti), having an electromagnetic discharge and making the screen black. As this happened I imediatly pulled the aluminum piece away and restarted the computer. When it started again, there were no performance flaws and it ran everything as well as before.
As for now, there is no damage, but will the GPU slowly break down? And what about the other components? When the screen turned black I assume that the damage was only done to GPU since if it affected any other thing, the whole machine would crash.
 
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You are fine, your system is grounded through the PSU, plus your static charge wasnt enough to destroy the gpu. All that happened was your system detected a surge and shut down. There is no need to worry, I've had psu fail surge the whole system and they still worked.

All gpus and motherboard have surge protection and the most delicate parts of the board are protected from you being able to touch them unless you start prying off casing with a screw driver.

As long as your dont start bridging components on opposite sides of the surge protection which you didn't then you are fine.
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Wow . How do you even manage to do that !? Be more careful dude. I love the gtx 660 , although I only had a gtx 670. I loved it, they are still pretty darn golden . The computer is still running ? Your good then . But if anything else happens , it is time for an upgrade anyways
 
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I got a new mobo (z97 pro gamer) and cpu i7 4790k a couple of days ago, I have had this GPU for 3 years and it was replaced due to malfunction 2 years ago. So this one has 1 year. I have also been thinking in upgrading it this next year.
I'm really afraid it messed up cpu or mobo :/
 
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If everything boots with no BSOD your fine. To be 100% safe you can run prime 95 and 3d marks to bench your system. No crashes your ok.

Most components on your board do not run at high voltages plus there a numerous power phase protections on systems. You most likely only hit a small voltage contact point no harm done.

The black screen you saw was because the system detected a surge and shut down for protection.
 
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Well. while I'm building machines, I'm always very careful not to have this kind of problems but today when I was chilling already playing I made a joke about putting an extra heat sink that I had from the stock intel cooler in my gpu and because I was wearing a wool shirt. The aluminum from the heat sink contacted with the part that has the recycle stuff and information or somewhere near that (I'm no gpu expert) Well, since I was walking around and touching stuff earlier I should have not had much static on me, or maybe I did?

Edit: I didn't run any of those but I played metro 2033 redux for a couple of minutes that pushed my GPU up to 99% consistently
 
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You are fine, your system is grounded through the PSU, plus your static charge wasnt enough to destroy the gpu. All that happened was your system detected a surge and shut down. There is no need to worry, I've had psu fail surge the whole system and they still worked.

All gpus and motherboard have surge protection and the most delicate parts of the board are protected from you being able to touch them unless you start prying off casing with a screw driver.

As long as your dont start bridging components on opposite sides of the surge protection which you didn't then you are fine.
 
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Thanks a lot , I'll still wait for more points on view on this case but now if it weren't for you, I probably couldn't sleep tonight... Atleast its working perfectly for now and it probably won't bring problems in the future (I hope).

I hope shit doesn't hit the fan on this one.. I just got this i7 from an i3 560 3.33GHz that I had since 2010, and this alone improved a lot my games.. And I'll be so angry/sad if this stops working just after I just assembled it.
 
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