The resistor is actually there to protect the wearer (wearee?) from electrical shock while allowing high-voltage to bleed off to ground, but this only applies when working on live circuitry (which you should avoid).
If you touch the metal of the case you are already at the same electrical potential as the components inside it, so it would be practically impossible for you to discharge any harmful jolts to your mobo. No worries.
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Mobo MA770-UD3P CPU 7750BE RAM:4x1GB OCZ Gold GPU:XFX HD6850 Black Edition @820/4400MHz Case: Antec Sonata III PS: Corsair HX620 |