How should I ship a PC

ambrosesainsbury · Nov 30, 2016

How to ship a PC

I am moving and I need to send it to my PC to my new home. We are hiring a delivery company (one you probably don't know) should I completely disassemble my PC or is it fine if I but it in a box with lots of bubble wrap.

mcnumpty23 · Nov 30, 2016

some people like to remove the heatsink if its really big

personally every time i have moved the pc just went in the movers van as it is

didnt box it or anything

though all the movers i used were fully insured

Sulfurous · Nov 30, 2016

I brought a full tower by airplane 2 years ago.

If your CPU cooler is big/heavy (like those big Noctua) you may want to disassemble that before shipping it. Mechanical hard drives ideally should be bubble wrapped and isolated against static electricity. Your RAM, Bluray player, etc should be okay if well bolted and not heavy.

Once I arrived at my destination I had to reseat both graphic cards because Windows wasn't detecting them anymore so you may want to package that separately if you can.

Don't forget to tape up the box strongly because mine opened up and luckily the airport baggage people put my power cord inside the box in a way that it wouldn't fall out of it again.

hang-the-9 · Nov 30, 2016

Remove the hard-drive and take it with you, your files are the only thing you can't replace if lost/damaged.

TokyoTom · Jan 31, 2017

I know you got your answer already, but I would stress what Miruso said. Remove any heavy parts, especially if you have a big GPU.

I recently shipped a PC from Tokyo to Singapore. When I started it up it seemed like everything was fine, but it turned out that one of my GPUs, a big 7950 was damaged. It had no backplate and got jarred during the move. Long story short, the second GPU ended up dying because the cooler was broken and the heatsync came loose. I didn't notice until I overheated the card a few minutes after running it.

I had put styrofoam between the GPUs to keep things from moving, but that was not enough.

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