Best/safest way to transport computer in car?

[haaammit]

Hi. As per title I need to transport my computer in the car tomorrow and wanted to know the best/ safest way to do so.
Should I remove the gpu or pack it in place and should anything else be removed? The only other things on the mobo are an m.2 drive, lightweight wifi card and a water block as part of an aio cooler (plus ram and cpu obvs).
Laid down or kept upright? Any other points?
Many thanks

 

[nox_uk]

Try to get the motherboard horizontal/flat, and the Gpu sticking upwards/vertical.that way you won’t have the weight of the cpu heat sink or gpu pulling down on the motherboard.

bit of an assumption no water cooling…

 

[im4gine3]

depending on the size of the case, if you can squeeze it in one of the passenger footwells (upright obviously), that should be possible.. i've done this in the past and no problems... otherwise as long as you don't drive like a looney, strap it to the front passenger seat with the seatbelt on tight.

 

[pcuser]

I put the case in the back seat behind the front pasenger seat horizontally and push back the front passenger seat to keep it in place. A passenger in the back seat behind driver's seat sits next and holds a hand on top of it just in case .

 

[Nathlm]

Ideally it would be under a cargo net with the mobo horizontal and in a box with the gpu packed in there with material like the big box stores use for this, or removed and in its own box.

I honestly think you'll be fine either way, as it's unlikely to break, in all honesty.

I transported mine about an hour and held on to it with someone else driving, which probably isn't the safest thing in case of a crash, but it had a full hard-line water-cooling loop in.

 

[d_brennen]

Unless the GPU or CPU cooler is exceptionally heavy, chuck it in the boot on its side and drive like a normal human being

 

[haaammit]

Thanks for all the replies. I had it upright on the back seat, held in place by my daughter and a seatbelt and it's working fine.

Cheers