Need help - Is it possible to short term lease a PC for my visiting girlfriend?

[x-st]

My girlfriend, who lives in the Czech Republic, is just about starting to gain a little following on her twitch account and is very anxious about leaving her setup behind. She was planning on coming to stay with me for 3 months but getting her PC here is somewhat of a nightmare. She has a relatively modest PC, 8400 and 1060, but the case is tempered glass and we have no idea how to get it here safely (and back again) when no-one seems like they will insure it. I was looking at specialist PC couriers but she doesn't feel confident in the transport process at all. I then was trying to find a refurbished complete PC cheap for her to use when she was here with the same or slightly better specs but it seems crazy to me that everything seems to cost what she paid for her PC almost 3 years ago.

Which leads me to leasing? I can't seem to find any good options for an individual to lease an ok gaming PC which she can play and video edit on, for just over 2 months. I'm just outside of London so was hoping there were some potential options but nothing seems affordable or workable. Are there any solutions for getting her access to a PC so she won't lose all she has worked for and allow her to travel without any question marks?

 

[x-st]

Thanks for all the advice. I had considered how hard it would be to drive to Prague, but crossing through 4 countries, with all the Covid complications (and Brexit) at the borders seemed like a massive headache.

I would love to get her to fly over the innards of her PC but she loves the thing and I don't think that she's going to be too flexible about taking it apart and then reassembling it in another case. She's kind of stressed at the moment and getting her to trust me that everything will survive the flight in her luggage is a big ask right now.

So essentially it looks like buying a prebuilt and reselling is the best option...how much am i looking at losing in the resale realistically? And any suggestions where the best place to buy something of similar specs might be? I guess I can probably convince her (hopefully) to bring her HDD and SSD.

 

[x-st]

Sounds way more to the story than meets the eye.

Honestly there's not. She just gets touchy when I suggest doing stuff that might be risky in terms of her PC. It's the one thing she has that means anything to her, she's also finishing the tenancy on her apartment right now too, so she has no real storage for things and she feels like she has to pick me or potentially doing what she loves....Lose/Lose in her words. I am also not the most technical person (I have assembled precisely one desktop in my life) and if she turns up and i can't put it together with her or we break something I know that falling into a volcanic eruption would be preferable to dealing with the aftermath.