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

x-st said:
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?
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Can't she just break it down and bring the components over? Leave the case, and maybe power supply?

Seems a lot of stress when there's an easy answer.
 
dowie said:
He said she has a modest PC with a 1060 so presume not water cooled. Post below mentions you can stream on a mobile phone even, I suspect the streaming itself doesn't take much but maybe the PC is needed for the gaming etc..



I presumed she plays computer games or something? Do some people just fire up twitch and just start talking live or something? I'm not familiar with it all so hadn't heard of homeless twitch streamers etc.. quite a neat way of getting donations tbh...
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That's why I was reply to that person specifically.
 
This thread is full of bizarrely hostile responses.

@LabR@t just because it’s not your job, doesn’t make it invalid. I’m sure other people consider being a conspiracy nut not a real job, but you seem to take it very seriously.

im4gine3 said:
or stick it on a pallet stuffed with the vac pack stuff which molds around the computer components protecting them (can't remeber what they are actually called) and courier it across.. Parcelmonkey does it for around 200-500 euros from CZ to UK with £1k insured
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This seems like the best option to me. Seems like everyone who transports PCs these days is using this expanding stuff to do it. Also, I think they tend to take the GPU out of its slot instead of leaving it installed.

Microsoft has just released its Microsoft 365 cloud service. That could work. And there are various companies doing cloud-based gaming services.
 
OP is about to be fleeced of several £k and find out he never had a gf at all but has been scammed.

Seriously.

lives in another country - check
cam girl - check
eastern european - check
has a BS story about needing something expensive for "work" - check
 
dowie said:
Sounds like the case is the issue? For the cost of leasing one surely, you could just buy an inexpensive case that doesn't use glass?

Alternatively, just buy/build another PC (perhaps second-hand) and sell it in 2 months for a small loss.
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I remember back when I was building PCs, you could buy a case at a show for about £10. It would be a horrible beige thing with a cheap PSU in it, and Sharpe edges that would sever fingers if you weren't careful. Good times.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
OP is about to be fleeced of several £k and find out he never had a gf at all but has been scammed.

Seriously.

lives in another country - check
cam girl - check
eastern european - check
has a BS story about needing something expensive for "work" - check
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Yep. Had to double check this wasn't a robfosters thread
 
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