Transporting a PC safely

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So I am off to uni in under a month and that involves a 2 hour car drive. Are there any tips on how to transport my PC so that nothing breaks. The boot of my car has a non slip mat so the PC wont move around. This is what I have
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Do I need to do anything such as removing the GPU or what?
 
Only things i would do is possibly take off the cpu cooler as it's quite a large one just remember it would need new thermal paste. Or pad it all out with some bubble wrap or something.

Also if the system is going anywhere near large speakers in the car take the hdd out and put it into the glove box or in your bag as the magnets can cause issues.
 
Do you still have the box the case came in? If so they offer an ideal way of packing the PC and it's the way I moved mine back in my uni days. The advice I would give though is to transport it flat (so that the heatsink is pointing up) that way the vibration from bumps whilst driving isn't making the heatskink / gpu flex up and down but rather the entire system just moves in line with the waty everything is mounted.

If you have to transport it upright then I would pack foam around the heatsink as mentioned above or remove it completley to refit at the other end, but simply laying it flat is much easier in my opinion.
 
Yeah I can transport it flat which wont be an issue, unfortunately I don't have the box that the case came with as I was given the case for free from a friend after he upgraded. I might be able to make a box out of other boxes though. Alternately I could just buy a ton of bubble wrap and pad it out loads to protect it
 
ANDARIAL said:
I would plump for bubble wrap and cardboard box
Is bubble wrap safe re:static???
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bubble wrap wont be an issue. Ive done it several times before without issue. This said static really won't be an issue with the system not being powered on ( of course unless we experience a godly solar flair??? ) imagine that.. portable gaming rigs working without mains power...
 
Lay it on it's side in the car, You could remove the CPU cooler if you wanted some piece of mind but I'd move it as it is just laid down with the mobo tray at the bottom.
 
ttaskmaster said:
You're not talking about MSI gaming laptops then, I assume? :D
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There was a huge solar flair in 1976 it was so powerful it was actually recorded that un connected mains power lines were fully operating so given it could power mains power lines without them being connected to anything im going to say even if you connected one of the crazy msi laptops to that, then no probably not :D you want a nuclear reactor.
 
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