Shipping Computers Overseas

[Herot]

Has anyone had any experience traveling overseas with their PCs?  Will be moving to New Zealand in a week and need to ship two identical PCs.

 

Looking for any helpful hints, will be going with a commercial moving company, but I'd prefer packaging them myself.

 

Pieces of note: Cooler Master HAF X, nVidia 680GTX, Noctua 6 Dual Heatpipe, and BenQ XL2420T.

 

Thanks!

[ForeseenVisionz]

inside the case put those inflatable air bags and outside cover it with the included case plastic/papery cover then like 500 layers of bubble wrap in a box with those peanuts in its with the box written fragile over iit. if u want to go extreme you could take it apart and protect each part separately which would be even safer but allota work.(you can never be too carefull) hope i helped give you an idea 

[KamiKatze]

Take out the GPU and pack it seperatley.

[acidydragon]

Foam is your friend.

Pack as much foam as you can.

 

I would suggest removing the GPU as well.

Maybe the HDD's too if you're feeling super cautious.

 

If you have a tower air cooler, again, I might suggest removing that.

 

So either remove everything heavy, or pack lots of foam.

 

The video is a tad overkill for a non watercooled system, but it gets my idea across.

 

@Herot

[Mouse-Potato]

Also face your screen to the side of your case and put it in the box, that way it's protected.

[Herot]

Thanks for the help guys!  Lots of foam and bubble warp, and removing the GPU.

 

@acidydragon  Thanks for the video, definitely helped my thought process on the whole thing.

[acidydragon]

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Yep yep! Good luck