Freezing the balls off of my PCs

[aisle9]

I'm in the process of moving from a warm part of the US to a much colder part of the US. I won't be able to move into my house until Saturday afternoon. In the meantime, tonight and tomorrow nights in particular, it's supposed to get cold. How call? Balls cold. 10F cold (which is negative something for all you folks in part of the world where sensible measurements are used). In my car are 3 desktops and 2 laptops. I'm concerned about the cold having some kind of ill effects, but I'm not sure if that's reasonably likely to happen. Metal chilling below freezing and gradually warming back up won't hurt it, but condensation? Would that be an issue? All 5 PCs are inside of sealed cardboard boxes.

 

I don't have a ton of options for what to do with these. Those would be either leave them in the car or literally unpack 3 desktops and a box with two laptops into the hotel with me both nights (different hotels). If there's a real chance of a few grand worth of electronics being ruined by the cold, I'll go to that extreme, but I'd really rather not do that. Think the PCs will be fine?

[Hinjima]

3 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

I'm in the process of moving from a warm part of the US to a much colder part of the US. I won't be able to move into my house until Saturday afternoon. In the meantime, tonight and tomorrow nights in particular, it's supposed to get cold. How call? Balls cold. 10F cold (which is negative something for all you folks in part of the world where sensible measurements are used). In my car are 3 desktops and 2 laptops. I'm concerned about the cold having some kind of ill effects, but I'm not sure if that's reasonably likely to happen. Metal chilling below freezing and gradually warming back up won't hurt it, but condensation? Would that be an issue? All 5 PCs are inside of sealed cardboard boxes.

 

I don't have a ton of options for what to do with these. Those would be either leave them in the car or literally unpack 3 desktops and a box with two laptops into the hotel with me both nights (different hotels). If there's a real chance of a few grand worth of electronics being ruined by the cold, I'll go to that extreme, but I'd really rather not do that. Think the PCs will be fine?

They can withstand subzero temperatures without issues, just imagine PC's and phones being shipped during winter time, they stay in ice cold trucks over night in subzero.  Just let the PC's and Laptops warm up to room temperature once you get them into a normal / heated room, Don't turn them on immediately as this can cause condensation as you mention. Just let them get to room temp and you will be fine, no problemo.

[Levent]

You should be fine if you let your devices get up to room temperature when they are in your house. This wouldnt be a problem if you also have a way of dehumidifying your new house, if you let your devices get dehumidified for couple of hours before turning them on, you are fine.

[aisle9]

Thank you both, letting everything warm up is the plan