Shipping fully built pc

[Tasuma]

I just built a new pc and I want to send my old one to my GF as a two year anniversary present/two year. She mainly plays WoW so it'll suit her better than her 7 year old PoS. How would I safely ship everything build? She doesn't know a ton about hardware. I'm in FL and she is in KY. It is a mid tower case with M-atx board. May buy M-atx case for her simply for the small form factor. I'd prob use fedex. I also have the original box the case came in with the foam. I was thinking peanuts and that along with anti-static something for the inside to keep stuff from sagging or getting damaged.

[IP man]

Deliver it personally, "guranteed action" if you know what i mean  

 

Also very romantic

[Tasuma]

I would have to either put the thing on a plane and fly up with it. Or drive 18 hours. Besides I'll play some games with her if I ship it and visit her later.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Hmm, I would advise taking out the GPU and wrapping it separately to ensure the PCIe connector doesn't snap. 

 

But loads of bubble wrap and soft foam inside the case is a good idea to stop things damaging anything else if they come off. Also, wrap the box is a ton of fragile tape, couriers seem to have bad vision when it comes to noticing that the contents are fragile. 

[Guest]

The only thing you really need to worry about are large heatsinks and the GPU. Either take those off, ship them seperately and tell her to install them before she does anything else, or make sure to keep them from shaking around too much during transportation. Either way, she would have to take off the sidepanel and do something with the PC before turning it on, if you have a low profile CPU cooler I'd just leave that on and send the GPU seperately.

[Tasuma]

Ok. I was just gonna throw a budget cooler in the thing since I still use my evo.