Graphics Card Packaging!

[Werethehp]

So in the next few weeks ill be selling one of my graphics cards, but ive misplaced the original packing it came in. I will most likely be sending inter-state so im looking for some tip on what too send it in and how to pack it. Obvisously I will put it in an anti-static bag and load it with bubble wrap but are there any other tips when sending graphics cards via mail too insure that it wont get damaged during shipping.

 

Thanks!

[1Scotty1]

That is all I ever used, lots and lots of bubble wrap

[RedSphyxis]

a sturdy box :3

[Bittenfleax]

Metal rod and some batteries

 

Just put it in a box with some sort of padding and make it sit firm in the box

[Bleeding Moot]

So in the next few weeks ill be selling one of my graphics cards, but ive misplaced the original packing it came in. I will most likely be sending inter-state so im looking for some tip on what too send it in and how to pack it. Obvisously I will put it in an anti-static bag and load it with bubble wrap but are there any other tips when sending graphics cards via mail too insure that it wont get damaged during shipping.

 

Thanks!

id say make sure the sli fingers are covered (assuming its nvidia) and also see what you can do about covering the io ports just to be safe.

[jurian123]

A non labled box so people wont see what is inside. And lots and lots of bubble wrap. 

[Atmos]

Last time I shipped computer components, I had the gpu inside an anti-static, then wrapped in a packing foam sheet. That then went into a box not much larger than the gpu & its wrappings, that box then went into a much larger box with the rest of the stuff & then tons of packing peanuts and bubblewrap. But that was for an entire system. (some of the parts outside of the system to avoid damage in shipping)

 

For a single gpu? I'd suppose an antistatic bag, bubblewrap, and my favorite would be a closed cell foam padding around the inside of the box just to make sure not much will happen to it. And make absolutely sure everything is packing in there tight, if there's room for it to move around, it will, and that can break it if it gets juttered too much.

[Werethehp]

Hmm, I didnt think about covering the ports etc, Thanks for the help guys, much apreciated!

[Werethehp]

Yeah, i suppose ill find a sturdy box slightly smaller than the orignal box and just fit as much bubble rap and peanuts as I can.

[Hyperion1817]

Just make sure the card cannot move around whatsoever. 

[Prysin]

if shipping interstate, just use a private courier and tell em "you break it, ill break you"