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So around a year ago I built my first custom tower and now I'm moving away to the UK from Portugal and I'm a bit afraid of anything being damaged during shipping. I'm removing the mechanical hard drives and shipping them in separate encased in bubble wrap and I'm also removing the GPU.

The one part I'm not sure about shipping separately is the CPU cooler. It's a Hyper 212 EVO (big surprise there right? such an unusual choice) and I'm scared that if the box is tossed around or something, the weight of the cooler might damage the board. To sum up, should I ship the cooler separately or not? 

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1 minute ago, Sycro said:

So around a year ago I built my first custom tower and now I'm moving away to the UK from Portugal and I'm a bit afraid of anything being damaged during shipping. I'm removing the mechanical hard drives and shipping them in separate encased in bubble wrap and I'm also removing the GPU.

The one part I'm not sure about shipping separately is the CPU cooler. It's a Hyper 212 EVO (big surprise there right? such an unusual choice) and I'm scared that if the box is tossed around or something, the weight of the cooler might damage the board. To sum up, should I ship the cooler separately or not? 

Fill that baby up with them packing peanuts.

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4 minutes ago, Sycro said:

So around a year ago I built my first custom tower and now I'm moving away to the UK from Portugal and I'm a bit afraid of anything being damaged during shipping. I'm removing the mechanical hard drives and shipping them in separate encased in bubble wrap and I'm also removing the GPU.

The one part I'm not sure about shipping separately is the CPU cooler. It's a Hyper 212 EVO (big surprise there right? such an unusual choice) and I'm scared that if the box is tossed around or something, the weight of the cooler might damage the board. To sum up, should I ship the cooler separately or not? 

Pack up everything except the motherboard, those things can take lots of drops without breaking

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1 minute ago, IskanderEXC said:

Fill that baby up with them packing peanuts.

Won't that cause a static problem? the last thing I need on my hands is a dead board

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1 minute ago, Sycro said:

Won't that cause a static problem? the last thing I need on my hands is a dead board

Fill that baby up with them bubble wrap

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1 minute ago, IskanderEXC said:

Fill that baby up with them bubble wrap

those also create static (don't they?)

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10 minutes ago, Aytex said:

Pack up everything except the motherboard, those things can take lots of drops without breaking

Even the CPU? 

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1 hour ago, Sycro said:

So around a year ago I built my first custom tower and now I'm moving away to the UK from Portugal and I'm a bit afraid of anything being damaged during shipping. I'm removing the mechanical hard drives and shipping them in separate encased in bubble wrap and I'm also removing the GPU.

The one part I'm not sure about shipping separately is the CPU cooler. It's a Hyper 212 EVO (big surprise there right? such an unusual choice) and I'm scared that if the box is tossed around or something, the weight of the cooler might damage the board. To sum up, should I ship the cooler separately or not? 

leave the cpu in the motherboard, it should be fine.

 

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4 hours ago, Sycro said:

those also create static (don't they?)

I wouldn't think so

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Put an antistatic bag over your motherboard (with your CPU in) then bubble wrap like crazy and put in a suitable box, worked for me :) did that with the rest of my parts as well. I left the case at ''home'' and bought another one abroad. 

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Dont they sell like expanding foam pads or something?

 

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5 hours ago, Sycro said:

So around a year ago I built my first custom tower and now I'm moving away to the UK from Portugal and I'm a bit afraid of anything being damaged during shipping. I'm removing the mechanical hard drives and shipping them in separate encased in bubble wrap and I'm also removing the GPU.

The one part I'm not sure about shipping separately is the CPU cooler. It's a Hyper 212 EVO (big surprise there right? such an unusual choice) and I'm scared that if the box is tossed around or something, the weight of the cooler might damage the board. To sum up, should I ship the cooler separately or not? 

Take a look at this for some ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL-Ck_6wfPM

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if you're worry just ship the cooler by itself. or find out how much it would cost to ship. then maybe just toss it out and buy a new one if cost more to ship or about the same. why waste time shipping.

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