Hardware & Technical Very important question about my house move. [SYSTEM TRANSPORT]

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I would like to ask what I should do to ensure the safety of my rig during the journey to my new home.

Should I take it apart, and if so, how far should the disassembly go?

Any advice?
 

Roybe

Roybe
Treat your monitor like any television...and just be sure your computer does not bounce around....put a seat belt around it and it should be fine.

Used to repair computers for a living and never had issues with driving them to and from houses and workplaces. If the computer takes a tumble...just make sure to open it up and check all the cards and memory are seated in their slots properly.

Putting this in perspective, one of the things IBM would tell their reps back in the day when grease would freeze up inside of hard drives was to drop the computer, from a height of 2 or 3 feet (in such a manner as the boards and chips would seat into their slots) to break the friction of the grease.

Of course with platters and heads reading much finer lines of 0's and 1's, this might not be such a good idea, however, you will be surprised at how much a modern computer can withstand before it loses data and integrity from just physical movement.

Treat it like a child you care about and you will be fine...and give it a cursory check by pushing in all the boards and memory when you arrive.
 

Pville_Piper

Pville_Piper
I used to travel with my desktop and never had any issues. Make sure you protect you screen and if you have a very heavy CPU cooler or GPU then I'd worry about it, otherwise no. It's a not bad idea, once you get to your new home, to check connections and reseat any cards or your ram to make sure that nothing has wiggled loose but it's not mandatory.
 

TorTorden_VR

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If you do you could consider laying it down on the side so motherboard and thus sinks and GPU push down.
But really you need to have some serious seriously heavy hardware, like some custom made, all copper passive GPU air cooler type of stuff, and or forget to actually apply the screws for the gpu etc to the case, if those are in place it would take a rather serious event for anything to go anywhere out of norm.

Otherwise just general sense, don't drive like an idiot etc.

Happy trails.
 

Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
If it's a long journey I'd remove GPU. Even modern reinforced PCIe slots don't save from GPU sag with big cards, and that's while sitting on your table motionless. Also, if you have one of those big twin tower aircoolers on CPU you could remove it. AIO and custom loops should be fine.
 

lokvette

lokvette
I used to move my pc around in the back of a car all the time with no problems, however when I moved to Sweden I took the whole thing to bits and used a lot of bubble wrap. It came via TNT, plane and white van man.:D
 

Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
lokvette said:
I used to move my pc around in the back of a car all the time with no problems, however when I moved to Sweden I took the whole thing to bits and used a lot of bubble wrap. It came via TNT, plane and white van man.:D
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TNT is never a great thing to put next to sensitive electronic equipment :)
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
Unless you're planning to hand it to unprofessional movers or the postal system, or if you're moving somewhere seriously offroad, it'll be fine as-is. If you're feeling paranoid, the advice about removing the GPU is not bad, and if you have an excessively tall CPU cooler, you could take that off for the move too. (This is assuming you have a somewhat sensible system in a "normal" case.)

Remember: millions of chintzy AF g@m0r rigs survived LAN parties back in the days. I just dropped mine in front of the passenger seat and the CRT rode in the back seat, never caused a problem. You may want to put it on its side, mainboard down though.
 
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Jon flint

Jon flint
If you have a heavy air cooler (like a noctua d15 or similar) it's probably best to remove it prior to transport, seen many cracked motherboard's after a system has been in transit due to the sheer weight of large tower coolers.
 
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