The Air Force is making me move from Italy back to the states (finally...Italy's a nice place to visit but I fucking hate living here) and I'm going to have to ship my computers back. I have an XP-90 heatsink on one computer and a Zalman CNPS9500 heatsink on the other, but when TMO comes to pack up my stuff they're going to box everything up and then put it in a big crate and ship it as one big unit. I'm thinking about just shipping my systems boxed up and on their sides but I was wondering if anyone has experience shipping computers with heatsinks and high-end components. My main worry is that movement while shipping will cause the heatsink to move around and potentially damage the motherboard or CPU (or worst case scenario, break off and damage other components as well.) Anyone have any tips?
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Tips for shipping a computer?
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Take the heatsink off, definitely. I would also pack as many peanuts in the case as possible and close it, just so everything will be snug and less chance of something popping off and bouncing around in there. If for some reason you can't take the heatsink off, making sure you put plenty of peanuts in there should hold it in place.
you can get anti-static onesDaggah said:
well when i moved back east from west coast i just packed my PC back in the box the case came in and stuffed teh inside of the case with newspaper works well then i just put the PC on the plane as checked baggage realy monitors are the tricky part
if you have LCDs just do the same thing and check them on the plane
if you have CRTs might just want to sell them there and get new ones
and when you get over dont for get to make sure you have your PSUs voltage set right
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Definitely remove the heatsink! I, too, am in the Air Force and moved my system overseas, but I made the mistake of not removing the heatsink. When I finally got it I heard 'clunk, clunk'. The heatsink made short work of my M/B and video card. They finally reaplaced it all, but it wasn't worth the time.
When I travel oversees with my computer I take the motherboard out of the case and put it in a motherboard box. I then carry this with me as checked luggage. I don't remove the heat sink but I do remove the fan.. And if the heatsink will stick out of the box I just cut a hole for the heatsink and box it in.