I’m in the process of building a PC and will be moving states next month. Ideally, I’d like to at least get it built and booted up before moving, because I’m moving to a more rural area without easy access to a MicroCenter or other store that sells components. It’ll be a ~700 mile drive, the second half of which will be through smaller mountain roads. What is the best way to do this, so I can avoid damaging any components?
Edit: Thanks for the advice everybody, the consensus seems to be to remove and package separately the hard disks, GPU, and anything else heavy that sticks out from the board, then wrap the whole thing in towels and blankets and lay it on its back for the duration of the journey.
Remove the GPU, and if you have a large tower cooler the cooler and wrap them up in bubble wrap and package them separately.
If it will fit nicely wrap up the GPU and just stick it inside the case. Just make sure that it cannot move at all.
Thanks, is there any chance of static from the bubblewrap causing any shorts on the motherboard? I’ll probably just wait to install the GPU until after I move then, no sense unpacking it and immediately repackaging it if everything else runs smoothly.
Is there a chance? Yes, will it destroy anything? Probably not. Just wrap the GPU back up in the anti static bag it ships in and everything else has the entire case to dissipate the charge.
Static-safe bubble wrap. You don’t want an electrical insulator rubbing against your components for a few hundred miles.