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Yes, I know this isn't an exciting 500th post... I will make up for that.
but I need some help. I am going to be shipping my computer (Tower and Monitor) a decent distance this summer. From here in southern california, to Arizona. It is about a 400 mile journey. I want to ship it out relatively quick (ship it on a monday, tuesday at the latest, have it arrive that wednesday, 2 days or next day.)
I've been curious as to:
1. What company I should use to ship my computer?
2. How should I prepare my computer and monitor?
3. Any other tips from experienced Computer shippers out there?
Thank you for any help, it will be greatly appreciated!
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My company ships computers daily, we use FedEX and UPS air. Work well and never had problems, I think it's more important how you wrap it rather than the shipping.
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Make sure you have your heatsinks -etc REALLY secured well... seen horror stories of coolers ripping the sockets off of their motherboards...
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On June 17 2010 11:09 GreEny K wrote:
My company ships computers daily, we use FedEX and UPS air. Work well and never had problems, I think it's more important how you wrap it rather than the shipping.
alright thank you
can you tell me what would be the best way to wrap it all? my monitor etc etc
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On June 17 2010 11:50 Raydog wrote:Show nested quote +On June 17 2010 11:09 GreEny K wrote:
My company ships computers daily, we use FedEX and UPS air. Work well and never had problems, I think it's more important how you wrap it rather than the shipping. alright thank you can you tell me what would be the best way to wrap it all? my monitor etc etc
The monitor should be in an inside box with some sort of packaging holding it tight (newspaper etc) and then be surrounded by foam peanuts on the inside of a second box. And even then there's a chance it may be damaged, but thats unavoidable.
You should worry more about the tower though. Vibrations will ruin your hard drive and damage other components as well. Pay for the most expensive luxury service and mark it as fragile, as well as taking rediculous packaging measures, to make sure it isn't damaged.
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tbh, put it in a box, pack it in foam, and ship it via any delivery service. Spend the extra $5 to get insurance and don't worry about it. If you have the original box for the tower, pack it in that.
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Do you have Purolator in the US? They specialize in expedient deliveries and offer all sorts of extra protection... just to shop around for prices and things.
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On June 17 2010 11:20 Loser777 wrote:
Make sure you have your heatsinks -etc REALLY secured well... seen horror stories of coolers ripping the sockets off of their motherboards...
That's usually big air coolers 120mm, that kind of just hang there, you can remove the cooler before shipping or try to use foam block to support it. Also make sure your gpu is screwed in now just clipped it with those "tooless" assemblies.
For the inside of the computer you want things not to move at all, and for the monitor you want it in the center of a box back filled with packing peanuts, and wrapped with something to protect the screen.
When i got my monitor from newegg it had a gash across the box but the monitor was fine due to the packing.
For computer packaging is more important then whos shipping it, if it's really expensive computer one can always take out shipping insurance lol although i never have (not quite sure how it would work anyways)
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I would take my hard drives out and put them back into the plastic clamshells they were in and then wrap some foam/bubblewrap around them. If you don't have that, just wrap the foam. You may want to consider removing the CPU cooling if you have a fairly large tower heatsink (stock heatsinks should be fine), or if you are using watercooling like the Corsair H50.
If you have a GPU I would take it out as well since there have been cases of GPUs getting ripped out of their PCIe slots (fairly rare though, but I wouldn't take the chance).
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