It’s my old rig, some sort of old i7 and ddr3 ram. I’m taking my GPU in my hand luggage, no way I’m trusting that to the heavy handed luggage men!
Will it survive? She is expendable if the worst happens haha
I know I should fill it will socks or something but I’m not going to 😀
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I would remove all the components from the inside and wrap them individually (referring to any PCI stuff other than your GPU, CPU, and RAM.
Honestly that cpu cooler that looks like a huge rock is already calling for disaster. I would have take it out, absolutely. You’re most likely going to be fine as it’s well secured, but still. If that shit decides to get free, say goodbye to the whole pc basically.
No it won’t.
Bags are treated like this at airports:
https://i.redd.it/hpkmp3ltyhlc1.gif
Is that glass? Because it’s gonna break.
I carried my whole case as cabin baggae, no issues.
Think about getting a lapotp (NOT a gaming laptop) for occasions like that in the future.
Will save you a lot of headache.
if that side panel is glass, it will almost surely break, a plastic panel might survive.
Also the cpu cooler may be problematic due to its weight if some dips*t decides to throw your bag around.
Semiserious tip: Save the baggage fee and tell your friend to buy a used PC close to what the extra bag would’ve cost. Just bring your GPU.
https://preview.redd.it/up4qufd34ilc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03e4448a57b2be8426c5c258ff00c9f4577638ae
Haha no
From where are you flying?
It will not survive. You really shouldn’t try it.
Just not worth it mate. I guess you can do other stuff when u there or take turns
Lol you need to cushion it way more than that. It’ll break
I will update when I land later tonight. I was going to take the glass out but for experimental reasons I’m leaving it. I have faith in my packing and suitcase design, now it’s down to the airline Lufthansa!
Looking forward to seeing how this pans out
No. You need to remove the graphics card, and pack the entire interior full of paper or plastic shopping bags or something. I mean, FIRMLY pack it. Then if you can, take a bigger suitcase and try to surround the case with clothes. This still will not guarantee that the glass survives.
A long term future option would be if this is a common trip you make, to have a secondary, sturdy, all metal case to transfer your PC to.
Another long term future option is to downsize your PC altogether by swapping to an ITX motherboard and utilizing an ITX case that still fits an ATX power supply, shrinking the whole package and shifting to a no glass design.
Finally, if you still have the case box with the custom fit styrofoam, well, the case survived shipping in that the first time right? Use that, pack the interior of the case as originally recommended, and then pack the empty space around the Styrofoam too for maximum padding-then just have them check the case box. I do this with monitors when traveling, works okay for them.
No. Holy fucking shit. I’d give you a 50% chance at most.
Leave the glass panel at home. You can game without that panel
No.
we sent a pc in a bag… at the end the power supply torn out from its place, its visibly tumbled around and broke every single part of the pc…
Can we have the exact same picture again when you land?
Time to buy a steam deck my friend
Might be better to get a case that is all metal, no glass. Super compact Mini-ITX cases where made for this, but it should be a carry-on if your going on a plane.
visions of broken cooler and glass
Your PC the second the ground personal handles your suitcase.
https://i.redd.it/yittqg9dkilc1.gif
I did that once but differently. I recommend you to disassemble the PC completely, wrap each component in bubble wrap and then in Germany just buy some shitty cheap PC case or just assemble the PC without a case if it’s only temporary.
you should have it with you at all costs
It’s called carry on
You should remove the cooler
I just flied my computer out a few countries.
The glass WILL break, I have a fully metal case and it got slightly dented under layers and layers of clothing (tbh I expected that it’ll have some damage).
I took out and packaged things like the video card seperatelly, basically don’t have big blocks of weight that doesn’t have their own padding (I filled my pc’s inside with clothes wrapped in non-static wrapping plastics (dunno their name ;-;)) or isn’t attached securely enough that you could life the whole case only holding that item.
I moved my PC like this from Europe to Australia then back without any damage.
However, I had really good hard case Suitcase.
Then I put a 10mm thick plywood board over the glass panel side.
I filled the inside with clothes to support all the internals so they couldn’t move around.
Then i used the rest of my clothes to pack the outside of the case.
The only issue I had was the AIO CPU cooler.
Bubbles ended up getting stuck in the pump so I had to take the radiator out of the PC turn the PC on and shake the rad hard until the air moved out of the pump and then it started working again. That happened both times.
But otherwise that PC is still working fine 4 years later.
For reference the case is an NZXT s340 Elite and I have 2 GTX1070s in it.
No.