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as you guys know ltx is coming up and this year we've teamed up with dreamhack

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so there's gonna be a giant byoc or bring your own computer lan party

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pretty sweet but how can you safely be

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your c well today we're gonna show you guys and really anyone else who wants to

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move their computer around how to safely transport a gaming rig whether you're

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driving flying or even just shipping it

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to yourself separately speaking of tips you might want to

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consider using an origin pc you can customize your origin pc desktop with an

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NVIDIA GeForce rtx graphics card and pair it with a g-sync monitor for fast

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refresh rates learn more at the link below

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first things first packing up a computer is a little bit different than other

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objects because not only do you have to protect the outside don't want to dent

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in the top of your case but you also have to protect the insides and that's

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where we're going to start today inside your pc some parts are at much higher

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risk than others take for example the CPU cooler

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while a lower profile cooler with a robust metal mounting mechanism might

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not cause much trouble a tall top heavy

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cooler like this one or a cooler that uses plastic push pins even if it's not

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that heavy is liable to either put a lot

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of torque on the motherboard potentially bending or breaking it or worse yet

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come detached from the motherboard in shipping and bang around inside your

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system i have seen this it is not pretty

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so there's a few ways that you can deal with the cooler first is to avoid this

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situation altogether by using an aio water cooling kit

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yes they can be expensive and they don't always even cool your system better

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but they are a safer solution when it comes to transporting your machine

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because most of their weight is spread out and mounted to the case rather than

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hanging off your CPU socket option number two is to remove your

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cooler all together before you transport it now this is labor intensive and

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remember you're going to have to reapply your thermal paste when you put it all

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back together but it definitely improves the safety

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the third option is to keep the cooler in place but to pack extra material

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around it so that it can't move under any circumstances and if it comes off it

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won't be able to hit anything i'll show you guys how to do that in just a moment

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our next usual suspect is

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the hard drive now these are actually pretty freaking fragile because a lot of

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the assemblies like the discs or the spindle rely on highly precise

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alignments where a deviation of even a thousandth of an inch can kill your

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drive not only that but shocks and vibrations

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can actually cause the recording heads to rattle against the discs possibly

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scratching them if mounted properly inside your case

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which will then be in a box it's probably okay to leave it in however if

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you want to be extra cautious it can be a good idea to take your hard drives out

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and carry them with you or at the very least make sure that you've backed up

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your important data before leaving home other vulnerable components in your

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tower include really anything with an edge connector

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but not all of them are equally at risk with

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your RAM you can usually feel pretty safe just by putting a couple of zip

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ties around the outside of the slot for it and for something like a network card

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yes it fits into a PCIe slot and it has the same number of anchor points as a

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graphics card but because it's light there's very little risk of it coming

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out on the subject of graphics cards these are a problem and the reason is

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because they're heavy they've got just two anchor points the screw at the back

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and the slot on the motherboard so as you can imagine it's possible for these

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to even rip the socket apart when the case gets dropped like a courier is apt

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to do so the safest course of action is to

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take it out before transporting your rig but

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if you're gonna do this and this applies to your hard drive too you should really

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put it in an anti-static bag this will prevent electric charges from

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building up on your device and potentially damaging the circuitry now

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if you've still got the static shielding bag that came with your GPU or your hard

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drive these are the best alternatively

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you can use a polyethylene antistatic bag these ones are usually pink just

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keep in mind that these are dissipative rather than static shielding meaning

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that yes they're effective at preventing the buildup of static electricity as

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they can't create or hold a charge but they will not protect your electronics

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from a direct static discharge like a

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shock from rubbing your feet around on the carpet also if you do remove some

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parts from your rig be sure to tie down any loose cables so they aren't banging

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around or scratching anything inside while they're flailing around but by

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this point you're probably thinking most system builders like main gear or origin

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pc obviously they don't remove all the components before shipping so how can we

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do what they do safely well you basically just need to stuff the inside

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of the system with enough material that nothing inside of it can shift

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so one thing that can help you do that is these expanding foam packs that once

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activated will expand to fill your particular case

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they're pretty cool but they're not the easiest to use and

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they're definitely not the cheapest option because most systems will require

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more than one of them alternatively you can scrounge for

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packing materials that that hit the hard drive

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alternatively you can scrounge around your house for any anti-static foam or

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bubble wrap or other packing materials it's certainly

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better than nothing another pro tip is to cut up something like a polyethylene

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pool noodle or take really nice packing materials like

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this that you can find and cut them up to size this was actually a super pro

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tip that we used to use at ncix where we'd kind of cut them to size and then

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wedge them in so that nothing could really move the idea is that even if the

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system gets drop kicked you don't want things shifting too much because once

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they gain momentum they can start to gain leverage and wrench things apart so

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for now we're done with the inside so if you're

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driving to your next lan packing up the inside plus attaching a

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neato carrying harness or something like that might be all that you need to do

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but if your pc is flying as checked luggage or getting shipped on its own

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you'll also need to protect the outside now the most common recommendation is to

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ship your pc in the box that the case came with it's the right size and you

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probably still have the original packing foam that came with it but there are a

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couple of things to keep in mind one is that this box was designed to

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protect a case not a case that was loaded up with an

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extra 15 to 25 pounds of components so

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it's definitely a good idea to put this box inside another box

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two if your case was shipped with soft foam

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like this that could be reusable but

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if it was shipped with a harder rigid style foam like this stuff

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it could have been spent by its original journey and like bike helmets this stuff

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is designed to take an impact not a bunch of impacts

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now we've got to solve our last problem you might have noticed in all of this

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that there's no room for the monitor so for that

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you'll either have to one use a different outer box a larger one

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although i don't necessarily recommend that because your monitor just banging

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around in there is not going to be a good time or two

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you'll have to ship it in a separate box and once again here we recommend using

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the original one wherever possible with the same caveat that depending on the

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type of foam that was used it might not have its original structural rigidity

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another fun option is a lot of these kinds of events actually have the option

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to rent a monitor when you get to your destination for example dreamhack and

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quakecon usually have both pcs and monitors for rent

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but that's not an option at ltx 2019 so

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if you're choosing one large box and you want to kind of pack everything in there

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the most important thing is to make sure that it's big enough for all of your

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stuff plus your padding but not so big that you're paying for

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unnecessary size and weight you also want to make sure that you have

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enough packing material because if there's any space for things to slide

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around just like with the inside of the pc

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you're going to have a pretty bad time now for the inside of an outer box you

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can use whatever cheapo packing material

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you can find crumpled up newspaper anything that you can pull out of the

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garbage that'll help absorb impacts without adding too much weight taping up

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your box you want to use two strips of packing tape across the opening two

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perpendicular to that and then a loop around the edge just for added stability

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repeat that on the other side and you're set now the big question

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do you write fragile this side up or

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computer on the side well

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it's probably not going to help you since most of the people who handle

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boxes are moving so fast that they don't have time to give your package any

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special treatment and much of the logistics chain is actually

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automated so that unsympathetic robots who can't read will likely be the ones

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giving your box most of the abuse it's worth a try

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