toshar
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I am moving to another country for long term, how should I move my pc with me? I have a good PC, so I want to take it with me instead of selling it. I have carried it along in my car in India but this time I will be flying and have thoughts to pack it within my luggage as I will be getting the 30kg weight slot in check-in.
I will ditch the cabinet for obvious weight/size reasons and willing to dissemble everything, pack them in bubble wrap decently and place them along with jeans & shirts. Thats it.
Accommodation is from my employers end and I have no idea whether they will give me a TV or not. If they do, I can skip my monitor, If they don't I can still skip monitor but have to purchase a new monitor there.
Questions I have :-
- If they provide a TV, Can I use it as full time monitor without damaging it (burn-in screen)?
- The Arabian Belt uses G type electrical sockets. Apart from the socket and prongs shape, any ill effect on my D type PSU? If so, I will skip the PSU as well and buy new there.
- I trust hardwires more then wireless. How about bringing 15m or so of LAN wire to connect my motherboard to the available LAN port? Or just bring RJ45 connector and the tool and arrange the wire there? The other weight saving best alternative is the 5 gram wifi dongle (Tenda M311mi N150) which I already have.
- Where will I mount the hardware since I won't carry my cabinet. What are the best available options do I have?
The cheapest but not the cleanest thing I can do is to put cpu cooler and gpu on motherboard and put it inside a cardboad box with the open hood OR Wall Mount everything. Or make a DIY transparent Acrylic base to screw the MB on it and HDD under it, Kindoff PSU on bottom. HDD/SSD in between and MB/GPU on Top, all in stack.
Request you all to please suggest and advice here for the improvement.
Weight of the items below :-
I am moving to another country for long term, how should I move my pc with me? I have a good PC, so I want to take it with me instead of selling it. I have carried it along in my car in India but this time I will be flying and have thoughts to pack it within my luggage as I will be getting the 30kg weight slot in check-in.
I will ditch the cabinet for obvious weight/size reasons and willing to dissemble everything, pack them in bubble wrap decently and place them along with jeans & shirts. Thats it.
Accommodation is from my employers end and I have no idea whether they will give me a TV or not. If they do, I can skip my monitor, If they don't I can still skip monitor but have to purchase a new monitor there.
Questions I have :-
- If they provide a TV, Can I use it as full time monitor without damaging it (burn-in screen)?
- The Arabian Belt uses G type electrical sockets. Apart from the socket and prongs shape, any ill effect on my D type PSU? If so, I will skip the PSU as well and buy new there.
- I trust hardwires more then wireless. How about bringing 15m or so of LAN wire to connect my motherboard to the available LAN port? Or just bring RJ45 connector and the tool and arrange the wire there? The other weight saving best alternative is the 5 gram wifi dongle (Tenda M311mi N150) which I already have.
- Where will I mount the hardware since I won't carry my cabinet. What are the best available options do I have?
The cheapest but not the cleanest thing I can do is to put cpu cooler and gpu on motherboard and put it inside a cardboad box with the open hood OR Wall Mount everything. Or make a DIY transparent Acrylic base to screw the MB on it and HDD under it, Kindoff PSU on bottom. HDD/SSD in between and MB/GPU on Top, all in stack.
Request you all to please suggest and advice here for the improvement.
Weight of the items below :-
Item | Model | Weight in Grams | Remarks |
Processor | Intel i7 4770 | 27 | Mandate |
Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-H81M-S (Micro ATX) | 350 | |
RAM | Kingston HyperX DDR3 x 2 | 80 | |
PSU | Cooler Master Thunder 500w | 780 | |
SSD | Ant Esports 690 Neo Sata 2.5" 128 GB SSD | 75 | |
Cable | Sata, LAN, HDMI Cable + etc items | 150 | |
GPU | Sapphire PULSE RX 570 | 600 | |
CPU Cooler | Cooler Master Hyper 212x | 660 | Tower Cooler. Can be replaced by stock cooler |
HDD | WD Blue 2 TB x 2 HDD | 1200 | Can opt in for 1 HDD only |
Monitor | LG 25UM58 Ultra Wide 21:9 | 3900 | Have to check whether I will be getting TV there |
Keyboard Mouse | Redgear Manta 2.1 | 1400 | Can replace it with Logi MK345 Wireless kit |