Relocating to UAE

[toshar]

Hi All

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

 

[Nerevarine]

Ditch the PC. Trust me. Its an absolute pain to carry even regular luggage cross country, a PC will be insanely difficult.

Get a laptop.

 

[Zangetsu]

Three options:

1. Use Courier service (they will charge you as per weight) so that you can have free legroom in your flight
2. Assemble new PC in UAE. I guess it will be cheaper there compared to India.
3. Buy a new Laptop.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

2. Assemble new PC in UAE. I guess it will be cheaper there compared to India.
3. Buy a new Laptop.

These are the apt options. OP's PC is old enough to not be carried abroad. I won't consider transporting a monitor in checked-in luggage given how they handle it.

 

[Desmond]

I agree that it's best to ditch the PC for less hassle.

 

[omega44-xt]

IF there was an ongoing silicon shortage, might have been worth taking some parts. But with those specs, my old laptop with i7 8750H + 2060 will outperform it. So sell the PC here & maybe buy a gaming laptop with RTX 3050/3060 there or build a new PC there.

I will say it is a big hassle to carry parts, so don't think about it.

If you are looking to not spend money, take parts except monitor & cabinet, maybe even PSU. Get new monitor & cabinet there & reassemble there.

 

[toshar]

@omega44-xt @Desmond @SaiyanGoku @Zangetsu @Nerevarine

Update

I was able to relocate along with my PC. I left the case and monitor in India and packed everything in Tshirt, towel, cloths for damping jerks during transit.
I use to be the flight engineer of the 787 aircraft which I had my seat in, so greeted and told my old staff to keep extra care of my suitcase and place it with DG items in tail section, which they did (I felt blessed that things I worked for in past came out helping me then - Good Karma? May be)
Here I bought a cheap yet very good case (Xigmatech Gaming X) for 150 Riayls (3200 INR) and bought a used ROG strix 1070ti 8 Gigs GPU for very cheap price - to provide GRAM margin in games, a 24" monitor.
Now relocating back to India permanently (There's literally something about India, its a very rich) and selling my system here for 2000 Riyals (~45k) as now I am looking for a comparable laptop.
All in All, it was not that difficult carrying computer items to other country. Surprisingly there are many asian expats doing the same.
I could have sold my PC there in India but I had emotional values with it, hence carried it along which surprised all booring other employees here. Because of only 10% workload of that of Indian office, I enjoyed most of my time playing most of the old tiltes games again. Mafia, GTA 4 and COD especially.