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okay guys I'm gonna do a video about something I've never done before um 1100 videos or something like that on this channel and I've never done a video about how to pack and protect your system I get emails all the time people telling me hey I'm going off to college and I gotta my PC or hey I'm going overseas or I'm I'm moving I need to protect my PC how can I do that well this is the system I showed you guys a few videos back that I built for my driving instructor and it's got to make its way all the way to Illinois and hopefully today if I do this right it'll survive the trip vengeance RGB pro ddr4 memory from Corsair features optimize peak performance for both the latest Intel and AMD based ddr4 motherboards to learn how to bring your computer memory to the next level click the link in the description below so we have a few challenges with this system one we have a tempered glass side panel so obviously we want to protect that we are going to be shipping it in its case box as you can see by the wave effect this has already been handled with care by your friendly neighborhood courier service we're gonna be doing a box in a box the nice thing about this though was even though when coolermaster sent us this case it had these nice dense corner pieces on here so that's gonna help we're gonna we're gonna be taping these back on I know you probably won't have these unless they came with your box this is a hard sell foam so it's not soft and squishy so we can't really count on the foam to necessarily absorb a lot of the drop impact it's gonna have now yes you can put things like fragile on the box if you're shipping it you know what fragile means over a fence or something we're gonna be utilizing something today that I got off of Amazon this is insta pack this is the stuff that you saw us show at our NZXT video where you put it out and you snap it and it pops and then you gotta you gotta play the bongos on it and then it starts to expand so we'll be using that to protect our internals one thing you can do if you are confident with this or you're shipping it to someone who is able to do this or you doing it yourself the easiest thing to do is going to be to remove the cooler especially if it took an air tower like it like a yo cooling heatsink and the GPU those are the two things that are gonna be most likely damaged because once it's upright like this you've got all the pressure of the the the thing that makes the Vidia happen pushing down on the system pulling on the motherboard and the same thing with the tower or the cooling tower now fortunately because we have a water cooler in here there's not really any weight or any leverage being pulled on the CPU socket this is a big heavy graphics card I went with the zotac amp extreme because he is gonna be doing VR racing and stuff and I wanted to give him a good VR experience we I went with that unfortunately because the card is so big and heavy and already has some sag Emelia all I did was set it down you see that look watch do the card now how is this gonna survive a trip well that's where the insta pad comes in because it expands it is gonna fill the void we're gonna be using the insta pack to push it down and as we push it down right here it's gonna start to expand and it doesn't push against thing it just goes oh there's resistance and goes around it so we're gonna basically form a cocoon around the graphics card which we're then gonna put the side panel on and squish it down so it goes down and protects the graphics card the graphics card won't be able to move that's really the only thing we have to protect in here okay so this side down always wear eye protection Oh once the bag starts to expand it will become very warm and release steam oh it's getting warm oh there goes you will hear another pop what pack immediately I know I see it it's getting hot whoa that's hot holy crap oh no it's backwards Oh me wait we got this why was I feel like that was harder than it needed to be okay well alright so that parts done you could take a lot less risk with your system if you're shipping it to yourself free shipping to someone that can reinstall their own graphics card then there you go but you know I figured if these system builders if the system builders you know are sending off these systems all day long like this there's no reason why I can't either Phil loves that sound okay so I've still got some leftover foam and stuff that we're gonna use to sort of you know protect the tempered glass on the side of the case I just want to be over cautious right we that's what we want to do I almost feel like this thing deserves a drop test to see if it is gonna survive okay I mean if I can't survive that it's not gonna survive a trip in a browner white and purple truck so the nice thing about these things is they allow the case corners or the corner of the box to become a lot stronger so I could take the impact it's usually the corners of a package that become damaged okay so we went ahead and decided if we're gonna do this video we need to do it right so we ran to the hardware store and we picked up packing materials I feel like yeah I feel like this needs a pole that this is going through because I can't hold the two things on the end that let it like rotates now I said box in a box so this box is gonna get packed in that box but we need to put padding around here for that and to do that we bought this stuff now some people might look at this and be like 50 bucks for packing material what the heck we also got to ask yourself how much is your computer and how much are you willing to spend to protect it so now I'm gonna basically do the same thing on all four sides of our package the box is all like smooshing out of the side so there we go we're just gonna close this up put a whole bunch of tape and then we are going to saran wrap the outside of this box as well we need like one of those things they have it like warehouses where it just goes on a spinning pallet and that's how you pack a computer if you can't survive that it will make it to Illinois so as you guys saw we used insta pack for 10 bucks or so off of Amazon the saran wrap us 24 bucks from Lowe's and then it was a like another 18 or so 20 bucks for the bubble wrap we got two of them but like I said I'm moving and I needed the bubble wrap and the saran wrap for other stuff so about 50 bucks worth of packing material you can hopefully ship your package safe and sound the insta pack to hold the guts of the computer in place the foam that came with the case box that it's packed in foam shoved down in there to protect the sides of it then it put inside of another box with saran or not ceramic up a bubble wrap all around that and of course saran wrap around the main box all kinds of bubble wrap enough to where it's actually bulging out but not enough to actually cause it to push down on the Box on the inside and then that saran wrap to hold everything together not to mention the the stiff corner pieces we have on the inside box yeah this should hopefully make it to Illinois in one piece in fact once you guys do me a favor following on twitter and instagram at JS to sense it both and i'll do a follow up when this arrives its destination let you know whether or not it survived i'll even ask for some pictures from stephen before he unbox it to see what it looks like when it gets there this is the worst time of year to ship something and to get it handled with care because you're also dealing with a bunch of brand new unseasoned part time box runners basically the person that's hired to go from the truck to the door and just run and throw it at the customer and run back to the truck while the driver is in there organizing the next packages yeah I've worked a few peak seasons those of you that are couriers out there know exactly what I'm talking about long days 16 hours plus and yeah it should hopefully survive that aspect alright well there you go you guys are asking me all the time how to ship a computer that's the method I use if you do something different and you consider it safe put it down in the comments below and helped everyone out as always guys thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one I'm serious follow on Twitter and Instagram so you can see if it survived subscribe