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excellent what's up guys welcome back to pulsar bird today's video I'm going to be doing a tutorial on how to ship a desktop computer because that is what I need to do and I've done this actually quite a few times before maybe you guys have to but whether you need to ship something to yourself if you're moving or maybe you've done to pay it forward build that you need to get from point A to point B whether you need to ship to a different state or across the country there are a few basic best practices for shipping a desktop computer so I'm going to walk you through those today I'm also of course going to be packing up my 500 thousand subscriber giveaway RGB system back here at the same time so if you already know all this stuff then maybe you can still watch and get a few tips if not then at least this is a reminder to you guys that this system is still up for grabs I'm packing it up right now but the giveaway is still ongoing it's open until Saturday so I'll post again the link in the description if you guys want to enter that and lucky winner will be chosen within a couple days after the giveaway period ends and then I'm going to be shipping this in these states that you will hopefully see it in at the end of this video it's all that said let's get right to it okay I've just realized this doesn't look great without the backlighting oh yeah that's much better okay so first things first since I have used this system a little bit I have a couple logins going on in it and stuff I was using this to do a bit of live streaming I do want to clear it out as best as I can so my plan is to do a secure ace on the SSD I do want to run a backup on here first if you are handing down a system or something like that you obviously want to make sure that you get anything off of it that you might need beforehand so I got a couple folders here and I plugged in an external drives it's just hanging out right there this is this is a very advanced technique here I'm dragging and dropping there we go and then the last thing of course is I knew do need to activate Windows I need to purchase a Windows license so for all of these people who have asked me hey Paul does the King Wednesday thing still work I haven't read in a couple months but I'm going to try it again so let you know the meantime I think I have everything necessary copied so let's jump into the UEFI and see if I can get that secure race going you vfi on a widescreen is it's really wide okay cool one of the things that Asus has been just included as part of their UEFI and their BIOS I don't know when they started doing this but as a few years back when SSDs became popular they included a secure erase function that's part of the UEFI that's a great way to do it because it's pre-boot so you're going to make sure it's completely securely erased and then we have the drives that are connected currently it's just this just the SATA drive so I can't use it on the dang it give me a second Lee for your design so the reason I wanted to do the secure race from the UEFI is if I boot it onto the system off of the SSD you can't secure erase that drive when you've put it off of it into Windows so fortunately I do have another option from Toshiba since this is an OCD Toshiba Drive they have a SSD utility I will need to create a USB Drive to boot from with the utility which they have available boots through their downloads page and then I can boot from that and then hopefully secure erase the drive press now I take our fancy new bootable USB drives and it was plug it in rotary and now we must boot from it okay it didn't work the first time I'm thinking maybe it's because I was in UEFI mode let's do student on UEFI mode look safe mode hot safe mode I like to live dangerously okay now I'm not in safe mode didn't do much baby what happened keeps giving me these ellipses and then my computer just turns off okay like that you know I feel like it's not supposed to do that this time I am doing safe mode damn you and it is what do you mean what are you trying to tell me success safe mode has gotten this to boot into this utility environment properly so that's good got our SSD recognized there I've learned apparently that it's only connecting to a 2 by 8 Giga transfers per second connection PCI gen3 by 2 instead of by 4 probably can update that setting in the UEFI okay I've discovered it and I promise I'm going to stop pointing a camera at a computer screen in a minute that's under maintenance and then tools and then we have secured a function right here and hit erase confirm that all my data will be gone and there goes ok that completed successfully and I wanted to also point out in case any of you guys are watching this video and actually using it as a tutorial and you're looking at this and saying well Paul I have a hard drive like mechanical one like this I'll be honest my recommendation for most people if you are passing on a system that has a mechanical hard drive in it or you just have McKenna mechanical hard drive that has sensitive data I do not hand these down to other people I just take it out of the other out of machine I keep it I keep all my hard drives it's very difficult to permanently erase data off of these without completely destroying the disk inside so I would definitely recommend if you're passing down a system that has a mechanical drive into it in it maybe just consider just popping that drive out and purchasing a new like just an inexpensive SSD or a different mechanical drive to install windows onto and go about that route because I will never tell you yes here is how you can permanently delete all the data off of a hard drive because it's really hard to do all that said let's I'm going to get windows installing back onto my Rd 400 on there and I can actually I think move over to actually starting to pack this thing up quick aside here since I pointed out that my SSD wasn't in the right configuration I have found that here in the Vice end up to PCIe bandwidth configuration set 2x2 and bumping that 2x4 right now and then I will save this in the overclocking profile which I had saved right here so whoever gets this can easily just punch this in for 4.8 gigahertz overclock they see if you might be able to go but beyond that too but I'll leave that to whoever the lucky winner might be and the meantime save this here is 4.8 to give the profile to let's just get that Windows installation going any second there it goes and now we can move on to everything else that we need so to get my packing up done I have some packing tape of course at a box cutter right there and then probably the most important thing for shipping a computer is going to be the box that the case came in this is a very good reason to keep computer case boxes because whereas I will usually get rid of all the other boxes for a build the case box I will try to hang on to this is also a good reason why if you're doing like a review of a case because cases and not just the case which might cost like you know 150 to you know down to 50 bucks or so it needs to be kept safe by the box but you might put an entire system in there worth you know set thousand to three thousand dollars and then the Box now needs to keep all that stuff safe too that's why it's a good idea to make sure we got at least decent quality internals and fantex uses they don't use the closed cell foam it's not quite as nice but it's funny thick you got at least a couple inches thickness on either side else will still have a plastic to put over the system to keep it nice and clean in there especially with the tempered glass pieces and then not only do I have this box which is also double boxed which is nice but I have this box too thankfully this is a box from AMD risin 5 stuff that just arrived because I will be shipping 2 boxes system goes in here without much else and then everything else is going to go in here everything else includes parts I'll be removing which is the graphics card mainly I guess mainly just a graphics card but then all these other retail boxes because if I'm shipping a full system I'd like everyone to have as close to the retail experience as they can so here you can also get an idea if you're not already aware of everything that's inside so the retail box for the 7700 K box that just recently so I wouldn't be sending an engineering sample the crack in X 62 of course keeping everything nice and clean the g.skill trident z r gb memory kits in there they have thankfully already sent me a replacement for this so I will not be going RGB lists from the memory side of things max miss 9 here oh of course and then the GTX 1080 Strix Edition also from Asus I have the accessory box for them to evolve the chance of some kits in there like the pump mount and some other things that the winner might want to hang on to if they decide to maybe upgrade this to water cooling or something in the future and then of course the OC grd 400 box that also has a riser card in it I mean not necessary right now but you never know in the future and then of course we have the replacements sleeved cable kit for the power supply and the power supply box itself so winter is going to have plenty of cables because they're not only going to have the replacement kit here they're going to have all the original cables from the supernova 750 g2 as well so basically here's the plan I'm going to pull out well once once Windows is installed we'll get to that and we'll activate it and everything as well but once that's done I'm going to pull the graphics card out because you never want to ship a graphics card inside a system like this it's just a really bad idea you want to pull that out because basically you have to assume that this system in this box is going to be tossed it's going to be tossed around it'll land on whatever site it happens to land on so you're going to have torque and just like impacts going on that a hanging graphics card there in the system might not necessarily be able to withstand so definitely pulling the GPU out is going to tie extra cables just off to the side so they can't be looser in there banging around and stuff everything else should be ok that's one of the nice thing about closed-loop coolers looking coolers like this and in fact a big reason why a lot of the boutique manufacturers like CyberPower and those kind of people actually like installing these because it's a lot easier to ship this the radiator is much more secure and there's not a bunch of weight on the CPU block like you'd have with an air cooler so you can ship it as is so the GPU is the main thing I'm concerned about everything else I should be able to leave in there and just pack up the accessories and then one final note again for folks who might be shipping a system that has a hard drive installed I usually pull hard drives out as well and put them in a separate box and ship them separately if I can now that's not a hundred percent you do have hard drive mounted due to a pretty good job but especially if you have mounts like this one this one is actually not terrible this is a fan text1 but did I believe this is from the enthu Pro this is plastic though it's a little flexible and a drive sitting in a tray like that can get bounced around in a system and I've seen them come where the drive is just completely topped off the rails and the drive itself is hanging out it has been banged around pretty badly and you don't want that to happen within Mechanical dress so I definitely recommend if you are shipping a mechanical drive pull it out of the system pack it somewhere else separately and keep it safe for the journey Windows is all installed so that's good and next I'm going to see if I can activate I'm not going to show you guys this part because I want to show you the key but all these nuts let's see if it works Windows is activated that's actually a key that I purchased about a year ago to like almost literally one year ago and it still works so that's good well guys it looks like the system is pretty much all set up as far as what needs to be done with the software windows updates is all good to go when does is installed I've installed nothing beyond basic drivers windows updates and I did the ORA software in the NZXT cam so I could plug back in my spring time color scheme which which I think looks lovely especially right next to my Yosemite Valley background and look no more activation notice info in the corner so I think I think this is like wrapping it up I just I don't know I mean I guess it's all left to do is say goodbye Oh there is guys my two packages are packed up and ready for shipping all I need is winter of course so if you guys still haven't entered the giveaway is open through Saturday so link is in the description for that and all the details for the giveaway whether you're in North America or international or in my original giveaway video and also swingset as well so if you're watching this video I hope you're at least excited about the potential for the giveaway if not maybe you've learned a little bit about some of the nuances of shipping a full desktop computer that's completely built because there are a few details that you should pay attention to to avoid damage during shipping now I'm gonna have a blank space here in the corner so sometimes going to have to build another computer to go there so stay tuned for that and of course hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video thank you so much for watching though guys and we'll see you next time