Best and cheapest method to ship a CPU?

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imhungry

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Shipping a completely built computer.

Raidmax RX-9 SE case, I think it's mid-size ATX tower.

With everything in it, I'm guessing it'll come to 30lbs or less?


Should I go Fedex with this? According the the calculator on the site, it will cost almost $90!

Someone shipped a monitor to my house and the price was $45 shipped, and the monitor is definately heavier than the computer will be fully built.

Thoughts? [USPS won't do this large a package, so only Fedex and UPS are doable]

I also need to know how large the box would have to be. 30x30x30 I'm guessing?
 
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AMDMaddness

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umm so your gonna compete with AMD and Intel now? I wanna see your benches! heh It drives me nuts when people call computers CPU'S!!!

Find the box the case came in and use that then double box it. last time I mailed a computer via fedex ground it was $13 and change took 2 days it was a fully built A64 system in a coolermaster case.
 
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Mermaidman

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How heavy is the heatsink? I shipped a computer once with a big-ass copper heatsink. It came loose and played pinball inside the case! Luckily the only thing that did not work was the CPU fan . . . Next time I ship a computer, I would send it without an installed heatsink.
 
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hjo3

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Wow... the only person I'd heard call computers "CPUs" till now was my grandma. She's 75, what's your excuse?
 
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Good Bye

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Yea my teacher once called the PC a Hard Drive. Like the whole computer she called a HDD. It drove me so nuts and shes like, my husband has worked at Paxar for 15 yrs if you want to take it up with him you can. I should have said yes. I just said it was a single componet and she said, No its not. Oh well. I shouldn't lose sleep over something like this and yet a still do.
 
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ts3433

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Originally posted by: Raiden256
Yeah...um... I really wouldn't want a computer built by a guy who called it a CPU.
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Let alone by someone who used a Raidmax case (and possibly PSU)...
 
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RGN

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Don't ever call a 'computer' a 'CPU' again. Don't call it a 'hard drive' either. Its a 'computer' a system of components that includes a 'cpu' and a hard drive'

n00b
 
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thescreensavers

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NOOB CPUS are the thing inside a computer, if its a stock heatsink then leave it on, if its big heatsink I Sugest u take it off.
 
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Cdubneeddeal

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Originally posted by: imhungry
Shipping a completely built computer.

Raidmax RX-9 SE case, I think it's mid-size ATX tower.

With everything in it, I'm guessing it'll come to 30lbs or less?


Should I go Fedex with this? According the the calculator on the site, it will cost almost $90!

Someone shipped a monitor to my house and the price was $45 shipped, and the monitor is definately heavier than the computer will be fully built.

Thoughts? [USPS won't do this large a package, so only Fedex and UPS are doable]

I also need to know how large the box would have to be. 30x30x30 I'm guessing?
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Ok. Here's a real reply. If it's just the tower I think 24x24x12 should do. However, if you don't have the proper padding, do not attempt to ship it. Bubble wrap alone will not cut it. You'll need either Hexacomb or 1" styrofoam. If you don't know what you're doing, take it to someone that does. Sounds like to me you're asking for an unhappy buyer. And by all means, package the HS, Video Card, Hard Drive, and anything else removable seperately and highly advised, in it's own box overpacked.
 
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EyeMWing

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You should have kept the box and shipping materials the case came in. They're overbuilt to be reused to ship a completed machine in.
 
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