Transporting my CPU via Car

[Phenom316]

Hello, good day! I would like to ask for an advise. I will bring my PC (CPU only) to my girlfriends house, It is 30-45 minutes drive (depends on traffic) we want to play some games. Here is the scenario, on friday morning, I will go to office with my desktop (30-45 mins drive) and I will park it on the basement. Then i will work for 8-9 hours. Then after shift, on Friday evening i will go straight to my Girlfriends house with my CPU (15 minutes drive from our office) Now my question is it safe to leave the CPU in the car for 8-9 hours? (Knowing it is park in the basement and not in open parking.) And also im planning to put it at the back seat with some soft cloth or pillow for support. Would that be okay? Or any advise? Im just concern about the harddrive , memory and graphics card. Thank you.


PS. Sorry for my bad english

 

[getochkn]

Well temps will be one thing. How hot or cold will it get in there during the day and what kind of shifts would it be subject too?

The biggest thing that gets moved a lot during transport is either the heatsink if you have some big monster 5LB's of metal air cooler on there, or the GPU. It shifts a bit and comes loose out of the socket or bends the PCI-E socket a bit. If your GPU has two screw holes because it's a double slot, or 3, then make sure to use all screw holes.

 

[Adrian Ocampo]

Just to set things straight, CPU is the Processor so to avoid confusion, lets just define it as the PC. Leaving it in the car would not be a problem, as long as your car is stationary, which i hope it should be as it is a parking lot. I have been traveling with my PC for so long and so far I have not encountered any issues what so ever. I even drove it on a highway. The best thing to do is to place it on a stable part of the car. You can place it at the back seat flat down. Just dont step on the break too bad that it would fall. If you want to be sure, the most fragile component in your PC is your drives. You can remove them and just place it back afterwards.

 

[USAFRet]

Let it come up or down to room temp before you turn it on.