I use my desktop for everything but my college is far from home, laptop for breaks?

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<p>I'm a pretty big gamer but I game on my desktop. Naturally I am taking it with me to college. For my birthday I was given a galaxy tab 10.1 as a laptop replacement which i honestly prefer to a laptop.
I use my desktop for everything and have invested a ton of money into it. I plan to use it as a tv, media hub, etc.</p>

<p>The problem is this:
When I come home during breaks ( I live in Kentucky and my college is in New York) I'm afraid that shipping my desktop, monitor, speakers, etc back and forth will be extremely expensive. Not only that but I'm afraid something can happen while it is being shipped. </p>

<p>Does anyone have a experience like this? I literally cannot live without my desktop. What do you guys think I should do? I could get a laptop which would be completely unnecessary since I have the tablet (we can't return the tablet since its past the return date) and it wouldn't be anywhere near as powerful as my pc since I'm not willing to invest them money. </p>

<p>Do you guys think its worth it to not get laptop and just ship my desktop back and forth or am I putting myself into too much financial stress and my desktop into too much danger from shipping?</p>

<p>Anyone with a experience like this?</p>

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<p>You can remove components from the desktop that might move around during shipping (like video cards or CPU heatsinks), and put them back together afterwards.</p>

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<p>aldfig thats something I absolutely considered. What do you suppose would be the best method of shipping? put it on the plane or have UPS ship through ground?</p>

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<p>I have never shipped an entire computer before but I have sent individual parts before via UPS. As long as you wrap up parts nicely (antistatic bag, bubblewrap, etc.), they’ll be fine. I would remove parts that might move (like the ones I mentioned in my previous post) and put them in a separate box. It might be annoying if you have watercooling (leaving the tubing and CPU block inside should be fine (drained of course) but not the GPU block).</p>

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<p>Thank you aldfig.
Any more advice would be appreciated</p>