Originally Posted by
pWei
The side padding seems thin and might be inadequate to protect your components. Also, do they move around when packed? They should be padded at the sides and fit snugly - travel should be as minimal as possible.
You might want to put some filler in your SFF cases as well. Make sure that things inside can't really move even if they are not mounted. Don't know what heatsink you use, but that's one thing that's most likely to come off, particularly if it's using plastic clips. A flying heatsink inside the SFF would likely cause a good amount of damage.
P.S. I will be sure to avoid pelican cases in the future; from your description, they seem rather ill suited to the rigors of shipping.
Yes, the side padding isn't as much as I would like but to copensate I have the monitors strapped to the thin board. The board is a very tight fit and has the foam tape on both sides to give some protection.
When the cases are closed everything is super tight. Nothing can move around at all.
Good idea to stuff them, I would have liked to have an H50 in them since they have such a solid mount and low mass but, the liquid may be a problem. Since the systems aren't overclocked I'm using the stock Intel heatsinks which is very light (it's the half height Intel) but uses plastic clips.
BTW The suit cases are made by APE Case, I think the Pelican 1510 would be a much better carry-on and is designed for the purpose. I didn't use the Pelican because its only 11" tall inside, so I would have had to get a smaller monitor.
Here is a pic of the internals minus the video card. I put a 6850 in each of them but Might change it out to a 6970.
