nervous about moving my P.C

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well I am moving but I am concerned about moving the pc, I am thinking if its secure in the vehicle metal side down on the seat and glass pannel up with nothing sitting on it aside from a blanket or two to protect it from if boxes shift, like does that seem safe enough?

It's a rather pricey gaming P.C, so I just don't want to end up damaging it in the move. So, if any of you have advice on moving a gaming p.c or if I am being too worried, I'd be glad to hear it.

^^^ This is how I prefer to transport my own personal gaming PCs, and generally recommend this method to others as well.

If it's in a back seat I'd put it behind the passenger seat and move the front seat back to pin the case from sliding forward. If it's in the front passenger seat, I'd move that seat forward to try to pin it against the dash / knee area, also to keep it from sliding forward.

Laying it flat like that takes a lot of stress off of any large tower coolers or large GPUs inside the case, and keeps them pressed together. Given that yours is a gaming PC, there's a good change it has a large GPU at the least, and a good chance of a larger tower cooler as well, unless it's liquid cooled.

Also reduces the chance of it tipping over if you lay it flat like that - always clear panel up / motherboard on the bottom.

IMO it'll be safe enough, just make sure it won't fly in trunk

if it is bumpy maybe removing the glass from the case and wrapping it up in protection like towels or something and having the metal bit / back facing downwards or on the floor.

As long as all the cards have their backplane screws tight enough and the drives are secure in their cages it shouldn't matter much which way up you transport it, although I'd prefer the motherboard down. (Motherboard upside down would allow gravity and repeated shock to try and unplug the heavier cards, although those are usually anchored front and back)
I'd also be wary of liquid cooling systems anchor points.
If I have a system fail after transport it's usually a combination of contact oxidation and card movement which comes good after reseating the cards and/or using a pencil eraser on the contacts.

Perhaps you could put the system inside a crate & use packaging or cloth to fill in the extra space Some systems are probably more sturdy than others. My system is like 15 years old & I've been very rough with it at times(unintentionally) & it held out OK. It's a home version of a server computer so very high performance when I bought it.

Computers are pretty sturdy in overall. I say it as one who transports PCs in hands between two homes that are kilometer apart, from USFFs to big towers, heh
My SFF is lugged the most in bigger backpack, so it exposed to a lot of shocks yet it works as should. Albeit it has no expansion cards and it's size is what makes it pretty sturdy


What kind of hardware is that (I mean, model / serie)?