Best way to post a cpu if you don’t have the clamshell?

As title says, selling an old CPU but I don’t have the clamshell to protect it so what’s the best way some of you guys have posted CPU’s before to keep them protected?

 

People have sent me their CPU's wrapped up in the anti static bag GPU's come with inside a padded box.

Your local PC shop will surely have some laying about they might give to you if you ask nicely.

You can also buy the clam shells or generic blister packs on eBay if it's a regular thing or you're anal about protection.

 

does it have pins or contacts?

 

Roll it in Bubble wrap. Pink, antistatic. Tape it up tight. Then chuck it into a satchel.

Shipped hundreds like this with no issues.

 

for LGA CPUs I just wrap it in an anti static bag then send it in a CD Mailer.

 

Usually can just use materials lying around like bubble wrap, foam, polystyrene, etc.

 

Pls don't use normal bubble wrap, or polystyrene.. At the lesst, not directly on the cpu

If you cant find any pink bubble wrap. Try and find an antiststic bag of some sort to put it in before wrapping with normal stuff.

 

Ive used a cleaning sponge once. Taped it to the processor and it did fine.

Ive had them sent to me wrapped in cardboard towels and even toilet paper of all things lol.

 

Never use normal bubble wrap, polystyrene foam directly on the CPU, it can kill the CPU through static discharge and I've seen it happen more times than I can remember. Anti-static ESD safe packaging includes anti-static bags and pink anti static zip lock bags. If you're concerned about the contact beneath the CPU (i.e. an Intel one) without pins and don't have the original clam shell, a single ply of tissue folded to the shape of the CPU, put it underneath then wrap it in an anti-static bag.

 

Foam for the cpu pins and the rest of what I mentioned for the surrounding packaging. I've sent many many MANY cpu's in the past and never had an issue once.

 

If there's one PC part I'm paranoid about and that's CPU's. I traded an FX CPU with a mate the other week, I put mine in a container layered with the foam sheet and lightly wrapped it. When we did the trade, he comes out and drops his CPU pins down on the bench, inside I panicked lol

GPUs, RAM and motherboards get flung around like frisbees though lol

 

About a year ago I received a $400 CPU (5930k) from eBay in a plastic credit card sleeve . In a standard envelope. Was pretty pissed off. Thankfully the CPU worked perfectly

 

What's that? Like a clear sleeve you might find in a wallet?

 

A thin bit of flexible plastic sleeve you could protect a business card / credit card from being scratched