Your pc will be just at home sitting on a flat floor as it would on a flat desk.
Can you put a harddrive on carpet on the floor.
You can also lay carpet across a concrete floor whether it is a basement or ground level floor.
The anchoring nails on tack strips run about 3 4 inch long which is far too short to penetrate the old carpet plus a pad if the carpet has one and drive into the subfloor.
Choosing a particular carpet type requires consideration of the room s humidity levels because.
Before placing your pc on the floor be sure to think about airflow.
It can generate alot of heat like that and if can harm you pc and you can also destroy your computer if you walk across the carpet and generate static electricity on you body and you touch your pc you can fry you cpu a pc should always be on a desk with a plastic mat under workspace to prevent damage done to pc by static electricity.
By leaving a layer of carpet you make it that much harder to nail down the tack strips the long wooden strips around the perimeter with upward pointing spikes.
If you have the low pile variety here s an economical way to make yourself a great new floor without damaging.
Of course if you have short carpet on your floor the pc may be able to sit on that carpet with plenty of airflow underneath.