Drunken Monkey
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So let's start from the beginning, so a while ago the other day last year, i decided to order a computer. Wanting to try something different from my old supplier beastcomputers i looked around at all the various options available to me. Initially i was attracted to four, then unknown (to me), companies. After reading reviews and the personal opinions of customers, i eventually eliminated two straight away... Mesh and Novatech. Mesh because a close mate who brought an expensive rig from them, reffered me to a youtube video of a dog throwing up... so yeah.... Novatech although having heard that there customer service was excellent and had equally good warranty options, did not have the option to custom build... And although their sales team were very helpful and told me that they could get the rig i wanted i was in a bit of a hurry to get my hands on a pc and didn't want to wait long.
That leads me to my final two choices, computerplanet and pcspecialist, both seem to genuinely good, but pcspecialist had better reviews and a better warrantly so yeah...
i decided to go with PCSpecialist.co.uk.
So it was the 22nd of december, i woke up by the blaze of sunlight hitting my face, through the tiny crevices in my curtains. I turned on my computer... waited ten minutes (probably made some tea, maybe toast... it was last year i have a memory of a goldfish with one leg...? stapled to someones pc ahem )
ahem. My budget was £1000 (lol so much for that) i ended up spending closer to 2k
Write windows has finally fragging loaded, time to load explorer (so yeah had time to have a shower) so once EVERYTHING HAD FINALLY LOADED... i was finally on WWW.PCSPECIALIST.CO.UK
Okay time to order, boy did i have a lot of options given to me, everything laid out beautiful... i felt like a kid in a candy store, a kid in a candy store who didnt know what to spend his money on...
oh whats this they have forums.... HELL YES...
"hi, my names korey i wanna get a pc, HELP (probably went something long those lines)
Now this is when i realised that PCspecialist was in a league of it's on, the help i got on these forums were phenomenal, honestly some of the nicest people and most helpful people i've come across.
So yeah anyways i eventually came up with this spec
Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-950 (3.06GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Motherboard
:ASUS® RAMPAGE III EXTREME: 3-Way SLI & CrossFireX, SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM)
6GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (3 x 2GB KIT)
Graphics Card
1536MB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX580 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DirectX® 11, 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB Intel® X25-M 2.5" SSD (34nm / upto 250MB/sR | 100MB/sW)***SPECIAL***
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
3rd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W PRO SERIES GOLD (AX1200) 80+ MODULAR PSU (£209)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Firewire & Video Editing
1 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 13 working days
Now here's the production dates for my Pc.
Processed Date
22-12-2010
Pre-Production Date
23-12-2010
Build Date
06-01-2011
Test Date
19-01-2011
QC Date
19-01-2011
Awaiting Dispatch Date
20-01-2011
Dispatch Date
20-01-2011
The time it took for my pc to be ready for dispatch was a bit longer than i expected... But then again i ordered during the busiest times of the year... So i'll say lets take it from the 4th to the 20th... to be reasonal... But i guess they suffered from supply shortages... which let's face it, isn't really their fault... STOP BUYING SO MUCH ^.^
so anyways during this time i got maybe a tad impatience i amended my order, and then again... then again... and there was a moment where insanity in the form of DSN got the better of me and nearly convinced me to cancel my order and start again with the amazingly fast SANDY BRIDGE PROCESSORS!!!!
so it got despatched on the 20th and got here at 10am on the 21st.... DAMN thats quick...
So i come home from work and a massive box is sitting in my room, what could this be i wondered... i looked at the little sticker and i had a twinkling that it was my NEW PC wooooooooooooo... so i opened it and looked inside... OMG MY VERY OWN WELCOME PACK... seriously it felt good just to see it, (i've spent quite a bit of time watching the unboxing video's online and well, once ur pc arrives you'll know what im talking about)...
Btw it was beautifully packaged, Anthony Cunliffe hats off to, the thing couldnt move with all that packaging, you should be incharge of prisons...
anyways
OH WAIT... i forgot to thank somepeople so in no particular order... a special thanks to the following people:
-Andrew Vincent
-Garnet Heller
-Craig Whiteley
-Anthony Cunliffe
-John Mellor
-PCS
-DSN
-Sleinous
-TOM DWC
-BG92
- AND THE PC SPECIALIST SALES TEAM and ONLINE SUPPORT
you guys are the real heroes!!!
SO i unboxed everything and set my pc up in the most awkward place i could find so i had no access to or couldnt even view the awesome see through panel... dammnit...
Okay now to put my case stickers on... hmmm where could they be .... Oh yeah i havent opened my welcome pack...
Oh here they are... yeah a sdd one woooo, yay a corsair powered by one woooo, yay a windows 7 one wooo...
...
.......
.......... is that it :'( BUT I LOVE STICKERS ... I REALLY DO
okay lets just turn this bad boy on...
www.ami.com AMERICAN MEGATRENDS ... CPU FAN ERROR press ft1 to resume
i have no idea what that is ... DO YOU ? DO YA PUNK?
if you do please help me understand?
cos i mean errors cant be good? could it just be the wire isnt plugged in properly
Okay so its time to name my pc bla bla blah okay here we go... WOAH windows is up and running ...
:S my coaster hasn't felt mug love since.
Oh btw the cabling inside my pc is amazing I MEAN DAMN MAN ;(
anways yeah it all works fine, everything runs amazing, i should send you guys flowers...
.... that was yesterday... today when i booted up... and got to windows
i accidently clicked on crysis and tried to close it again... BLUE SCREEN
restarted pc -.- get when i type in my password it loads up with a black screen and a mouse AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! over and over again
-.- good thing for safe mode and playing around with broken anti virus
AND NOW IT WORKS AGAIN, and its feels like this
[video=youtube;Kq7r4Hanstw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7r4Hanstw[/video]
so thanks pcspecialist... (hugz)
And well thats my review, i'll post some pics later... yeah i know what your thinking... quick review my ************* actaully it is pretty short... i'll add to it when i can but at the moment is STEAM TIME!!!
That leads me to my final two choices, computerplanet and pcspecialist, both seem to genuinely good, but pcspecialist had better reviews and a better warrantly so yeah...
i decided to go with PCSpecialist.co.uk.
So it was the 22nd of december, i woke up by the blaze of sunlight hitting my face, through the tiny crevices in my curtains. I turned on my computer... waited ten minutes (probably made some tea, maybe toast... it was last year i have a memory of a goldfish with one leg...? stapled to someones pc ahem
) ahem. My budget was £1000 (lol so much for that) i ended up spending closer to 2k
Write windows has finally fragging loaded, time to load explorer (so yeah had time to have a shower) so once EVERYTHING HAD FINALLY LOADED... i was finally on WWW.PCSPECIALIST.CO.UK
Okay time to order, boy did i have a lot of options given to me, everything laid out beautiful... i felt like a kid in a candy store, a kid in a candy store who didnt know what to spend his money on...
oh whats this they have forums.... HELL YES...
"hi, my names korey i wanna get a pc, HELP (probably went something long those lines)
Now this is when i realised that PCspecialist was in a league of it's on, the help i got on these forums were phenomenal, honestly some of the nicest people and most helpful people i've come across.
So yeah anyways i eventually came up with this spec
Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-950 (3.06GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Motherboard
:ASUS® RAMPAGE III EXTREME: 3-Way SLI & CrossFireX, SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM)
6GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (3 x 2GB KIT)
Graphics Card
1536MB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX580 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DirectX® 11, 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB Intel® X25-M 2.5" SSD (34nm / upto 250MB/sR | 100MB/sW)***SPECIAL***
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
3rd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W PRO SERIES GOLD (AX1200) 80+ MODULAR PSU (£209)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Firewire & Video Editing
1 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 13 working days
Now here's the production dates for my Pc.
Processed Date
22-12-2010
Pre-Production Date
23-12-2010
Build Date
06-01-2011
Test Date
19-01-2011
QC Date
19-01-2011
Awaiting Dispatch Date
20-01-2011
Dispatch Date
20-01-2011
The time it took for my pc to be ready for dispatch was a bit longer than i expected... But then again i ordered during the busiest times of the year... So i'll say lets take it from the 4th to the 20th... to be reasonal... But i guess they suffered from supply shortages... which let's face it, isn't really their fault... STOP BUYING SO MUCH ^.^
so anyways during this time i got maybe a tad impatience i amended my order, and then again... then again...
and there was a moment where insanity in the form of DSN got the better of me and nearly convinced me to cancel my order and start again with the amazingly fast SANDY BRIDGE PROCESSORS!!!! so it got despatched on the 20th and got here at 10am on the 21st.... DAMN thats quick...
So i come home from work and a massive box is sitting in my room, what could this be i wondered... i looked at the little sticker and i had a twinkling that it was my NEW PC wooooooooooooo... so i opened it and looked inside... OMG MY VERY OWN WELCOME PACK... seriously it felt good just to see it, (i've spent quite a bit of time watching the unboxing video's online and well, once ur pc arrives you'll know what im talking about)...
Btw it was beautifully packaged, Anthony Cunliffe hats off to, the thing couldnt move with all that packaging, you should be incharge of prisons...
anyways
OH WAIT... i forgot to thank somepeople so in no particular order... a special thanks to the following people:
-Andrew Vincent
-Garnet Heller
-Craig Whiteley
-Anthony Cunliffe
-John Mellor
-PCS
-DSN
-Sleinous
-TOM DWC
-BG92
- AND THE PC SPECIALIST SALES TEAM and ONLINE SUPPORT
you guys are the real heroes!!!
SO i unboxed everything and set my pc up in the most awkward place i could find so i had no access to or couldnt even view the awesome see through panel... dammnit...
Okay now to put my case stickers on... hmmm where could they be .... Oh yeah i havent opened my welcome pack...
Oh here they are... yeah a sdd one woooo, yay a corsair powered by one woooo, yay a windows 7 one wooo...
...
.......
.......... is that it :'( BUT I LOVE STICKERS ... I REALLY DO
okay lets just turn this bad boy on...
www.ami.com AMERICAN MEGATRENDS ... CPU FAN ERROR press ft1 to resume
i have no idea what that is ... DO YOU ? DO YA PUNK?
if you do please help me understand?
cos i mean errors cant be good? could it just be the wire isnt plugged in properly
Okay so its time to name my pc bla bla blah okay here we go... WOAH windows is up and running ...
:S my coaster hasn't felt mug love since.
Oh btw the cabling inside my pc is amazing I MEAN DAMN MAN ;(
anways yeah it all works fine, everything runs amazing, i should send you guys flowers...
.... that was yesterday... today when i booted up... and got to windows
i accidently clicked on crysis and tried to close it again... BLUE SCREEN
restarted pc -.- get when i type in my password it loads up with a black screen and a mouse AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! over and over again
-.- good thing for safe mode and playing around with broken anti virus
AND NOW IT WORKS AGAIN, and its feels like this
[video=youtube;Kq7r4Hanstw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7r4Hanstw[/video]
so thanks pcspecialist... (hugz)
And well thats my review, i'll post some pics later... yeah i know what your thinking... quick review my *************
actaully it is pretty short... i'll add to it when i can but at the moment is STEAM TIME!!!
