Specs
Case BE QUIET! DARK BASE PRO 900 FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™ i9-9900K Eight Core (3.60GHz @ up to 4.9GHz)
Motherboard ASUS® ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card 11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive 1TB Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2500MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW & SOFTWARE
Power Supply CORSAIR 1200W HX SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® PLATINUM, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Braided Power Supply Cables CORSAIR Premium Individually Sleeved PSU Cable Kit Pro - White
Processor Cooling Corsair H115i PRO Cooler w/ PCS Ultra Quiet Fans
Thermal Paste COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
I've been looking to upgrade my PC specs however I'd reached the point where I had to switch out the CPU, motherboard and RAM if I wanted to make any appreciable gains for the investment so decided on a entirely new rig. Which led me back to PC Specialist who did a very good job with my previous PC. I'm primarily a gamer and its my main hobby when I'm not at work. I have also tried to dabble in a bit of streaming and some other side projects I needed more capability to do smoothly.
Review
This is the second PC I've ordered from PC Specialist the last one being between 5-6 years ago. Last time I had a Cosmos II case which I'm now going to use for my own project. The Be Quiet! dark base pro 900 however is a lot more manageable and looks very nice especially with the glass window.
The build & delivery process on PC Specialists end was very quick with updates at every stage which is nice when you're counting the days. DPD did manage to lose then find my PC though and were telling me up until 10 mins before it arrived that it wouldn't be delivered on the Friday(was meant to be on Thursday) but it would turn up on Monday, it did however arrive on Friday!
It is well put together and is very quiet(and cool) when running and I would heartily recommend the case to anyone.
I have to thank everyone who worked on it as obviously a lot of care & attention went into putting it together and getting it to me.
Built By E. Haigh
Tested By Z. Ramzan
QC'd By M. Brown
Packed By C. Horner
I've seen some cases, components, full builds colleagues/friends have received from other manufacturers/suppliers and PC Specialist are definitely ahead of the competition in every aspect as far as I'm concerned.
The case before turning on and after removing the instapak foam protection:
The case turned on:
Alongside one of my monitors, awaiting a bigger desk
:
Performance
The PC performs amazingly. I ran a couple of benchmarks which I've linked below:
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/33305164? -- Firestrike
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/33311874? -- TimeSpy
Decided run the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark at max settings:
Assassin's Creed Odyssey benchmark at max settings:
This will definitely last me a long time and I'm obviously very happy with the results. I hope this helps anyone on the fence about ordering a PC from PC Specialist as I can't really recommend them highly enough. Any time I've had an issue either with the payment going through, a query about a component or trying to figure out what DPD were doing they've been fantastic.
Case BE QUIET! DARK BASE PRO 900 FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™ i9-9900K Eight Core (3.60GHz @ up to 4.9GHz)
Motherboard ASUS® ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card 11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive 1TB Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2500MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW & SOFTWARE
Power Supply CORSAIR 1200W HX SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® PLATINUM, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Braided Power Supply Cables CORSAIR Premium Individually Sleeved PSU Cable Kit Pro - White
Processor Cooling Corsair H115i PRO Cooler w/ PCS Ultra Quiet Fans
Thermal Paste COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
I've been looking to upgrade my PC specs however I'd reached the point where I had to switch out the CPU, motherboard and RAM if I wanted to make any appreciable gains for the investment so decided on a entirely new rig. Which led me back to PC Specialist who did a very good job with my previous PC. I'm primarily a gamer and its my main hobby when I'm not at work. I have also tried to dabble in a bit of streaming and some other side projects I needed more capability to do smoothly.
Review
This is the second PC I've ordered from PC Specialist the last one being between 5-6 years ago. Last time I had a Cosmos II case which I'm now going to use for my own project. The Be Quiet! dark base pro 900 however is a lot more manageable and looks very nice especially with the glass window.
The build & delivery process on PC Specialists end was very quick with updates at every stage which is nice when you're counting the days. DPD did manage to lose then find my PC though and were telling me up until 10 mins before it arrived that it wouldn't be delivered on the Friday(was meant to be on Thursday) but it would turn up on Monday, it did however arrive on Friday!
It is well put together and is very quiet(and cool) when running and I would heartily recommend the case to anyone.
I have to thank everyone who worked on it as obviously a lot of care & attention went into putting it together and getting it to me.
Built By E. Haigh
Tested By Z. Ramzan
QC'd By M. Brown
Packed By C. Horner
I've seen some cases, components, full builds colleagues/friends have received from other manufacturers/suppliers and PC Specialist are definitely ahead of the competition in every aspect as far as I'm concerned.
The case before turning on and after removing the instapak foam protection:
The case turned on:
Alongside one of my monitors, awaiting a bigger desk
:Performance
The PC performs amazingly. I ran a couple of benchmarks which I've linked below:
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/33305164? -- Firestrike
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/33311874? -- TimeSpy
Decided run the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark at max settings:
Assassin's Creed Odyssey benchmark at max settings:
This will definitely last me a long time and I'm obviously very happy with the results. I hope this helps anyone on the fence about ordering a PC from PC Specialist as I can't really recommend them highly enough. Any time I've had an issue either with the payment going through, a query about a component or trying to figure out what DPD were doing they've been fantastic.
