Hello! Thought I’d start reviewing my computer, I can only go so far as I haven’t used it yet. Pros, cons and all the bits in between.
SPEC
Send in your own case: InWin Mana 136 White
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4670 (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 760 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM450W
Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
FREE SPLINTER CELL BLACKLIST GAME with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
3 Years Silver Warranty
Price: £817 + case £49
Dates
Processed: 03 aug
Pre-Production: 06 aug
Build/Test/QC: 08/12/12 aug
Dispatch: 13 aug
I ordered my PC at the start of August with the assumption it would take 3-4 weeks to build. I’d been trawling the forums for a while reading and learning as much as I could to make an informed decision and had seen people in the pre-production time thread reporting 15+ working days. I was alright with this, no rush, as I had a room to decorate and furniture to buy. However my PC seemed to rush through its production and was done and had arrived just over a week and a half later. So sadly its been sitting in a box for over 3 weeks and is still not in use, so I’ll have to update this as I get it going and I’d like to take some pictures with the leds running ^^
Pros
*Build time! By god was that fast. I didn’t pay for any extra fast track services, so I was pleasantly surprised. Though it was a little confusing as to why other people with similar specs were sitting on 18 day pre-production times when mine spent only 2 days in it.
*Looks awesome! I sent in my own case for this. I really liked the white better and had enquired whether or not the white was ever in stock. After being told it wasn’t, I looked into getting one off Amazon. £49 - same as the black one, still with the blue led fan in the front. At first I thought I’d have to have it shipped to my address and then post it down to PCS myself, so I was relieved when I read I could get it sent straight from Amazon to PCS. (I think the postage to send it was about £22+ otherwise :O)
*Quality. I think it looks very well put together. I’ve got no complaints there, the people putting these together aren’t just throwing the parts together without a care, although someone did have dirty hands on my graphics card.
The case is in perfect condition, and everything on the back panel looks neatly installed. All the cables are grouped together. I’ll be honest; I dread having to undo any of them since all the cables look like one identical mess.
*Delivery. It got dispatched on the 13th, Tuesday afternoon. Like a crazy person I refreshed the tracking half a dozen times a minute for the next 24hrs. Last update I saw was logged in at 8pm, where it had arrived at some facility in Birmingham (It went south for some reason before coming all the way back up north lol). At this point I assumed it would stop there over night. I got up the next morning eager to refresh the page only to find that it had arrived in Newcastle at 3am and it was already out for delivery on the google map tracking thing they had.
*More here when I get to turn it on!
Little things...
*PCI covers. I guess this could fit slightly into the cons too. My case was supposed to come with a spare PCI slot cover as well as the one that is removed for, in my case, the network card. So I was expecting 2 slot covers in my welcome pack. I also thought I'd get the front panel back too.I did get what appears to be another size slot for the network card, a tiny little thing, guessing for another size case.
*Power Cable. I didn’t think much of this at first. It was only later I thought that the PSU surely must have a power cable, so I was fine with having 2, a spare cant harm, but I have only received one cable. If someone could clarify on that if they know more.
*Discount. I made my spec and was debating over it for a few days. The price changed quite a bit during this and in this time I found a discount code on a banner ad. I read the forums, which said there was a place to put the code in when putting in your card details so I clicked through to pay and found nothing. Some other guy had this exact issue and told how he bought his pc and then PCS credited the discount after since he couldn’t put the code in. So I rang up about this and was told to email the code in after I’d made my transaction and the same thing would be done. So I emailed my order number and the fact that I’d been in touch and told to email the code in and got a reply back saying I’d been told wrong. Only 15 quid but it would have been a nice bonus.
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SPEC
Send in your own case: InWin Mana 136 White
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4670 (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 760 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM450W
Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
FREE SPLINTER CELL BLACKLIST GAME with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
3 Years Silver Warranty
Price: £817 + case £49
Dates
Processed: 03 aug
Pre-Production: 06 aug
Build/Test/QC: 08/12/12 aug
Dispatch: 13 aug
I ordered my PC at the start of August with the assumption it would take 3-4 weeks to build. I’d been trawling the forums for a while reading and learning as much as I could to make an informed decision and had seen people in the pre-production time thread reporting 15+ working days. I was alright with this, no rush, as I had a room to decorate and furniture to buy. However my PC seemed to rush through its production and was done and had arrived just over a week and a half later. So sadly its been sitting in a box for over 3 weeks and is still not in use, so I’ll have to update this as I get it going and I’d like to take some pictures with the leds running ^^
Pros
*Build time! By god was that fast. I didn’t pay for any extra fast track services, so I was pleasantly surprised. Though it was a little confusing as to why other people with similar specs were sitting on 18 day pre-production times when mine spent only 2 days in it.
*Looks awesome! I sent in my own case for this. I really liked the white better and had enquired whether or not the white was ever in stock. After being told it wasn’t, I looked into getting one off Amazon. £49 - same as the black one, still with the blue led fan in the front. At first I thought I’d have to have it shipped to my address and then post it down to PCS myself, so I was relieved when I read I could get it sent straight from Amazon to PCS. (I think the postage to send it was about £22+ otherwise :O)
*Quality. I think it looks very well put together. I’ve got no complaints there, the people putting these together aren’t just throwing the parts together without a care, although someone did have dirty hands on my graphics card.
The case is in perfect condition, and everything on the back panel looks neatly installed. All the cables are grouped together. I’ll be honest; I dread having to undo any of them since all the cables look like one identical mess. *Delivery. It got dispatched on the 13th, Tuesday afternoon. Like a crazy person I refreshed the tracking half a dozen times a minute for the next 24hrs. Last update I saw was logged in at 8pm, where it had arrived at some facility in Birmingham (It went south for some reason before coming all the way back up north lol). At this point I assumed it would stop there over night. I got up the next morning eager to refresh the page only to find that it had arrived in Newcastle at 3am and it was already out for delivery on the google map tracking thing they had.
*More here when I get to turn it on!
Little things...
*PCI covers. I guess this could fit slightly into the cons too. My case was supposed to come with a spare PCI slot cover as well as the one that is removed for, in my case, the network card. So I was expecting 2 slot covers in my welcome pack. I also thought I'd get the front panel back too.I did get what appears to be another size slot for the network card, a tiny little thing, guessing for another size case.
*Power Cable. I didn’t think much of this at first. It was only later I thought that the PSU surely must have a power cable, so I was fine with having 2, a spare cant harm, but I have only received one cable. If someone could clarify on that if they know more.
*Discount. I made my spec and was debating over it for a few days. The price changed quite a bit during this and in this time I found a discount code on a banner ad. I read the forums, which said there was a place to put the code in when putting in your card details so I clicked through to pay and found nothing. Some other guy had this exact issue and told how he bought his pc and then PCS credited the discount after since he couldn’t put the code in. So I rang up about this and was told to email the code in after I’d made my transaction and the same thing would be done. So I emailed my order number and the fact that I’d been in touch and told to email the code in and got a reply back saying I’d been told wrong. Only 15 quid but it would have been a nice bonus.
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