Hi All,
After 4 years it was finally time to bite the bullet and retire my first PCS buy.
After much stalking of the forums, working and reworking the configurator I arrived at this:
Case NZXT NOCTIS 450 MID-TOWER GAMING CASE (BLACK/RED)
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-7700k Quad Core (4.20GHz @ up to 4.8GHz)
OC BIOS FIle Download Overclock BIOS File
Motherboard ASUS® ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX SAVAGE DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)
Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
1st Hard Disk 1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
M.2 SSD Drive 512GB SAMSUNG PM961 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 2800MB/R, 1600MB/W)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Operating System Language United Kingdom - English Language
DVD Recovery Media Windows 10 (64-bit) Home DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser Google Chrome™
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
All told about £1700 + delivery.
And I am VERY impressed. I use it for some gaming and general work use and am really pleased. The ordering process was impressive with the simple to use configurator and even more valuable was the stalking the Check My Spec forum to see what others have built. I ordered Sunday evening and it was built within 3 days and ready to dispatch, I paid for Saturday delivery and it arrived safe and sound 9.30am this morning. I was basically like a dog sitting by the front door waiting for the postman...
The tower is an absolute beast but fits well under the desk. The case is largely for cosmetic value with the red LEDs but seems very quiet and very well laid out inside. I've not gone into measuring temperatures but I do believe from what I can see that PCS have done a good job with the cables and fans are nice, clean and quiet. Also everything worked fine straight out the box and only one single setting needed any tweaking (giving the HDD a letter as per a post in the technical support forum). Plenty of USB / input slots all nice and simple to find and use with my setup (2 monitors, wireless xbox controller, mouse/keyboard/speakers/headphones).
Performance is where it really stands out though.
Boot-up time is negligible - blink and you've missed it. All my games are loading blisteringly fast and any with 'automatic' graphic settings are going straight to Ultra immediately. Had a good stint on Battlefield 1 today on max settings and was very smooth. This is also my first windows 10 PC and I am so glad having skipped 8 completely - this seems like a proper step forward. Tomorrow i'll get some late game Civ 6 in on a large/epic map to see if it even considers chugging - but from what I have seen so far I doubt it.
So all in all - very pleased with the product and service and would recommend using PCS to anyone who wants a computer.
(attachments below)
After 4 years it was finally time to bite the bullet and retire my first PCS buy.
After much stalking of the forums, working and reworking the configurator I arrived at this:
Case NZXT NOCTIS 450 MID-TOWER GAMING CASE (BLACK/RED)
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-7700k Quad Core (4.20GHz @ up to 4.8GHz)
OC BIOS FIle Download Overclock BIOS File
Motherboard ASUS® ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX SAVAGE DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)
Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
1st Hard Disk 1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
M.2 SSD Drive 512GB SAMSUNG PM961 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 2800MB/R, 1600MB/W)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Operating System Language United Kingdom - English Language
DVD Recovery Media Windows 10 (64-bit) Home DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser Google Chrome™
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
All told about £1700 + delivery.
And I am VERY impressed. I use it for some gaming and general work use and am really pleased. The ordering process was impressive with the simple to use configurator and even more valuable was the stalking the Check My Spec forum to see what others have built. I ordered Sunday evening and it was built within 3 days and ready to dispatch, I paid for Saturday delivery and it arrived safe and sound 9.30am this morning. I was basically like a dog sitting by the front door waiting for the postman...
The tower is an absolute beast but fits well under the desk. The case is largely for cosmetic value with the red LEDs but seems very quiet and very well laid out inside. I've not gone into measuring temperatures but I do believe from what I can see that PCS have done a good job with the cables and fans are nice, clean and quiet. Also everything worked fine straight out the box and only one single setting needed any tweaking (giving the HDD a letter as per a post in the technical support forum). Plenty of USB / input slots all nice and simple to find and use with my setup (2 monitors, wireless xbox controller, mouse/keyboard/speakers/headphones).
Performance is where it really stands out though.
Boot-up time is negligible - blink and you've missed it. All my games are loading blisteringly fast and any with 'automatic' graphic settings are going straight to Ultra immediately. Had a good stint on Battlefield 1 today on max settings and was very smooth. This is also my first windows 10 PC and I am so glad having skipped 8 completely - this seems like a proper step forward. Tomorrow i'll get some late game Civ 6 in on a large/epic map to see if it even considers chugging - but from what I have seen so far I doubt it.
So all in all - very pleased with the product and service and would recommend using PCS to anyone who wants a computer.
(attachments below)
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