My new gaming rig arrived

[Forward Observer]

I posted back in February asking about on-line custom PC shops. Then later posted that I had gone ahead and ordered a new custom PC from Cyberpower. I was a little worried about some negative reviews that these sites get, but they came through so far by me.

My build was delayed because the EVGA factory got behind on filling orders for the NVidia GTX295 graphics card I picked. I placed my order on the 16th of February and by last week they still did not have a shipment in of these cards. I had thought about having it built without the card and buying the card myself, but then I found out that both Newegg and 2 other sites I checked were also out of stock.

On last Thursday I decided to drop down the GTX285 1gb card which should be more than adequate for what I plan on playing. Cyperpower then surprised me by building and shipping my rig the next day on Friday. It arrived yesterday, but knowing I would not be home until late, I was able to get FedEx to hold it at their terminal so I could pick it up myself.

I got it unpacked last night, but it was so late I waited until today to start setting it up.

Here it is out of the box. They did an excellent job of packing by putting it back in the Thermaltake case box and then putting in the huge box to the right surrounded by foam rubber. I picked a full tower, but did not realize how huge it was until I saw the box and then unpacked it.


Here's a shot of the guts. You can see the liquid cooler and radiator for the CPU. The GPU and PSU have separate compartment partitions and their own fans.
The case has two huge 230mm fans-one on top and one on the side, one 140mm in front, and 2 back 120mm fans plus a 3rd 120mm internal. I worried about picking a case with the PSU at the bottom, but with the partition and all of the fans there should be no issue.


This morning I hooked everything up, prayed a bit, pushed the power button, and viola--I have a new monster gaming rig.


I going to give it some time, but if everything keeps working as it does now, I will happily give Cyberpower a positive review at resellers.com

Now, I'm off to load up some games--including Empire total war.

Cheers

[Hosakawa Tito]

That's a nice looking system and looks well built with all the wiring neatly and compactly bundled. Enjoy your new system FO!

[Husar]

That looks very nice indeed.
I also notice you went to simHQ before the .org.

Hope it keeps working nicely!

[Forward Observer]

That looks very nice indeed.
I also notice you went to simHQ before the .org.

Hope it keeps working nicely!

Yeah, I actually post over there a bit more than I do here, and we had a bit of a running debate on the pros and cons of ordering from places like Cyberpower or Ibuypower, so I had promised I would post when my PC arrived their first, and of course--if it worked. I came here next with essentially the same post.

You know how it is when you get a new toy--you just gotta show it off--lol

[ICantSpellDawg]

Yeah, I actually post over there a bit more than I do here, and we had a bit of a running debate on the pros and cons of ordering from places like Cyberpower or Ibuypower, so I had promised I would post when my PC arrived their first, and of course--if it worked. I came here next with essentially the same post.

You know how it is when you get a new toy--you just gotta show it off--lol

?Cuanto Cuesta?

[Forward Observer]

?Cuanto Cuesta?

$1964.61 which included $95 for 2nd day FedEx and $20 for what they call professional wiring.

The final build specs:
Case: Thermaltake Spedo Full tower
PSU: NZXT 800 watt quad SLI ready
MB: Asus P6T Intel X58 chipset 3 way SLI or Crossfire support
CPU: Intel i7-940 2.93 GHz (which is suppose to over-clock pretty well)
Cooling: Asetek Liquid CPU cooling system
Memory: 6GB DDR3/1600Mhz Corsair
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 1GB Video Card
Hard drive: 1 terabyte SATA II/ 7200rpm (Hitachi)
Optical drives 2 LG 20X double layer DVD+-R/RW--one with lightscribe
Thermal Display: NZXT color LCD thermal control panel
12 in 1 external card reader
OS: Windows Vista home Premium 64 bit with 60day trial of Windows office
Plus I got two free games--Farcry 2 and Halo 2

They also included a standard no-frills Logitech keyboard and mouse, which they value at $8.

Prior to changing out the GPU in my build, I ran a total of the cost of all the parts at NewEgg. At that time it would have cost me just over $200 more just to buy the parts, and I would have still had to put the thing together plus hope that it worked. Additionally, I would only have warranties on the various components from a dozen companies. With Cyberpower, I have a 3 year parts and labor warranty on the whole unit---plus free lifetime phone support.

Of course the home builder can sometime save money by recycling non-obsolete parts from previous builds, but for all new parts in my case, Cyberpower just came out cheaper than building it myself.

Cheers