Review and pics!!!!!

djack

Active member
Hey everyone,

My computer arrived yesterday so I said I would give it a little write up!

Firstly

Service - from Pcspecialist was great. Ordered online, made 1 change online, was kept up to date on progress, felt well informed.

Time frame - I had my machine on my desk 9 working days after delivery.

Yodel - My computer was picked up on the 5th from Pcs and arrived here yesderday 6th, was fast, and no issues with parcel. The driver did ask me if he could go for a **** in my toilet tho! lol

Computer - This is where a little problem occured. I unpacked my computer, all packaging in tact, no problems, connected all cables etc and powered on. Straight away I got beeep, beep, beep.
1 long 2 short beeps constantly, no dos, no screen and a DRAM_LED warning light on the motherboard. So, I checked over all connections, made sure ram was secure etc and tried again, still the same.
I decided to give Pcs a call, I wanted to take the ram out and re-socket myself but my Titan cpu cooler fan was in its way. Called the guys up, he said, take the fan off cpu cooler, remove ram and replace etc, testing each stick! So i did, still no go. Called back, got another guy, went through, motherboard resets, press this, remove that, all failed. He said to me you can try one last thing, but only if your comfortable with it, otherwise we can have it returned priority service for you. I said what's that? Remove heatsink, and re-socket the CPU, luckily Ive built plenty of computers in the
past and decided to give this a go. To cut a long story short, it now works, there technical support guys where great, and I thank them for the help, it did kinda **** me off when said computer was not working tho!

**I have a question to ask, I still have a VGA WARNING light on my mother board, you may see it is some of my pictures, everything seems to be running properly (gpu) so what could this be, anyone?**

Anyway, Conclusion, great service, well informed, computer is built well, great cusomer support, was kinda worried for a bit and still am a little, ill keep my eye on it, but over all i'm happy!

I have posted some pictures below for you to have a look at along with what I purchased from pcs, was purchased on a budget and is going to be used for Camera tracking and Maya projects outside of work! With mind to upgrade GPU at a later date (mainly GPU)! (I have caviar black drive here waiting to be installed, after I know everything is working ok!)

Thanks all!

Case InWIN MANA-136 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU) AMD PHENOM II X4 970 (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard M5A99X EVO:USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, Quad CrossFireX™/SLI™
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader NONE
Power Supply CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)
Processor Cooling SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
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
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Price (excluding VAT) £550.00
Price £660.00
Processed Date 25-09-2011
Pre-Production Date 27-09-2011
Build Date 28-09-2011
Test Date 03-10-2011
QC Date 03-10-2011
Awaiting Dispatch Date 05-10-2011
Dispatch Date 05-10-2011
Who Worked on This Order?

Built By Sam Garner
Tested By Zbear Ramzan
QC'd By Adnaan Marban
Packed By Anthony Cunliffe

Pictures!!

screens001.jpg


screen001.jpg


screen002.jpg


case001.jpg


case002.jpg


case003.jpg


all001.jpg


all002.jpg


titan001.jpg


titan002.jpg


titan03.jpg


mobo001.jpg


mobo002.jpg


mobo03.jpg


ram001.jpg


graphics001.jpg


graphics002.jpg


graphics003.jpg


gtaphics002.jpg


cables001.jpg
 
Last edited:

djack

Active member
vga light is red man, the green light is the general power on light, cant figure out whats doing it, its all running ok atm!
 
Top