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soxfandoug

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I'm looking to purchase a new PC, and right now have settled upon a configuration at Digital Storm. I searched the forums, and didn't see much in the way of recent information regarding Digital Storm.

Are they considered to be reputable? I'm looking at a Dreadnought system.

Any feedback would be great.

Thanks!
 
I cant find much on them. Warrenty reviews are nada. I reccomnend getting a sysem from abother place, or better yet, not buy a overpriced pos and build your own.
 
DS is not a pos, they mainly support moba teams and large game events. However, DS is overpriced and you could get the same from origin or cyberpower.
But in my opinion Cyberpower makes ugly computers and if looks arent a concern to you then disregard this message :)
 
I usually build my own. But I've been out of the loop for about 5 years, and just don't have the time to get up to speed on the latest components, and build it myself.

Cyberpower systems seem so gaudy, lol. The Dreadnought is kind of gaudy too, but something about Cyberpower turns me off.

Originally I was looking at Maingear, Falcon Northwest, and Digital Storm. Digital Storm seemed to priced the best, and gave the most detailed information about the components used.

I'll look into Origin now, thanks!
 
I've now looked at most of the places mentioned. Ibuypower and Cyberpower both rub me the wrong way for some reason, so they were excluded from my consideration set. I also excluded Alienware, as I had a bad personal experience with them.

I put together roughly the same PC at Digital Storm, Velocity Micro, Puget, Maingear, Falcon Northwest. Digital Storm came in by far the cheapest. Here is the spec I was looking at:

Cooler Master HAF X Full Tower case
Asus Sabretooth X79 Mobo
Intel i7-3820 CPU (considering going to 3930K)
AMD Radeon 7970 HD 3gb GPU
Corsair Pro Series HX 750W PSU
Corsair Vengeance 16gb DDR3 (4x4gb)
Samsung 840 Pro Series 256gb SSD
Cooler Master 212 Hyper Evo CPU Cooler
Asus Blu-Ray burner
Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

At Digital Storm, that configuration comes in at $2329. Everywhere else was $2600+. I also looked into building it myself. All of the parts above come to $1920.47 on Amazon. I also looked at Newegg, and Amazon was cheaper on most parts, and I'd get free 2 day shipping as a Prime member.

I figure it's worth $400 to have somebody else build it and deal with any build issues, lol. Also gives me the peace of mind of a 3 year warranty and lifetime phone support. I typically enjoy building PCs, but I just don't have the time right now.

What do you think?
 
For what its worth, Digital Storm is a SF Bay Area company (yay local!) and heard they're not too bad. I had a friend that ordered a laptop from them last year. From what I heard, the few times he chatted with support they seemed friendly and helpful at the time.

Do you know someone nearby that can help you build the system? Building a system today seems a lot easier, just like putting legos together IMHO.
 
Thanks for the Digital Storm feedback!

I do usually build my own systems. In the last 15 years, I've probably had 5-6 PCs. I built all but one of them. The one I bought was an Alienware (post Dell). It didn't have any major issues, but lots of little stuff bugged me about it, lol.

So I do know how to build one. I just really don't have time to do it. Not so much the physical building of it (I could spare a couple of hours for that, lol), but the dialing in and fine tuning of drivers, and verifying functionality of components and whatnot. I'd rather somebody else deal with that, lol.
 
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soxfandoug said:
Thanks for the Digital Storm feedback!

I do usually build my own systems. In the last 15 years, I've probably had 5-6 PCs. I built all but one of them. The one I bought was an Alienware (post Dell). It didn't have any major issues, but lots of little stuff bugged me about it, lol.

So I do know how to build one. I just really don't have time to do it. Not so much the physical building of it (I could spare a couple of hours for that, lol), but the dialing in and fine tuning of drivers, and verifying functionality of components and whatnot. I'd rather somebody else deal with that, lol.
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Did you look at Digital Storm's Vanquish product line?
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/vanquish.asp

I just read on Engadget that the Vanquish product line is typically $23-$58 more than the retail cost of components so you are only paying like $60 extra than buying each component yourself. Not sure how accurate it is but if so then that's a pretty good deal.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/24/digital-storm-vanquish/
 
beyonddc said:
Did you look at Digital Storm's Vanquish product line?
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/vanquish.asp

I just read on Engadget that the Vanquish product line is typically $23-$58 more than the retail cost of components so you are only paying like $60 extra than buying each component yourself. Not sure how accurate it is but if so then that's a pretty good deal.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/24/digital-storm-vanquish/
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umm... quoting myself. Nevermind it looks like the Vanquish product line is all pre-confifgured. You cannot customize it.
 
You could build a PC and have it all ready, drivers and all, in 4 hours max. That build you have is extremly overpriced, the more expensive you get of components the more ooverpriced it gets. i put that exact build on newegg and came out to $1650. Thats a whole lot more than $400. If 4 hours isn't worth $700 to you, fine, its a okay build.
 
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