Hello Community, my mistake..

Perhaps I’ve made the biggest mistake in my life. PC gaming has something of a hobby to me as of late — due to all these youtube videos drawing in my attention. Time hasn’t really been my friend with most things because I tend to neglect it all together. However when i saw the opportune time to strike I did but my aim was completely off. August 5th, I made an order for the Vanquish 5. My excitement, if I could explain it would be rather over exaggerated but nonetheless, I was happy. Didn’t need to look up this companies rapport because I know they are the best in this business and still are. The fault was all mine when I ordered in August — found out that I ordered during the busiest months of the year, and 5 days has transpired still on Stage 1. It hurts ! D: …nothing can ease this pain. I’m pretty sure that the 15 days won’t be enough and I’ll have to wait forever. I don’t know. I don’t know. Just felt like I could vent here to the community forums. Thanks for listening. Hopefully, some progress is made within the next hour or day to quell my anxiety about this PC.

Thank you Alex. I appreciate that you responded. Also, I can't wait for the computer to come into my hands. Paying for the Next Day Delivery is how much I am dedicated to this company and wanting the products. All I'm thinking about in my head is Gears of War on 4K and every other game. I made a mistake keeping the GPU to 1060, so I just bought a FTW 1070 to replace the GPU that comes with the Vanquish.

I ordered two Vanquish 5 level 2s (slightly modified for more memory and no secondary drive or optical drive) for my brother and me on August 8th. Still sitting on phase 1 as of today. Was kind of hoping to have them by my birthday on August 29th and ordered them a week earlier than I originally intended to just to ensure that so I'm a little bouncy at the moment with it still sitting on phase 1. Bought them as a birthday present for myself (August 29), an early birthday present for my brother (October 11th), and for the release of World of Warcraft Legion (August 30), but I can understand how busy things can get at this time of year.

Was thinking maybe something got back-ordered, but being back to school season makes a bit more sense.

I wasn't even thinking about back to school when I did my order. Don't have any kids myself and been out of school for several years so completely forgot it was school time. Doesn't help it seems to start earlier and earlier every year. In my day, it started on the week of my birthday. Now it seems to start two to three weeks before it.

My original intent was to order last month but I had bought a car at the end of June and it needed about $1000 in parts just to be legal on the road so that pushed me back a little. Now I wish I had ordered in July after all. Oh well. C'est la vie. As long as I get it by the end of September, guess I can't complain. My brother will curse playing WoW Legion, though. He's below the minimum specs for it now with his current system and he's not too happy.

I had to wait longer then anybody trust me its worth it when you get that beast

My pc is in my sig below.




It had a lot of customization, I waited months, some of it was due to parts and upgrades I wanted, I don't want to blame DS for the whole thing as I played a big part in it.

But trust me I have not met one member that got their pc and was happy and didn't say it was worth the wait

Edited by DST4ME - 16 Aug 2016 at 5:13pm

Haha.. I almost went to A********* also but like you, I did my research. It was all bells and whistles from that side of the computer world and then I saw this company website. At first it looked too good to be true what they were selling their Vanquish for but I jumped on it right away. Now is just the testing of all men and life, the wait. Although happiness is right down the line, patience becomes virtue.













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Edited by Snaike - 17 Aug 2016 at 1:57am

Kind of why I kept coming back here. So many more options compared to other sites. Heh. Ran into one that let you customize quite a bit but it was confusing to navigate and add parts so I eliminated that one pretty fast. Price didn't match here anyway.

Contemplating changing a few things in my brother's system like reducing him to an i5 (I have the i7 6700 in both right now) while upgrading me to an i7 6700k but meh. He's not as big of a PC gamer as I am so I probably could have gone with the level 1 Vanquish 5 for him, but I'm a nice sister and splurged a little. Intending to get a secondary hard drive and a blu-ray drive for him probably on Black Friday, too. I already have a blu-ray myself as well as a 1 TB and a 3 TB external so neither's a big deal for me. He shouldn't have to upgrade his system for a couple of years. Last computer I built him was like $600. The DS one I built him is $1300.

What is the difference between the I7 6700 and the 6700k? I got the 6700 I7 to be future proof for a couple of years or more since I know a lot of people still play games on their GTX970 or less with an I5 4k.

Thank you Bprat. I don't think i'll be running an overclocked rigged soon or see any use for it at this moment because I'll just be playing in 1440p60fps or maybe 4k30fps. My tv buck stops at 4k 60hz and I think that's all I need in my life right now until 8k becomes a thing haha.

Originally posted by Blackblur Thank you Bprat. I don't think i'll be running an overclocked rigged soon or see any use for it at this moment because I'll just be playing in 1440p60fps or maybe 4k30fps. My tv buck stops at 4k 60hz and I think that's all I need in my life right now until 8k becomes a thing haha.

keep in mind the cpu is the brain of your pc the faster it can think the faster everything goes, you may not see gain in fps but everything else the pc does will be faster. think about everything else you do with the pc other then gaming.

OC brings forth the single most performance gain in a pc.

to add to what bp said the difference between the 6600 and 6700k is the fact that the "k" is unlocked so you can oc, the 6700k has a higher base clock so its faster even without oc and also the 6700k supports hyperthread which the 6600 does not.

Some things to think about.

for gaming and your res, its more about the gpu then cpu, specially when you go above 1080p

Edited by DST4ME - 17 Aug 2016 at 3:52pm

I think tech support is running during the weekend only, but that is just a guess, we need Alex to chime in to tell us what the deal is or maybe another DS employee.

Alex, I really appreciate the time you take to respond to forums. Despite this long wait, guaranteed that if I wanted to buy another pre-built computer, I'd be back here again just because of your dedication.Just next time around, I won't sell my Xbox One or this computer coming before I get it cause now there's no games to be played lmao

Thank you Alex, so then to answer the original question Blackblur asked, does DS then update customers on their builds on during the weekend? (via email / stage updates)

Originally posted by DST4ME Does DS then update customers on their builds on during the weekend? (via email / stage updates)

Yes we do via email updates.

That question was a bit more convoluted then I needed it to be. I'm satisfied with the answer given.

Digital Storm has an A + BBS rating that ought to tell you something!

We're trying out best to ship units ASAP, our staff has been working overtime and on the weekends.