First 24 hours review.

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   Hey guys, 

Well its been around 24 hours since my computer arrived here. I didnt get to fiddle with it too much last night because i was busy installing all my various games i wanted to play today and of course, anti virus software and various utility software to make sure she continues running well.

It arrived in good condition, no major damage to the box that i could make out. Just the usual scraps and scuffs on the side of the box you get when you ship something. The box was HUGE, about the size of a smaller desk i have in my room. The computer came wrapped in a plastic sheet as well as foam packing all around the computer. The fit was nice and snug to prevent as much movement as possible. 

The Cosmos S usually comes with a cloth sack around it when you buy it retail. I dont know if DS gets that well, but it was not included in my case. No biggie really, i just cover it with the plastic sheet it came in at night when i power it down to keep the dust off it.

As always when you first get a new computer shipped to you, you pop it open and take a look inside to make sure nothing had pryed loose during the shipping. As you can see in the picture below nothing major had come loose, except for the AC freezer pro fan. It only snapped on to the heatsink so the fix for that took all of 5 seconds to snap it back on. The wiring job was excellent as you can see, very little clutter. You can also see the size of the Cosmos S, as the mobo is the 790i ultra yet it looks dwarfed from within the case. 

I ordered stage 3 air cooling which means the case is stuffed with fans. Intrestingly I had no idea that the fans ordered in stage 3 would be the lighted kind. The case comes with 1 red lighted fan in the front, all the fans DS added are blue. Making a sort of intresting red/blue color clash with the lower half of the case red and the upper half blue. At first I didnt like that too much, but its starting to grow on me. I ordered no cold cathode lighting and if i did the case would shine WAY too bright for my tastes as i like to play in the dark. Here is quick top down look at the extra fans glowing their blueishness. My toes are an bonus for this shot, im not skilled at taking pictures apparently and my old photoshop software from my old computer does not work with V64..so no cropping right now haha.

One last shot of the whole get up. Yes i know my speakers suck, they are next on the replace list. Im still not sure where to put this computer. Its too big for the drawer, and honestly it never would of went in there in the first place...what would be the point of stage 3 air cooling if im just gonna kill the airflow to it.

Also note that I did end up with a Zotac 9800GX2. So no step up for me! I blame myself for not requesting an EVGA graphic card. So if you plan to buy make SURE you request EVGA if you want to use the step up program. The 9800GX2 ran crysis very well for the 2 hours i got to play it with. No major slow downs, and no freeze ups which i heard were common with the 790i mobo. Only bad part is that trying to start up Ntune will BSOD the computer everytime. No solution to that yet other then uninstalling Ntune and leaving it alone lol.

Some notes:
Core temp reads my CPU at 47C and 38C respectively with a non overclocked E8500 and a room temp of 80 degrees (HOT ROOM!)

Of the 7 total fans on the computer 6 are blowing air into the case with 1 blowing it out. I dunno if that is good or not or really has any effect. From what i can tell all 3 top fans are blowing air into the case, which seems wrong, warm air rises, so itd probably be better if they were blowing out.

Vista is really Fing confusing at first when you been using XP for the past 5 years.

Anyways ill give a better review after a month of using this computer, after which i plan to overclock the CPU and memory. Take this as my first impressions.

First 24 hours review.

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