Vanquish Level 4 system

I just bought the vanquish level 4 system to:

1. work on photos
2. play Battlefield and Titanfall (when it comes out)

Anyone able to give me some feedback on their system and its capabilities? I am so excited to unbox this thing and get back in the game.

Thanks in advance

I definitely will come back and give a full report!  The system you have in your signature sounds absolutely beast!  The first games I will be able to review will be Crysis 3 and if I decide to get truly nostalgic, I may even throw on the old Call of Duty 4, for old times' sake :)

Congrats on the new vanquish 4. 

Edited by bprat22 - 15 Sep 2013 at 8:54am

Happy gaming! Cool periphials too. Pictures and lots of them. It's a requirement!

Thanks for the advice guys! I am anxiously awaiting Fedex to arrive with this thing!! I think the anticipation of this new PC has me thinking a little too far into the future and I agree, running it as is for now is probably the best idea

If anyone is interested, Adobe is running some killer sales on their elements line of software. I just picked up Elements Suite 11 for $100. That comes with both Photoshop and Premiere, so you can edit both stills and live action on a less power hungry but still feature filled piece of software. I have been using Photoshop Elements 8 in the past on my laptop, but this seems like a no brainer!

Well, it finally arrived!! I will post pics when I get home but I can tell you that it plays Crysis 3 without a hitch and looks marvelous doing it! The RAM setup as advertised was not in the case. Instead a higher end set of Corsair was installed. PhotoShop runs smooth and I have no problems with either fan noise or things not booting properly!!! I will post some pics and if I can figure out how, I will post playback from Crysis 3

http://www.corsair.com/us/memory-by-product-family/vengeance/vengeance-8gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9r.html

that is what it came with!!

This is the GPU the system came with:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121770

Not bad as far as stock hardware is concerned. After playing Crysis 3 last night, I know for a fact that I bought a machine that will be good to go for years to come!

looks very nice

but teasing us

Alright, as soon as this movie is done! BTW, off topic a bit here, in the opinion of my DS brethren, will BF4 be worth the extra cash over BF3? Looking for a game to blow stuff up and get my multi-player on!

Alright, this is the review of the machine so far! I will post pictures later this evening.

1. Packing- the unit came air filled heavy duty crating and all pieces were included (keyboard, binder,etc). Honestly, the best packed item I have received from anyone.

2. Quality- from the start, you can just tell how high quality this unit truly is. They use a custom Corsair case that appears to be well ventilated. I may add a few fans in the future if I see that cooling is becoming an issue. So far so good. The keyboard I chose is the Corsair C70 and my Mouse is the Corsair M40. Both units boast soft touch controls and a truly tactile experience. The keys on the keyboard are MX Cherry keys and give great response.

3. Internals- the innards of this toy are top notch. The GPU and mobo both from Asus work well in tandem and five my system the future proofing I was looking for. This board doesn't appear to be SLI ready, but this is not a deal breaker to me as one GPU is fine for now! The processor is the 4670k i5 haswell core and the overcloxking checked at 4.4 GHz as advertised. To round that out, the RAM is a vegeance series a bit higer performance than advertised. No complaints there.

4. Performance- the optimized settings for Crysis 3 play the game at high throughout (largely in part to having a gtx770 on board) and I play on a 27 inch Acer from DS. The response and colors are intense. After three hours, the computer was running icy cold still, so not sure if I will really be needing extra case fans. PhotoShop and Premiere looks super rich and lifelike! The display and power of the computer makes this experience better than ever for me! Movie playback was also incredible. The DVD from World War Z looks great and the response time is solid at 60hz. For audio, I have the game on 780 from Plantronics and the surround sound is beautiful. This headset links perfectly to this system and uses USB, but on board audio is more than sufficient for these headphones.

5. Conclusion- for the money, I could not have built a better system myself. The only things I may do in the future are add more RAM when needed and upgrade to Windows 8 once game support grows and/or is required. Plus, Microsoft needs to work out the links in it too. Thanks to Digital Storm for offering us such a great deal and hanks for all the advice, it means a lot that you stand behind your product!

Nice review.  Pics would be great and like fstcvc  suggested, put it in General.

Post it in General Discussions when you can.  We can't post in Customer  Reviews.  That is something a DS rep has to do . 

Edited by bprat22 - 18 Sep 2013 at 10:05am