Got my Dreadnought today - First Impressions

It basically took a week and a half from order to delivery from CA to OH, the build process was quick!

The box was huge, looks like the packaging method was different than the video shown with expanding foam. It's some elastic plastic like ones I've used to ship laptops with.





Got my cool T-shirt with someones blonde hair on it


Here it is in all it's glory!



I am very disappointed in the placement of the red cathode tube, I have no idea why he installed it up and behind the motherboard, 75% of the light is blocked and you barely see it at night.



The cable management is "okay" and some is sloppy, some of the wires are pinched so tight with zip ties I am concerned that it might break later on. The cables/wires are putting a lot of pressure on the side case panel, I know it's bulging out.


I had to search out myself to see where my fan controller was hooked up to which fan, it would've been nice if they included a note.

I have to say I was very excited to get it today, but some of my enthusiasm has died down - I guess I just assumed perfection...

Edited by armoredsaint - 17 Apr 2013 at 8:14pm

P.S.

I've sent a copy of your review to all of Upper Management to ensure this does not occur for future customers. Mistakes or situations can always occur as a business grows and adds new employees, but, that's not an excuse and we always want to learn from situations to perfect the business for our customers.

super alex saves tha day..

Originally posted by Solidus1833 also i have to say the wiring on that case is not ds standard, that is the worse ive seen from them.

now i know it's not just me then - yeah it's a lot worse if you see it in person, plus on the other side with the window cut-out, the wiring is quite bad too

@armoredsaint,

Thank you for the quick reply. It just does not live up to the quality myself and our team takes pride in, which is why we would like to take care of this for you. We'll do our best to turn it around in 1-2 days once it arrives to our facility. Shipping will take 3-5 days each way.

The beep when you re-start or start the computer is normal.

I'll be checking tomorrow (Upper Management will look into it anyways), but, I doubt it happened in shipping.

Edited by Alex - 17 Apr 2013 at 10:12pm

Originally posted by Solidus1833 alex do you have pictures of what it looked like before it got boxed? mabe wiring got loose during shipping?

I don't think it can move considering how tight the zip ties are on the wires, my major concerns is all the 180 degree kinks in some of the cables.

Plus who know what's going on with wiring I can't see behind the case wall and mobo.

Last night it was having issues reading one of my hard drives, so sad...

Just noticed that I am missing the side fan shroud or however you call it? It's not in my left-over parts either.

I believe we don't install them because they get in the way of many graphic cards when we install the foam materials (depending if you have a heavy graphics card).

It's not something that really does much to help with temps, but, if you would like, we can include it in the packaging for you?

My HAF-X has its fan shroud. Though I have never tested the temps without it. Or course, the GPU bracket was also not used in my build, so that might have been why they stuck the shroud on. 

I also ordered 2 1/2 years ago, so DS very likely has changed their setup for the 942 since then. 

On many boards, the SATA III ports (SATA 6Gb/s) don't have the better performance than the SATA II (SATA 3Gb/s) ports in random 4K reads and writes and IOPS which will actually improve real world overall performance.

Usually the only time you'll see SATA III ports do better are in sequential benchmarks.

If you would like to ensure we have your SSD on the SATA III port (SATA 6Gb/s), we definitely can. But, I believe you're not going to be sending the SSD with the system right?

But I will say, this thing is a beast - runs nice and cool, plus quiet when i played BF3 for the first time in a month for an hour.

i just need to get used to the corsair k90 and m65.

Edited by armoredsaint - 21 Apr 2013 at 12:14pm

   I so want to say something...... but, no.

Had to be tough, waving good-bye.

you should call fed ex.. and report it.

Originally posted by armoredsaint Originally posted by Solidus1833 you should call fed ex.. and report it. it might be useless to report it unless he stomped on it - i have home security cameras and that's how i saw it

You should still report it. I would.