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Post Date: 2010-02-08

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    Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 9:31pm
            I ordered my system back around December 12, 2009, but with the whole holiday buzz and some 
supply issues with the cpu and the reservoir for the liquid cooling I didn't get it till about
January 11th, but it was all good. As you see on the listing I had the Core i7 950, but since
it ran out I got the 960 instead OC'd to around 3.7 to 3.9 ghz. The day it finally came in
I was soo happy, this thing was more of a beast than I expected as far as size. It just made
my old computer look like a hobbit or a laptop lol. As far as performance it just blew me
away, I'm able to watch movies on my blue ray drive while playing MW2 or Aion and never notice
a blemish in performance. This thing is a beast and I am happy I picked DSO to build my pc,
because everything was put together with perfection. Crysis runs beautifully, I get around 80 to 140 fps in it,
            but I couldn't find the screenshots I took in any folders, searched program files and also my games in my documents didn't see 
            any screenshots folder.
            System Configuration:
Chassis Model: Digital Storm HailStorm (Black OPS Edition)
Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish
Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish
Processor: Intel Core i7 950 3.2GHz (Quad Core)
Motherboard: EVGA X58 Classified 3X SLI (Intel X58 Chipset) (Supports Triple SLI or CrossFire)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 1000W Corsair HX (Dual/Triple/Quad SLI Compatible) (Silent Edition)
Expansion Bay: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 2x (300GB Western Digital VelociRaptor (10K RPM) (16MB Cache) (Extreme Speed)
Set 1 Raid Options: Configure HDD Set 1 to a Raid 0 Config - Stripe Performance (Requires Two HDDs)
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (1TB Seagate/Western Digital (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache) (SATA) (Extreme Speed)
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: Blu-Ray Player/DVD Writer (Play Blu-Ray and Burn DVDs)
Optical Drive 2: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x)
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card(s): 2x CrossFire Dual (ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB)
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 5: Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System: CPU & Chipset
H20 Tube Color: Green Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive)
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (UV) (Creates Glowing Effect for H20 Tubes)
Enhancements: - No Thanks
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks
Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
CPU Boost: FREE: Stage 1: Overclock the processor between 3.3GHz to 3.9GHz (Requires Air Cooling Upgrade)
Graphics Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s)
Memory Boost: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory
OS Boost: FREE: Yes, Disable and tweak all of the non-crucial services on the operating system
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit Edition)
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)
Virus Protection: - No Thanks
Office: - No Thanks
Benchmarking: - No Thanks
Pre-Install Game: FREE: Please include a free copy of a hot-selling game
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: FREE: Digital Storm T-Shirt - Black (Large)
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-10 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty
              
             Me and the ancient Dell Dimension 8200 that served me well till it died.
               
                     Old Desk.
                
                                 Old Peripherals.
                  
                 There's the box, oh yeah if you must know I was in the middle of a workout when my computer came in,
                  haha talk about rushing home.
                
                 Beautiful packaging lol. 
                  
                  I was overwhelmed.    
                  Definitely more proud in this picture.  It's almost as big as me.
                  Taking out the interior protection foam, and this image adds a firm foundation 
                  to the theory of beauty being within.
              Yeahhh.... my friend with the camera is no professional, but needless to say even
              the spectators approve lol you did a good job Digital Storm.
                 Yeahhh... mess of wires, laziness + moving in a couple months = random assortment of wires.
          Lolz, yeahh about the box, this desk was not designed for beasts like mine, soo the box
          was a temporary upholder until I could get a board under there.  Haha the would have
          flipped with the computer without support.
Watching 300 on the blue-ray drive, installing MW2 on bottom screen while also installing Aion, haha multi-tasking you say?
Not many good shots in the dark, my camera sucks and so do my photography skills.
This is Lothar, if you see him run!  He will wipe your group, possibly the worst tank ever.  He was tanking with a greatsword until I asked
what kind of stats he gets on his invisible shield, and the dude replied which one.  
Thought I'd put some ingame Aion pics up, frame rate with that game is amazing, I've hit over 550 fps
but didn't take a screenshot at the time.  I have my 3d rendering settings in the Ati config menu at max as well
which makes my fps performance drop, but makes the quality soo much better. 
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  Quote leon Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 9:50pm
nice cant wait for my hailstorm.

what made you go for chipset cooling but not video card cooling?
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 10:01pm
My cpu is overclocked to around 3.9 ghz soo for longevity I went liquid cooling, but as far as gpu cooling it helps but it isn't necessary and makes upgrades a little more difficult lol, and my gpu's stay nice and cool without it as is.
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  Quote leon Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 10:12pm
Cool. Thanks for the response.
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 10:16pm
Np man, you're gonna love your hailstorm bro.
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  Quote Alex Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 08 Feb 2010 at 11:22pm
Awesome pics!
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 12:25am
Thanks a lot man, you guys did a great job!
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  Quote rholyrag Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 1:29am
Awesome Rig!!!!!
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  Quote tanamerra Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 12:09pm
Very nice pics and congrats. Put mine pics to shame. iPhone camera is not that great. Will have to take better ones with a real camera. Very pleased with my Hailstorm so far.
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 1:31pm
Thanks, yeah I am really enjoying mine as well it was really worth the wait, I can't get off of it haha I haven't been doing any of my work for my college classes this semester all because of my hailstorm
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Feb 2010 at 1:41pm
Oh yeah scroll to the right to see the fps in aion, I screwed up the formatting.
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  Quote OsandmanO Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 6:50pm
Nice pics indeed ...Thanks for them all. (Maybe try some screen shots of some benchmarks to add  ? )
There will ALWAYS be room for upgrades.
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 10:08pm

Here's my 3Dmark score
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  Quote OsandmanO Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Feb 2010 at 12:03am
ErmmThats more like it bro ! NICE ...system Shocked
 looking foward to mine soon as well Ouch
There will ALWAYS be room for upgrades.
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Feb 2010 at 1:13am
Haha thanks man, yeah I love my baby.  I sit here and pet it while im gaming or doin miscellaneous stuff 
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  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Feb 2010 at 1:52am
Congrats very nice
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  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Feb 2010 at 8:49am
nice rig, glad to see the cards in the right slots, the water block mounted correctly.
Your vantage score beats my 4890's by 2000 points !
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  Quote Statman11 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Feb 2010 at 9:22am
Awesome movie you were playing in that one pic...300!
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Feb 2010 at 6:54pm
Haha sorry Justin, I'll go make a lower score if you want :p, I know 300 is one of my favorites I just bought it again in blu-ray because of my blu-ray drive, and now I'm workin on startin a collection lol I now have 300, Kingdom of Heaven, and I'll probably buy the gladiator remastered version next.
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  Quote WardTheSteak Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 12 Feb 2010 at 6:56pm
Oh yeah, when I saw rotten's rig and your comments I instantly grew alarmed and dropped to the floor to check my system too haha.
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Oh yeah, Justin I just sent you an e-mail asking you a question, my e-mail adress is [email protected]
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  Quote donaldjeo12 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 01 Jul 2010 at 2:25am
First of all i say congratulate you. and second i have a problem with my CPU. when i work still 3 or 4 hours, then my computer show heat up massage and then shut down automatically....Cry can any body help me how can i solve this problem?
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  Quote Alex Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 01 Jul 2010 at 6:32pm
Originally posted by donaldjeo12

First of all i say congratulate you. and second i have a problem with my CPU. when i work still 3 or 4 hours, then my computer show heat up massage and then shut down automatically....Cry can any body help me how can i solve this problem?


We'll be more than happy to help you bud!

However, please create a new thread in the 'Technical Assistance' section of our forums with a detailed post with the issue, when it happens, and how, etc...
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