Nomads Dreadnought ReviewPost Date: 2013-05-04 |
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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I received my custom Dreadnought on April 3rd, I wanted to wait for about a month to let the initial WOW factor to subside a bit.
This is my basic configuration:
Case: Cooler Master 942 HAF X Processor: Intel Core i7 3930K 3.2GHz (Six-Core) Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X79 System Memory: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series Power Supply: 1050W Corsair Pro Silver 1050HX Hard Drive 1: 240GB Solid State Hard Drive 2: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Edition Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x) Video Card: 2x SLI Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4GB Sound: Integrated Motherboard Audio CPU Cooling: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 Extreme Performance Boost Processor: Stage 1: Overclock CPU 4.3 Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition) Extra 200mm top fan installed
This is my first custom built computer. My old computer was a Dell XPS 720 which is still running fine. My purchase was a desired purchase, not a required purchase. This was something I wanted, not something I had to purchase now.
I am still ecstatic about my new Dreadnought computer. It is even better than I expected. Much of my computer use is with Matrix Games War in the Pacific Admirals Edition. This is a very large, detailed war game. I play it Play by Email(PBEM) and it is a wego game system (we both input orders and then the turn is executed). It does not require much in the way of graphics, but I do have multiple programs( as many as 12 ) open at the same time and some take a lot of memory. I also play RPG games and at the moment I am still immersed in my heavily modded version of Morrowind. I get very good frame rates with settings at extremely high settings.
I have had only one hardware problem so far, the DVD reader disappeared. Re-seating the data cable took care of that problem.
The bottom line is that I am extremely happy with my purchase and would certainly recommend Digital Storm to any that asked. The required picture of the VERY LARGE box I love the look of the Noctura CPU cooler. Very neat installation. Ready for some action. Night action time. Morrowind -- Balmora Morrowind -- Tel Branora Morrowind - Seyda Neen Edited by Nomad1970 - 05 May 2013 at 9:59am |
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bprat22 ![]() DS ELITE ![]() DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) ![]() Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391 |
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That is a dynamite rig.
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"Captain Sirius Black"
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Evil_intentions ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 118 |
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Awesome enjoy your new DS rig. 670's are great cards looks like the Classy's too wicked. Love the Signature too
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DINGIR13 ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Apr 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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Did they Over clock you?
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Alex ![]() Admin Group ![]() Digital Storm Supervisor ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16314 |
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Awesome system! Glad to hear you love it!
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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Yes, 4.3GHz |
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DomTheBomb ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 May 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 314 |
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Congrats on your new system!
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DS x17, 1 Year 5 Months
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Tidgxor ![]() DS ELITE ![]() The Kokopelli kid ![]() Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13000 |
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Congrats!
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My Two Digital Storm Rigs: Mr. Bojangles (HAF-X, 2010) & Mrs. Bojingles (Bolt I, 2013).
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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I thought these reviews were to be moved by DS?
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ArkansasWoman777 ![]() DS Veteran ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4314 |
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I'm sure they will move it eventually |
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Tidgxor ![]() DS ELITE ![]() The Kokopelli kid ![]() Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13000 |
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Yeah, sometimes it takes awhile, bug Alex if you want.
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My Two Digital Storm Rigs: Mr. Bojangles (HAF-X, 2010) & Mrs. Bojingles (Bolt I, 2013).
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Alex ![]() Admin Group ![]() Digital Storm Supervisor ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16314 |
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Sorry for the delay! Thank you for posting your review, I'm glad to hear that you love the PC!
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retirednavysnipe ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Apr 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 606 |
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![]() Looks great, enjoy gaming on that. |
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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Sorry, didn't really mean to be complaining, just wondering.
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Congratulations on your new rig!! Nice specs and pictures. Thanks and Enjoy!!
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My Two Digital Storm Rigs: Mr. Bojangles (HAF-X, 2010) & Mrs. Bojingles (Bolt I, 2013).
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Great pictures!
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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Another month of use and no problems at all. I upgraded my 24" u2407 @ 1920x1200 monitor to a 30" U3014 @ 2560x1600and had no problems. The 2 GTX 670s are driving it fine and my 24" is the second monitor for data display.
I now realize that I have no experience with customer support because they built such an awesome machine that I haven't needed any. ![]() For DS ![]() ![]() Edited by Nomad1970 - 06 Jun 2013 at 6:25pm |
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Onkel_Ken ![]() DS Veteran ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2961 |
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Great news Nomad! I have had mine for several years with no trouble. I just ordered an EVGA Titan SC to replace an old EVGA GTX 295 today. You will find that your system will still be great if you want to upgrade in a few years to the latest and greatest.
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Tidgxor ![]() DS ELITE ![]() The Kokopelli kid ![]() Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13000 |
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Here's to many more months (Years) of such experiences!
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My Two Digital Storm Rigs: Mr. Bojangles (HAF-X, 2010) & Mrs. Bojingles (Bolt I, 2013).
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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Time for a three year update.
About 3 months in I had some BSODs that were tracked down to a bad memory module. DS replaced that free of charge( I paid shipping as usual ). After I installed the new RAM modules I still had a few BSODs. It took a bit but reducing my OC from 4.3 to 4.2 took care of that. I guess the new memory modules were not quit a good as the first ones. No problem since I really can not see any difference. The only other problem I have had is the front fan on my HAF X died and I had to replace it. Easy to do and didn't even bother DS about it. I am still extremely happy I went with this custom rig from DS. Most computers will have a hiccup or two and mine is no exception. I have recommended DS to other potential customers and will continue to do so. I also added a second SSD ( a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB ) with no problems at all. It was on sale last Black Monday for $77.00. This give me lots of space to put games and eliminates the need to swap files. Edited by Nomad1970 - 06 Mar 2016 at 12:23pm |
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Wow.. thanks for the update!
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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I guess it is time for a four year update. No new problems cropped up this year, although I thought I had one. One of the top fans quit working, so I bought two new ones. When I went to install them I found that the plug on the one not working was loose and the fan was fine. So I do have two new 200m fans for a HAF X.
I am pretty sure that I will be updating my GPUs this year. I plan on replacing my two GTX 670s with a single GTX 1080 ti. I am waiting for the EVGA three fan version to become available and to see if the reviews are favorable. Still extremely happy with my DS purchase. |
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bprat22 ![]() DS ELITE ![]() DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) ![]() Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391 |
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Great to hear.
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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I received my new EVGA GTX1080 Ti SC2 today and installed it. I had no real problems, I did have to figure out the release button since I had never taken out a newer video card. I installed the drivers from the disk that came with the card and after a bit of set up, everything ran fine. I ran a Heaven 4.0 benchmark and these are the results. The temp maxed out at 78C and the fans at 2553 RPM. I have not done any tweaking of any kind and I think I probable will not do much.
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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Here is a Valley benchmark
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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and the comparison one form my 2 x 670s
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bprat22 ![]() DS ELITE ![]() DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) ![]() Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391 |
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Congrats.
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Tidgxor ![]() DS ELITE ![]() The Kokopelli kid ![]() Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13000 |
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Nice.
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My Two Digital Storm Rigs: Mr. Bojangles (HAF-X, 2010) & Mrs. Bojingles (Bolt I, 2013).
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Nomad1970 ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716 |
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It looks like it is time for my 5 year update.
I think that my original Corsair SSD is getting a bit flaky. I couple of months ago I did a shutdown and when I restarted the computer it came up with no boot sector. So i reinstalled Windows and things looked fine. But lately I have noticed some jerkiness in mouse movements and such. So I took out that SSD and put in a new Samsung 850 EVO I had bought. Windows loaded fine and I had done all of the updating and such when it also would not boot up. I put the Corsair back in and things work OK, but I still think there is a small problem. I have purchased a new Samsung 860 Pro SSD and will be doing an install in the near future to see if it clears up any of the small problems I see. I did install that Samsung 850 in another slot and did a format and it seems to work fine, just not sure what happened. All in all, it still is a kick ass machine for being 5 years old, although I have updated the GPU, but I am sure the original 2 X GTX 670s would still be fine. I did luck out and purchased my 1080 Ti before the prices went haywire. If I ever do buy another computer, it will be from Digital Storm without a doubt. |
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Tidgxor ![]() DS ELITE ![]() The Kokopelli kid ![]() Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13000 |
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Thanks for the update, I really enjoy hearing about "older" machines that are still kicking.
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My Two Digital Storm Rigs: Mr. Bojangles (HAF-X, 2010) & Mrs. Bojingles (Bolt I, 2013).
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