Suggestions for DSO / config building

Alright let me preempt this by saying that I consider myself a DSO fanboy. You'll see some real evidence of this in the next week or two (), but i think that no one and nothing is beyond streamlining/critiquing. This is intended to help and support DSO.

Hard Drive Set 1: 1x (160GB Solid State (By: Intel)
Hard Drive Set 2: 1x (1TB Seagate/Hitachi/Western Digital (7200 RPM)
Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)

Internet Access: High Speed Network Port
Video Card: 2x SLI Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 4: Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System: CPU Only
H20 Tube Color: White Tubing

Edited by !ender_ - 13 Jun 2010 at 10:20pm

I say that mobo is WAY overkill, it was designed purely for overclockers to put under nitrogen I would recomend a asus p6td deluxe or a p6x58d if your intrested in sata 3 and usb 3. (However DST4ME recommends EVGA, but it's a personal prefrence, However it should be noted that EVGA mobo division isn't looking very healthy since most of their members have defected to sapphire.)

Edited by sirsiddius - 14 Jun 2010 at 8:46am

Hey Chill, my school's internet blocked out that picture, so I assumed you had some general suggestion and then a build.

I know how pointless it is to argue on the internet, so I'm going to stop this before it turns into a flame ware by preemptively claiming that I am an IGNORANT DOUCHE

Happy?

Lol guys calm down

First off, wow, I am impressed with !ender_'s post!

Just as a side note, we're planning to do a site wide layout update tomorrow which will make it easy to navigate our website, forums, etc...

You definitely provided some great feedback that I am going to take back to our development teams. I wanted to provide my feedback on them as well.

Originally posted by !ender_ ...its time to delete the half dead descriptions on the main page, to me, i feel this could leave a really bad first impression for a new customer. those build. those names arent even used any more

I wish it was that easy, our development team does not want to get rid of the content at the home page as this is for content search advantages. However, we'll be removing the old model names such as '850si' etc...

Originally posted by !ender_ The chassis links could use some more choices, smaller thumbnails and another row of 6 should be enough, especially including the 932 and new hafx

Definitely! We're working on them actually, it just takes a lot of time to prepare the builds, take pictures, make sure the shots are good and edit them.

Originally posted by !ender_ This seems to come up daily, the "dso certified" power supply option seems a little vague. I dont personally feel it would be too hard to either give links or mini descriptions to the current in-stock options or give us a good description of what it takes to be certified, like a minimum volt/amp spread, heat, noise, etc

Valid point and a good one. We're planning to create 'More Info' links for all of the items on the configurator with pictures soon.

Originally posted by !ender_ the "chassis airflow" option has been getting REALLY bashed in the forums, i think it needs several fixes

I understand that some cases might not use all of the fans, and other settings. We're planning to resolve this shortly. Thank you for the feedback.

Originally posted by !ender_ Again to neatness, this one is a little more involved, but i think this would be very beneficial too, I think that there should be a button on the right side that says "get help from the DSO community" or something close to that. even use it to replace live chat and the expert guide buttons. Have this button bring the user to post for the config section that is already laid out...

This is one of my favorite suggestions! I love this idea. Including a few questions such as what will you be doing with this system, resolution, budget, etc... will allow this to be a killer tool.

Originally posted by !ender_ I think this has been half answered, but a better description of the warranty, especially the limited warranty vs the platinum warranty is needed.

As of right now, the warranty term is written on the 'Limited Warranty' configurations. We actually have a change coming up soon. I won't speak too much of it but, we're planning to offer aggressive pricing on everything, including Black|OPS (without the 3 year parts warranty of course).

Originally posted by !ender_ the entire customer care section could be written as a paragraph instead, include the same links, have better info and a thumbnail or two, it would be a lot neater looking and easier to read

I'll pass this over and we'll see what we can do.

Finishing off, I would love to hear more feedback from anyone to improve Digital Storm for our customers.