Vanquish 5 questions

Case Drive Bays (4) 2.5” (4) 3.5” (3) 5.25”

As far as the motherboard & power supply, you'll need the more tech minded to chime in.

Hi nezzek...  If the mobo used , as in the past, is the Asus Z170-k or similar, then you'll have 6 x Sata ports mid-board for drives.  That includes your HDD, SSD and any optical drive like a DVD.    With your build you dropped the optical and HDD so you can add your drives.  

The total of 6x SATA includes the SATA e port which can be used as 2x SATA if no SATA e device.

Hope this helps. 

The psu is more than enough.   Drives use very little juice, a few watts,  and the 750 watt does give you decent overhead.  The gtx 970 can run on a 600 watt. 

The case fans are good, as-is.    Worse case, for cooling, best for quality and performance,  is they ship a custom card instead of the reference 970.  The reference single fan cards dump all the heat out the back and the Strix type, with multi fan, empty the heat into the case.   Even with the Strix, and using only one 970, the rig will cool just fine.   

When you order, stay in touch and let us know what you think. 

Yeah, I hear you.    When it comes to the mobo and cards, they do use whatever they can get from their suppliers for the Vanquish to meet demand and so stay a little less specific so they're not locked into a particular model.  The performance and quality stays the same or better.  Sometimes a Vanquish buyer thinks they're getting a reference 970, for example, but get the 970 Strix for no more money.  Not a bad deal. 

The case in the Vanquish is the Corsair 230T, if you want to Google it. 

Have fun. 

Latest Status, my order finally arrived today. Exterior box was undamaged, but the computer had shifted on the inside although no visible damage was seen. I unbox and everything seems ok. Then I look at the video card, not only didn't I get a better video card than the reference card (NVidia 970) I got a worse one, with only 1 display port while the site said it had 3. I call up and eventually get transferred to a tech who says either we (DS) have been installing the wrong cards in the vanquish line or the site is wrong. I explain that the 2 monitors I bought are both gsync monitor hence need display port connections. He agreed but it was after 5pm pacific at the time so he said another person will call me back tomorrow for an RMA. Now I have to ship it back from the east coast (5 business days) then they'll swap the cards, test (3 days) it and ship it again (5 days) so say 3 weeks before I get my pc.

On a side not I was a bit disappointed with the top of the case, while I figure that all the holes are for ventilation it looked so odd that I thought it was the bottom until I turned it over and saw the feet.

What bpratt22 mentions happens a lot but it is not very difficult to do a GPU R&R in case you have to, so you don't have to send the whole system back.

I have no problem swapping out a card but the DS tech was insistent that I ship back the computer. He didn't even mention that I could get the video card shipped.

I got the evga NVidia gtx 970 4gb card. It came with 2 dvi, 1 hdmi, andc 1 ds. The caps were all off which bothered me a little.

I have an issue with it just not being as advertised. Since there are 2 970's one with 3 dp and the other with 1 and 2 dvi just list it in the graphics card drop down and let the buyer choose, even if the price is different, we choose everything else with DS.

As for the case, it makes sense I just thought it just would look better. Never have liquid near my computer, hence the air cooler ;)

Hi nezzek,

Sorry to hear about your concerns. We do strive to keep specs as clear and updated as possible, but due to the various types of brands on graphics cards, it can be a challenge at times.

To make things easy, it would be better if we simply send you a different graphics card that allow you to connect your monitor. Feel free to send me an email "[email protected]" so I can look into this with the team along with your order number.

nezzek,

I received your email and I have responded. We're working hard on locating a card with three DisplayPorts for you. We will need to place an order with our vendor and wait for it to arrive to us and then for us to send to you.

I'm sorry for the situation, we have removed the 3x DisplayPort wording on the GTX 970 on our website.

Feel free to stay in touch via email so we can help take care of you. Thanks!

Love how fast the website got fixed!

   Now, aren't you glad you found Digital Storm?    They do work hard to correct any issues that pop up.   It's all about service in my book.

My pleasure.

Adventures can be fun, but nobody wants a new PC with issues.     Hopefully the replacement goes fast and smooth for you.

You can't use it until the new card?