3XS Order finally placed and excited :-)

[cactusjack]

I finally placed and paid for my order! After a lot of reading and thinking - a big thank you to everyone on the forum for their support and advice.

I have emailed Lee, hoping to replace LN45145 (EVGA 4GB GeForce GTX 670 NVIDIA Graphics Card - £398 inc VAT) with the cheaper and instock LN45146 (EVGA 4GB GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked NVIDIA Graphics Card - £390.80 inc VAT).

I have also read in previous posts that members of this forum get free delivery? Have e-mailed Lee about that too.


My system is listed below:


3XS Z77 Performance GTX - Custom Series - Updated June 2012

Corsair Carbide Series 500R, Black, Mid Tower Gaming Case
Scan 3XS System - 2 Year Warranty - 1st Year Onsite, 2nd Year RTB (Mainland UK)
1 Asus P8Z77-V Z77, Intel Z77 Chipset - SLI Ready & WIFI!
1 Intel Core i5 3570K, Ivy Bridge, 3.4GHz, Quad Core, 6MB Cache
1 Thermalright Macho Performance CPU Cooler
1 8Gb (2x4Gb) Corsair Vengeance LP, DDR3, 1600Mhz
1 4GB EVGA GTX 670, 915MHz GPU, 1344 Cores, 9208MHz, GDDR5
1 850W Corsair HX Series, Modular, (Dual GTX 680 & ATI 7950)
1 256GB Crucial M4, Marvell SSD, Read 500MB/s, Write 260MB/s
1 2TB Seagate Barracuda, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache
1 Pioneer DVR-S19LBK DVD Writer
1 Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 Gaming Sound Card with Headphone Amp!
1 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit - OEM
1 2 Years Scan Extended System Warranty (£1001 - £2000)
1 3XS System Delivery & Setup - Same as above plus all protective packaging removed from within the system, keyboard, mouse and monitor connected and powered on to the desktop.

[Vaad]

Free delivery you say... Hmm I had to pay £35 for mine.

[cactusjack]

Yeah - not sure about the free delivery - but had noticed it in previous forum posts. Not sure if it applies to 3XS orders. But have enquired about it anyway.

[dipzy]

Awesome specs mate Will you posting a build log or final pictures when its built?

[cactusjack]

Yep, once Scan deliver, I will post pics :-)

I can't wait!!! This will blow my nearly 4 year old Dell PC (with ATI 4850 card) out of the water!

[drharvey12]

Hi Cactusjack.

Looks like a great system!!!

Did you go for any overclocking in the end?

Just noticed there's something slightly odd about the details of the gfx card: 1344 Cores, 9208MHz, GDDR5

I think the 9208 is a misprint for something but not too sure what - I doubt it matters anyway!

Hoping to get mine back this week from the upgrade and waterloop rebuild - can't wait!!! It's sad but I'm looking forward to amending my sig on here, Steam and a few other forums!

I've found the sales team to be really helpful in answering all my questions about my build down to confirming Mobo BIOS and firmware revisions on SSD's.....always pays to check everything is set up exactly how you want.

Good luck with it all anyway.

[cactusjack]

Nope - didn't go for the overclocking in the end :-)

Yes - I noticed the misprint too - and originally thought wow - 9208!!!!

If Scan swaps the graphics card for the slightly cheap SC one - then all of my components should be in stock = quicker build time perhaps :-)

[cactusjack]

Got the 850 PSU incase I go SLI at some point in the future - thought I should future proof as much as possible.

[drharvey12]

I always try to over engineer on the PSU slightly if budget allows (actually - it's the first thing on my parts list so the budget always allows)!

My Corsair HX 1000 is still doing a great job and hopefully it will still be running my system 4 years and another upgrade from now

I ended up having to go for different graphics cards as they were out of stock (and still are) of the ones I originally wanted. I'm pretty sure that they let you know when they come to build it if they're still out of stock to offer alternatives if you want. Otherwise they will delay the build until the part you want is in stock.

FYI - I confirmed the other day with SCAN that they are using the latest firmware on the Crucial M4 SSD's I ordered which comes with a decent performance increase. I'm sure that it will be the same for yours too

[cactusjack]

Thanks drharvey.

I just need to find space now for the new PC - hmmmmm I see a book case that can go.

[cactusjack]

Didnt get any replies to the emails I sent on Friday, so I rang Scan today. Spoke to a very polite person in Customer services who has changed my graphics card to the super clocked 4GB GTX 670 - hopefully I made the right decision here with the SC version... I recall reading about a bad batch of 2GB SC EVGA cards a while back - hopefully these are safe

[drharvey12]

Hi Cactus,

I've got mine back from Scan now and it looks amazing. The build is amazingly clean considering the amount of cables and tubes that are in it.

I am so impressed with it I'll probably be posting some photo's of it at some point.

Scan were really amazing too as they were very happy to recommend minor tweaks to it which would improve the performance. They got me to change the Corsair 800D Sata backplate to a new version that supports Sata III to improve performance of my HDD's. Something that I hadn't thought of doing at all (and hadn't realised you could do). They really wanted my machine to perform up to spec and went out of their way to make it the best they could....within reasonable budget considerations

I honestly couldn't be happier with it!

Just been playing Skyrim with a whole heap of mods and it is gloriously smooth. It certainly doesn't appear that more than 2GBof VRAM are required for Skyrim at 1920x1080. I don't think there's any other texture mods I can get that I'm not already running that would improve it in any way. Certainly your 4GB GTX 670 will have bags of VRAM to run any mods you can get your hands on!

Anyway, hope you are as happy with yours as I am with mine

[Edit: It's definitely worth sticking Skyrim on your SSD if you can - the area changes are next to instantaneous].

[cactusjack]

Glad to see you are happy :-)

I received my build number today. Looks like I have to wait some more though due to stock issues :-(

[drharvey12]

Sorry to hear about the delay. Hopefully they'll get everything in stock again soon. Is the stuff that is out of stock anything that you would be happy to swap to?

As this sale is currently on there are some great deals on various bits at the moment. Sadly I'm out of money now or I'd have probably purchased a new keyboard and mouse

[cactusjack]

A few days ago I checked online and all the items were in stock. So I am confused. Although a couple of days ago, my chosen power supply disappeared from the Scan website. I rang them up and they said dont worry - since there will be a few in stock held back for building 3xs systems. I am confused therefore as to what is out of stock..... It's ok though - I can wait

[drharvey12]

Hopefully you won't have to wait too long!