| Case: | Lian-Li V2100 Plus Silver CASE (NO PSU) |
| Cabling: | Standard Cable Management |
| Fans type: | Non-LED fans |
| Cooling: | Premium Cooling System (2-4 Fans with digital controller) |
| PSU: | Enermax Galaxy Modular DXX 1000W PSU |
| Motherboard: | Supermicro X7DWA-N Dual XEON 771 1600MHz |
| CPU: | (2x) Intel Xeon 5482 (4x3.2Ghz 1600FSB 2x6Mb) Passive |
| CPU Cooling: | (2x) Stock Heatsink with fan |
| Memory: | (4x) 2048Mb DDRII 667MHz CL5 ECC Fully Buffered (Kingston) |
| Hard Drive: | 150Gb Raptor 10000 16mb E-SATA |
| Storage HD: | (2x) 750Gb Barracuda 7200.10 16mb Cache SATA II NCQ |
| RAID Card: | Adaptec 1430SA 4xSata PCIe x4 Raid Controller |
| Graphics: | BFG Nvidia 8800GTX OC 768Mb PCIe HDCP |
| Optical Drive: | SONY-NEC Optiarc AD-7173A 18x DVDRW Silver OEM |
| Optical Drive 2: | none selected |
| Floppy Drive: | Icy Box 16-in-1 internal/external USB Card reader (Silver) |
| PCIe Device: | none selected |
| PCI card: | WinTV-HVR-4000 Quad-mode TV tuner |
| Sound Card: | Integrated High Definition Audio with Digital Out |
| Operating System: | Windows XP Professional SP2 OEM |
| Secondary OS: | Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit DVD OEM |
| OS Extras: | X-Image on 2.5" USB 120Gb HD and Vista optimisation |
| Building: | Standard Build (5-15 working days) |
| Warranty: | Deluxe 1 Year Collect and Return-Onsite Warranty (+1 year RTB) |
| Packaging: | Heavy-duty packaging (Full Towers - 80x80x40) |
Custom Nexus-Intel-D771W2-PCIe2 system 35844
£4441.64 (ex VAT)
£5218.93 (inc VAT)
£5218.93 (inc VAT)
Testimonials
By Ed Peach
Date Added: Saturday 08 March, 2008
From my perspective, Vadim deserves a 90% mark. Nearly perfect but not quite. Here are my rankings of the whole process from start to end. Pre-sales - excellent support, and reasonable advice. However, if you are going to go for a custom build you should be aware that you should have some technical expertise. i.e you should not be afraid to open the box and do some tweaking, maybe even some minor rewiring! My one area of complaint is in terms of USB connectors - I have a personal dislike of external hubs (two extra trailing wires). Vadim should really do an assessment of how many motherboard USB connectors are going to be consumed and advise if an Internal USB hub is recommended. My motherboard had six connectors, but I only finished with one front panel port despite the case having provision for three. This drags my ranking in this section down to 80%. Build Phase - excellent support and feedback. I was kept informed of delays in getting the required CPU's and given frequent updates. Vadim were very accommodating in taking on board some late additions from me. This phase deserves a 100% ranking. Build Price - Vadim are not cheap, go somewhere else if you want cheap. However they ARE competitive. My grown-up son ordered a nearly identical spec model from Apple, and prices were comparable once allowance for a few extra goodies for me were included! Delivery dates were nearly identical. So a 100% ranking? Build Quality - due I think to the rush to finalize my machine (I had set some timing deadlines) a few tiny faults resulted ( a couple of case light connectors were the wrong way around), and not spotted in the final quality check. I am willing to bet that these would have been caught if Vadim had had there normal 48 hour check prior to shipment. I was also a little upset that I lost one of my front panel USB ports to the m-Cubed T-Balancer which is only used on initial system set-up. A little foresight and a minor wiring change would have obviated this irritation. Bottom line a 90% mark. Post delivery Experience - a totally stable quiet workstation that looks great. Even Vista was set-up to give a reasonable out of the box experience. My dual boot XP was set up perfectly as was the back-up image. 100% for operational experience.
Date Added: Saturday 08 March, 2008
From my perspective, Vadim deserves a 90% mark. Nearly perfect but not quite. Here are my rankings of the whole process from start to end. Pre-sales - excellent support, and reasonable advice. However, if you are going to go for a custom build you should be aware that you should have some technical expertise. i.e you should not be afraid to open the box and do some tweaking, maybe even some minor rewiring! My one area of complaint is in terms of USB connectors - I have a personal dislike of external hubs (two extra trailing wires). Vadim should really do an assessment of how many motherboard USB connectors are going to be consumed and advise if an Internal USB hub is recommended. My motherboard had six connectors, but I only finished with one front panel port despite the case having provision for three. This drags my ranking in this section down to 80%. Build Phase - excellent support and feedback. I was kept informed of delays in getting the required CPU's and given frequent updates. Vadim were very accommodating in taking on board some late additions from me. This phase deserves a 100% ranking. Build Price - Vadim are not cheap, go somewhere else if you want cheap. However they ARE competitive. My grown-up son ordered a nearly identical spec model from Apple, and prices were comparable once allowance for a few extra goodies for me were included! Delivery dates were nearly identical. So a 100% ranking? Build Quality - due I think to the rush to finalize my machine (I had set some timing deadlines) a few tiny faults resulted ( a couple of case light connectors were the wrong way around), and not spotted in the final quality check. I am willing to bet that these would have been caught if Vadim had had there normal 48 hour check prior to shipment. I was also a little upset that I lost one of my front panel USB ports to the m-Cubed T-Balancer which is only used on initial system set-up. A little foresight and a minor wiring change would have obviated this irritation. Bottom line a 90% mark. Post delivery Experience - a totally stable quiet workstation that looks great. Even Vista was set-up to give a reasonable out of the box experience. My dual boot XP was set up perfectly as was the back-up image. 100% for operational experience.
