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    PCSPECIALIST Arrived! Gaming PC

    (continued) Open up the case, and there's the padding: Easy to remove. Now I could see just how much extra space this case has: Here's the GPU beastie. Quite normal-looking: And here's the CPU cooler: That's where the minor problems started. It was wobbling around terribly...
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    PCSPECIALIST Arrived! Gaming PC

    Well, the waiting is over... Ordered Thurs 8th February Reached "Pre-Production" Tue 13th February Went straight to "Testing" Fri 23rd February Dispatched Monday 26th February Arrived Tuesday 27th February. What arrived was a very hefty cardboard box. The cutouts on 2 sides of the box aren't...
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    PCSPECIALIST Awaiting delivery tomorrow...

    At last... ;) In case it helps anyone else waiting impatiently out there, here's the back-story with dates: Ordered Thurs 8th February Reached "Pre-Production" Tue 13th February Went straight to "Testing" Fri 23rd February Dispatched Monday 26th February. (so it seems PCS managed to test, QA...
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    PCSPECIALIST GOG sale - ends in 5 hours

    While waiting for my build to get through the Pre-Production queue, I took a look on GOG.com last night. They're having a sale (ends in about 5 hours). I picked up 11 games for about £50 :yes:
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    PCSPECIALIST What do you do while waiting for PCS to build your Precious?

    Hello everyone. I'm very pleased about the advice I got over in the Check This Spec forum. I've definitely got a much better build thanks to the suggestions there. Last week I finally plucked up the courage, pressed the Big Red Order Button on the build (link: end of this thread) and saw c...
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    PCSPECIALIST Windows 10

    Hi I'm coming to the end of deciding on my spec (thread here). One thing I'm still trying to decide: Win10 or no Win10 (install Win7 myself). I'm pretty handy with installations, BIOS fiddling etc: but I do see the advantage of having PCS set up the OS with all the correct drivers etc. One...
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    PCSPECIALIST Grateful for any comments on this spec

    Hi Thanks to anyone who takes the time to tell me what they think of this spec. One thing I'm not sure about is the Samsung EVO SSD: very well-reviewed, but I haven't been able to find out whether the ASUS TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING mobo actually supports NVMe: if it doesn't, spending that much on...
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