GERMANIUM

P1Fanatic · 31 Jan 2018 at 15:33

Our posts crossed.

I was disappointed to only get 2 mini bags of haribo. Got the same with a £4.99 mouse mat with free delivery last week lol

Shoeyuk · 31 Jan 2018 at 15:34

I am in the market for gaming rig and this looked like the ideal package and would save me the time of having to build it and have an nice overclock with a warranty

P1Fanatic · 7 Feb 2018 at 19:58

Shoeyuk said:
I am in the market for gaming rig and this looked like the ideal package and would save me the time of having to build it and have an nice overclock with a warranty

Got any further in your search? I am really happy with mine.

Shoeyuk · 7 Feb 2018 at 20:21

P1Fanatic said:
Got any further in your search? I am really happy with mine.

Yeah I’ve decided thats the machine I want, just gotta wait a month before I can order.

P1Fanatic · 7 Feb 2018 at 20:31

Shoeyuk said:
Yeah I’ve decided thats the machine I want, just gotta wait a month before I can order.

Sweet. If you have any more questions then let me know as did a fair bit of research before ordering mine.

Shoeyuk · 7 Feb 2018 at 20:38

Thanks it’s defiantly a great spec and config for the money and something that will last me a long time.

Just gotta be patient before I can order it. Did you change any of the configuration?

P1Fanatic · 7 Feb 2018 at 20:54

Shoeyuk said:
Thanks it’s defiantly a great spec and config for the money and something that will last me a long time.

Just gotta be paicent before I can order it. Did you change any of the configuration?

I only changed the case to the Phanteks Pro M Glass to save some money and for improved airflow. Only the regular Pro M (plastic and not full window) is in the germanium configurator but no issue to change. I was tempted to change to Gigabyte auros 7 mobo but stuck with asus all around for the aura rgb synch. Added some fan halos and 2 rgb strips. Those mobo, ram and 1080ti are all in synch now.

Shoeyuk · 7 Feb 2018 at 20:59

I was looking to up the ram to 32gb and drop the hard disk, as I got a 1tb ssd for storage I’ll drop in.

I quite like the look of the default case.

Shoeyuk · 7 Feb 2018 at 21:00

Still on the fence if I really need 32gb

P1Fanatic · 7 Feb 2018 at 21:06

If you can get it under £300 I would. I dropped the hdd also as already have a 850 evo ssd. Kept the default 960 evo nvme 500gb. Changed win 10 from dvd to usb as no optical drive specced either and so long since I upgraded pc I do not have win 10 already.

Shoeyuk · 8 Feb 2018 at 06:46

I have windows 10 licenses through work so will try to drop that, I know some places won’t sell overclocked without windows as they won’t be able to test the stability without windows installed.

I’ll call then an double check.

Zeetroyman · 8 Feb 2018 at 09:11

Yo Guys, I ordered the Germanium on Monday 5th

with the strix 1080ti. Ill stick up some picks of the unboxing etc when it arrives

For the guys who have already got one, did you get it on or after the 7 working days or did OC pull it out the bag and deliver early? Im soooo itching to get in about this rig!

The only gripe i have is that i have bought a few pre builds before from another company (A/Ware, before dell ruined them) and the build updates from them where fantastic. You had a web portal you could access which showed you which stage your build was at. PSU being fitted, system at OC / Burn test phase / QA / ready to ship etc. It would be a nice touch for OC to do similar as at the moment ive got a £2500 PC order that is "in progress"... us PC junkies need more info (so we know when to phone in sick to work

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orbitalwalsh · 8 Feb 2018 at 10:29

P1Fanatic said:
I only changed the case to the Phanteks Pro M Glass to save some money and for improved airflow. Only the regular Pro M (plastic and not full window) is in the germanium configurator but no issue to change. I was tempted to change to Gigabyte auros 7 mobo but stuck with asus all around for the aura rgb synch. Added some fan halos and 2 rgb strips. Those mobo, ram and 1080ti are all in synch now.

what im surprised at, no ones done an 'app/software' that can control vendors RGB allowing mixture of hardware ! NZXT would be a bit harder to include but think it would make someone a tidy profit if sold for £4 odd on steam etc .
did a zotac and asus build and managed to get them within 2 seconds change of eacher but still bugged me!

Shoeyuk · 9 Feb 2018 at 12:43

If you don't order the machine with windows installed as i already have a license, i assume its still comes overclocked and tested.

P1Fanatic · 10 Feb 2018 at 07:52

Shoeyuk said:
If you don't order the machine with windows installed as i already have a license, i assume its still comes overclocked and tested.

I would imagine they just remove windows after testing.

P1Fanatic · 10 Feb 2018 at 07:54

Zeetroyman said:
Yo Guys, I ordered the Germanium on Monday 5th with the strix 1080ti. Ill stick up some picks of the unboxing etc when it arrives

For the guys who have already got one, did you get it on or after the 7 working days or did OC pull it out the bag and deliver early? Im soooo itching to get in about this rig!

The only gripe i have is that i have bought a few pre builds before from another company (A/Ware, before dell ruined them) and the build updates from them where fantastic. You had a web portal you could access which showed you which stage your build was at. PSU being fitted, system at OC / Burn test phase / QA / ready to ship etc. It would be a nice touch for OC to do similar as at the moment ive got a £2500 PC order that is "in progress"... us PC junkies need more info (so we know when to phone in sick to work )

I ordered mine on a Friday mid morning and got the despatch email from OCUK and DPD the following Friday and it arrived on the Monday so 6 working days (not counting saturdays as I know they are open as a shop but doubt build staff are in). Mine had a few more changes to it so not a straight build from the configurator.

Zeetroyman · 12 Feb 2018 at 12:59

yep fanatic, ordered on Monday the 5th, dispatched Saturday the 12th... Its ETA is 2pm this afternoon for delivery

gaming area is prepped and ready for the unboxing!

Zeetroyman · 13 Feb 2018 at 08:51

ok guys system arrived yesterday and I must say, it is a work of art! looks absolutely stunning. slight issue though is that I cannot activate the OC profile. If I go into bios, advanced then tools, there is profile 1 called OCUK. There are no other profiles to select. the 8700K is at stock 3.7ghz. Any ideas? also there where no haribo's!

P1Fanatic · 13 Feb 2018 at 09:00

I only got 2 haribos same as I got with a £4.99 mouse mat with free delivery. Good for my waistline I suppose but none at all is poor.

I never had to activate mine. I was a little confused as have not been keeping up with PC’s for years and was never into overclocking. So I expected to just go into windows and run cpu-z etc and see my cpu clock showing as 4.9 stable. But with SSE / energy saving it only boosts when it needs to. If I run NZXT CAM I see peak clock hitting 4900.

Zeetroyman · 13 Feb 2018 at 09:04

cheers fanatic, ill do a bit of delving, its no biggie as the system was eating pubg

just need to transfer over my SSDs and the system is complete. now roll on sea of thieves so I can dominate the high seas