Hello Mate,
Apologies for the late reply. Been extremely busy @ work
Yup I have been in touch with OCUK previously about putting up the pictures of my system for you guys to see. I think you might have a chance of seeing it today maybe sometime in the late afternoon. I'm not entirely sure if they will be listing the full parts along with the pictures as I'm pretty sure they are extremely busy at the moment.
I will also be posting my own review which would include my room and individual parts and how the rig runs and looks etc so you guys can see how the rig would look in a home environment etc etc. One thing to note though is that I'm still one of those guys who is learning more and more about computers on a daily basis and I'm no pro. Hopefully what I write would meet the standards here. But more on that when I post it up. I'm guessing I would be posting up the whole thing in the case section as there's where personal builds and staff builds have appeared historically but I'm not entirely sure if I will be posting the reviews of the individual parts (subject to my knowledge) in the same area but we'll see!
As Phil mentioned in the previous post, I have indeed got the Rampage Extreme 2, the 'black' Ram and the XFX Black Edition 5970.
The motherboard is watercooled. I'd say the picture of the motherboard being watercooled would more or less look exactly like the other system posted by Phil with the exception of a few bits and pieces from the Rampage Extreme 2.
My 5970 is also watercooled using a Black EK watercooling set with a nickle plate if my memory serves me correctly. The whole idea was to keep the black and white theme running as far out as possible. I had to buy a new desk but thankfully not new speakers (was planning to orginally but managed to save some money) to match the system.
My monitors would be - Samsung 2443bw x 3. i've also got a Dell Display port adaptor arriving at my home in 2 hours so it should all come together properly hopefully.
The one thing I wont mention yet I guess would be the colour of my coolant. Not sure how well it will be received in the forums and I guess I'll save it for the log...
I assure you that whatever colour codes you'd like i.e Tubing, Coolant, Ram, colour of the mobo blocks, mosfets, cables, fan colours and of course system specifications (subject to stock of course) I'm sure Phil and Richard could give you a quotation and to give you the best advice possible £ for £ to Performance. In terms of the system build time, I'd say I have myself to blame as some of the parts that I wanted had to be imported in to the UK so the time frame of which has taken to build my system would have been distorted with my requirements. Even then, Phil has always contacted me as soon as any news came in related to delays, stock surplus and ideas. My option to make additional changes were always kept open by them to ensure that I had the system built to exactly how I want it to be.
I have bought quite a number of items from OCUK over a year or two and I've never once had to return anything (except a £2.00 cable which didn't arrive due to the Royal Mail Strike). Of which I called OCUK to tell them about the situation and they sent one out to me immediately and I received it within 24 hours of my call.
Lastly, I'll be driving down with my wife to stoke on Saturday to collect my system so hey!
Hope that helps mate and my apologies for the wall of text
Kind Regards,
Sam
