Just ordered Shift SS

[Seymour Bodies]

Well, on Monday I finally pulled the trigger. I've been meaning to for a while now,
but real life got in the way. I am no stranger to the boutique builders. I had an Alienware
back in the day, when Alienware was the real Alienware. My current and 4 year old pc is an
OverdrivePC, before they turned into Velocity Micro. While I personally haven't had any
trouble out of either of those companies, I don't like the direction either of them are going.
So here I am. Older and wiser. I have liked what I have seen and read about Maingear since I
first heard about you guys. And with that said, expectations couldn't be much higher.
Time to put them to the test. :D

About me you ask? I am a forty something year old gamer that can still get it done, and play almost on a daily basis.
I play just about every fps, and only fps's, that comes along. Been playing since the old days of Quake, Blood
and Unreal Tournament. And await new ones like Rage and Battlefield 3. I attend Quakecon (google it)
every year, and have for the past 10. Time to see if Maingear can get it done. ;)

All kidding aside, looking forward to what lies ahead. :)

The build:

Chassis: MAINGEAR SHIFT Chassis with Advanced Vertical Heat Dissipation with Window
Exterior Finish: Brushed Black Aluminum with Acrylic and Matte Black Accents
Interior Finish: Stock Black
Motherboard: Gigabyte® Z68X-UD7 Featuring USB 3.0, SATA 6G - 3-way SLI and CrossFire ready! [B3 Stepping]
Processor: Intel® CoreT i7 2600K 3.4GHz/3.8GHz Turbo 8MB L3 Cache GT2
Processor Cooling: MAINGEAR EPIC 180 Supercooler
MAINGEAR Redline Overclocking Service: YES! - RedlineT Overclock My System!
Memory: 8GB Patriot® Division2 Viper Extreme DDR3-1866 Enhanced Latency (2x4GB)
Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: NVIDIA®
GeForceT GTX 590 3GB GDDR5 w/ PhysX (will add another later)
Power Supply: 1200 Watt Silverstone ST-1200G 80+ Gold Certified Modular Power Supply ROHS
Hard Drive Bay One: 240GB Patriot® WildfireT SATA 6G (w/TRIM) [555MB/s Reads]
Hard Drive Bay Two: 1.0TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6G 7200rpm 64MB Cache
Hard Drive Bay Three: Pre-Wired SATA Backplane Expansion Bracket For Easy Upgrades
Hard Drive Bay Four: Pre-Wired SATA Backplane Expansion Bracket For Easy Upgrades
Optical Drive One: 24X Dual Layer DVD RW Drive w/LightScribe Technology
Optical Drive Two: 12X LG SuperMulti Blu-ray/DVD Burner with Software
Memory Card Reader: All-in-One Integrated USB 2.0 Flash Card Reader & Writer
Audio: Asus Xonar DX 7.1 Surround PCI-E
Network Adapter: Dual On-board Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
The Final Finesse: Designed, Manufactured, and Supported in the USA - Flawless Craftsmanship and Wire Management
Angelic Service Warranty: Lifetime Angelic Service Labor and Phone Support with 3 Year Hardware Warranty

[JohnnyRock30]

Congratulations!

[ChrisMorley]

Thanks for your business!

[Seymour Bodies]

Just curiuos, what are the stages the pc goes through, and at what point will I be notified in those steps? Thanks.

[Andy Hilton]

Seymour are you going to play SWTOR?

[Seymour Bodies]

Seymour are you going to play SWTOR?
Um, we'll see. I'm more into the "run n gun fps's, but I'll take a look at it.

[Seymour Bodies]

Well, I just got my shift up and running. So far, so good! One thing, I did not get the side window panel I ordered. How should I go about getting that?

[joshuallen]

I'd call customer support tomorrow and get them to quick ship it to you. Maybe take a picture just in case.

[Seymour Bodies]

Also, where can I check to make sure the overclocking made it through shipping?

[joshuallen]

Install something like CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html) or the Passmark demo (http://www.passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm) and see what scores you get. The native speed of the i7-2600k in turbo mode is 3.8Ghz, so if you get anything above that you should be set.

[Seymour Bodies]

All is good. They had called and left a message letting me know they didn't have any window panels in stock and
that they were gonna ship it anyway. I never check my messages on my land line, so I never got it.
They'll ship the panel later when it becomes available. I also checked about the overclocking.
Something I did not know, on idle/extremely light load its made to conserve energy by clocking down to 1600mhz.
Once you apply any real load you'll see it jump to its overclock. And I checked, it jumped up to around 4.6 when I applied a load.
I had originally checked cpu-z when the pc was idle.

Thanks to Danny Soares and Kevin DeOliveira for responding to my emails in a timely manner.

[CkY2K`kic]

Very nice build, congrats :)