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The PC Specialist Vanquish 670XM system arrives in a huge, plain cardboard box.
The bundle is impressive. PC Specialist include all the manuals for the motherboard, which can be useful as a reference point. There are also driver discs, power cables and adapters. The system itself it protected underneath a plastic wrap and secure foam side panels.
Our review sample uses the excellent Cooler Master HAF XM chassis, which we reviewed back in May this year. The appearance is serious, with vented front panels ensuring a high level of air intake.
The front panel is impressively featured, sporting 2xUSB 2.0 slots, 2x USB 3.0 slots in addition to the standard headphone and microphone jacks. Close by is a hexagonal front fan LED toggle, with Power & Reset buttons. There is a DVD optical drive underneath.
There are several vents on the right hand side (from back) side panel to help ensure the graphics card can remain cool. The other panel has no vents or fans.
The rear of the case sports three rubber grommets for water cooling support. Below them is a vent with an internally mounted 140mm fan, however the mounting system also supports a 120mm variant should you want to swap it.
At the bottom of the case is a quality TX650W Corsair power supply.
The PC Specialist Vanquish is a very clean system build with all cables carefully routed behind the motherboard tray. The Kingston Solid State drive is mounted vertically on the back of the motherboard tray.
The Spire Gemini Rev.3 cooler is quite large, although not that heavy, so it shouldn't cause a problem during shipping. The system is using high grade Kingston Hyper X gaming memory.
The 1TB hard drive is installed into the top drive bay. All cables are cleanly routed.
A few images showing the routing at the bottom of the motherboard behind the tray.
thats very nicely put together. good attention to detail.
Cooler Master case choice is good, they cool very very well without much noise., I have one !
Good build, impressed with the spec too, nothing ‘weak’ in it that seems to be them just clearing stock to ill informed customers
Cooler Master cases do use good fans, its a point that I liked to see being made. It sounds like such a minor thing to bring up, but I bought a Xigmatek case last year or 18 months ago and I had to replace all the fans in it. Some companies just buy the cheapest fans possible and try to maximise their profit. Long term it just doesnt work.