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The PC Specialist Vanquish Enforcer ships in a large, well padded box. A smaller chassis box houses the system itself, wrapped inside a plastic bag and protected with foam panels.
Another thin flat box contains all the left over modular power supply cables, a PC Specialist welcome guide and motherboard driver disc.
The company are using the CM Storm Enforcer case. I have to be honest, this isn't my favourite Cooler Master design, however it is well built and should withstand some rough handling.
Along the top are several USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. These flank a microphone and headphone jack. Underneath is a power button. There is a door underneath which opens up to expose the optical drive. PC Specialist have included a BluRay drive in this particular system, which is very useful if you want to watch the latest high definition films.
Underneath are some vents, which hide a very large intake fan.
The side panel is windowed – highlighting the system components inside.
At the top of the chassis – another large fan, configured in an intake position. This is unusual, as warm air naturally flows upwards and system builders tend to place a top mounted fan in an exhaust position. PC Specialist say they are trying to force as much cool air inside the chassis to enhance CPU cooling. The warm air is then all expelled out the rear of the case via the Corsair radiator fan.
Above the white exhaust fan are three rubber mounting watercooling holes.
The ASUS Z87-A is fully featured – including several USB 2.0 ports and four USB 3.0 ports. There are also several ports which are covered. These are DVI, HDMI and VGA connectors, covered intentionally so the customer will use the discrete graphics card underneath.
The Corsair HX750 power supply is mounted at the bottom of the case.
After removing the protective foam inside the system we can get a first look at the build quality, which is exceptional.
The Corsair Hydro H60 handles the Core i7 4770k at 4.4ghz. PC Specialist use Arctic Cooling MX4 thermal paste between CPU and cooler block to improve the thermal transfer efficiency.
The Nvidia GTX780 graphics card – very nice.
PC Specialist have only used some of the modular cables, the rest of them are safely stored in the peripherals box.
The Bluray drive is installed at the very top of the chassis and in the bay underneath we find the 240GB Kingston Hyper-X 3K Solid State Drive (with Windows 8 installed) and a 2TB mechanical drive, ideal for storage duties.
The 2TB drive in our review system wasn't accessible (not formatted), so we keyed in ‘diskmgmt.msc' in the search and set the drive up.
All of the cables are carefully routed in behind the motherboard tray, out of sight.
The cables hidden out of view are neatly routed along a path in the middle of the case – cable tied in place. Getting the side panel back on wasn't too difficult, but the cables do make contact, so a little force is required.
brilliant system, im sorely tempted to just not bother upgrading my system, could probably get £600 for my own still.
Hate spending weeks tuning the build, this one looks very nice inside.
Its a nice build, but I agree with author id spend a little extra for the cosmos IMO, well worth it.
Thats a good price working it out, its a very low overhead considering the wrranty. My mate would love this, will link him later
Not on their site 🙁 im interested to see the configurations available as I would like a differetent case – such as Corsair. have you any kitguru codes for reductions in price?
When will it update on their site on 2nd? i want this!
Thats a very good system build. I dont like some of the systems you review, but this is spectacular. Ill wait till it updates and see about working out a different configuration.
Shame PC SPecialist dont do a special deal for kitguru readers, like 5% off or something :p
Hey, quick one to let you know that they will be available to order at midnight tonight! We have a slightly different launch time to the media 🙂
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Kinda gutting the £1499 is purely for the stock model. Seeing this I thought I’d found my dream prebuilt system, a tweak to a nicer case as per reccomended. Going to configure the system seems to make the price jump up a good £250 purely for the pleasure of getting to spend more money on it.
Hey CH,
If you call our Sales Team, they’ll sort you out with the case of your choice 🙂
Great PC spec for the price but that case is hideous – I tried giving the sales guys a call to change to the Fractal R4 but they were only able to offer the CM Storm Enforcer at the price point, otherwise as CH pointed out. Putting an R4 on instead would add 200 odd quid on. Damn shame!
Can you make this possible to ship to Philippines?
looking at https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Vanquish-Enforcer/ its £1702 in vat not £1499
PC is good for sure! But 100% overpowered! Waste of ur money! Dont buy it.