I want a gaming Machine. Maingearm Digital Storm, Origin Pc, or Falcon Northwest?

Armaan Zabihi

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Hey guys, first of all I DO NOT WANT TO BUILD A COMPUTER FOR GAMING. I dont have the time to put it together and I hate having lack of support. Anyways, I was looking at some of the Boutiques out there. I really like the Maingear Shift, Origin Mellenium, Digital Storm, and Falcon Northwest Tiki. Have any of you had experience with these companies? Im leaning towards Maingear but Im a little worried about the Negative Reviews. Could you guys please tell me which system is quiet? Thanks. Im really confused and Im not very techy... Sorry 4 bad english
 
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Hello There, these are my Opinions.

Here is A Scorecard:

PC Orientation

Origin PC: +1
Digital Storm: 0

I really like the 90 degree ATX mounting of the board and really don't like inverted ATX.
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Color

Origin PC: +1
Digital Storm: 0

Another One Point For Origin PC. The Design is good and the neuron design and I LOVE it.
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Components (If there's alot or not)

Origin PC: +1
Digital Storm: 0

Another ONE POINT FOR ORIGIN PC!!! There's lot of choices that you can choose. The Storage Drives, Peripherals, and etc.
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Shipping

Origin...

austing

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If you have 2 hours, and know how to plug in a Nintendo cartrage, you can build a PC.

But I digress.

Maingear isn't as big as the other companies, so their warranty service wont be as good as the others.

Origin is a very expensive dealer, they also have the best service IMO.

Digital Storm is about the same as Origin.

The Tiki however, its a great machine small, compact, and will make lots of dust.

The most quiet is probably the Tiki, it only has 4 fans including the graphicscard fan.
 

Deadly_Ramon

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Origin, Maingear, and Digital Storm are all great boutique vendors, but Falcon Northwest is my favorite. It was the first true PC custom builder for gamers on the cutting edge, inspiring all of the others you mentioned. I last month (May 2013) purchased a Talon system from it, and have been very satisfied with the machine. At the same time one of my local friends built his own machine, and he had an issue where one of his four memory sticks wasn't being recognized, so he had to spend several days diagnosing his machine before discovering that his motherboard was to blame, and he barely made it under the 30 day Newegg replace-or-return policy by that time. In my case, Falcon ran an extensive 3-day torture test before declaring the system stable and worthy of being shipped. It arrived at the promised time (just over 3 weeks from when I ordered it), and I've now been using it for just under 3 weeks without any issues whatsoever!

I paid a total of $4230, which includes standard shipping and an extended 3 year warranty which I doubt I'll ever have to use. My system specs are: Falcon Northwest Talon with Windows 7 64-bit Professional, Asus P877Z-V Z77 motherboard, Intel i7-3770K 3.5 GHz overclocked to 4.2 GHz, Asetek 120mm liquid cooler, 32 GB (4x8 GB) of Crucial DDR3 RAM 1866 MHz, EVGA Geforce GTX Titan with 6 GB of VRAM, Sound Blaster Recon 3D Fatal1ty Champion, SSD Crucial M4 512 GB, Western Digital Green 3 TB, 2 Asus DRW DVD+- optical drives, Silverstone 1000w modular, integrated LAN, Steelseries World of Warcraft mouse, Samsung SyncMaster 940BW, and a Microsoft Sidewinder x6 keyboard. The only parts cannibalized from my previous system are the mouse, keyboard, and monitor.

I would have purchased a Tiki instead, but it hadn't any room for a discrete sound card. I'm sure the onboard sound is fine for its default small form factor motherboard (the Asus P8Z77-I deluxe), but I really wanted that separate Sound Blaster card. In addition, the Tiki could accomodate a maximum of 16 gigabytes of RAM, and I really wanted 32. Finally, it can't accomodate an additional video card. I purchased just one Titan for my rig, but am open to purchasing another later on should I grow more comfortable with the concept of SLI. For now, all of the games I play (including Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, World of Warcraft, Metro Last Light (got it free for ordering an NVidia card) and so on) are run at maximum settings without a hitch!
 

chrissszy

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Falcon Northwest is IMO the best PC builder out there. If you don't have George Clooney money (he's a fan) their Talon line is very competitive with other custom builders. I bought two Talons years ago for about $1100 each and am looking at a very nice rig for under $1900 right now. Their tech support was great, whether solving some problem over the phone or returning two parts that failed under warranty. My first Talon had similar parts to the PC I used at work at the time and ran rings around it. Great company.
 

ace5968

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Hello There, these are my Opinions.

Here is A Scorecard:

PC Orientation

Origin PC: +1
Digital Storm: 0

I really like the 90 degree ATX mounting of the board and really don't like inverted ATX.
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Color

Origin PC: +1
Digital Storm: 0

Another One Point For Origin PC. The Design is good and the neuron design and I LOVE it.
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Components (If there's alot or not)

Origin PC: +1
Digital Storm: 0

Another ONE POINT FOR ORIGIN PC!!! There's lot of choices that you can choose. The Storage Drives, Peripherals, and etc.
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Shipping

Origin PC: +1
Digital Storm: +1/2

Good thing about the Origin is it comes with a CRATE. So The contents are SAFE. DS is good too so i give it a half
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Maintenance

Origin PC: 0
DS :+1

The Quick detach pipes are i think the best add-on to your Liquid Cooling System (I like to call it LCS)
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Service:

Origin PC: +1
DS : +2

YES! PLUS TWO FOR DS!!! Their Service is really Outstanding they answer all of my questions.
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Different Types of cases:

Origin PC: 0
DS : +1

There are 8 different types of case design in DS. While Origin only have 3 excluding Laptops and workstations.
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Cooling Design:

Origin PC: 0
DS : +2

YES, Plus 2 for DS because of their SUB-ZERO COOLING the CPU temp. reach -15 degrees CELSIUS. There are also Copper Pipes and Acrylic Tube if you want that feature.
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So I think that's pretty much it for now, there is more coming but i gotta sleep now. It's already 9:30 PM here. So, Good Night And I See you guys Tommorow!
And the Other 2 companies i did not know em' so i can't answer them......yet.






 
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