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AVADirect - one reason - quiet

Maingear - would do wonders for my BOINC credits especially with AMD oriented GPU projects

Digital Storm - would do wonders for my GPUGRID credits.
 
Maingear Aesthetics are just amazing and the hardware is mind-blowing!
Digital Storm a luxurioiusly simple second pick with hardware still beyond what i can fathom owning
Falcon the perfect Green (read NVidia!) Machine!
 
1. Maingear - Beauty and the Beast rolled up into one.
2. Falcon NW - When you need to "frag" people on their home turf.
3. Digital Storm - Blinded me with Science and neon yellow.
 
1st: Puget systems: 4x virtual gaming systems + acrylic for the win!
2nd: CyberPower PC: Clean case, affordable (compared to the rest).
3rd: NCIX: Balanced build, still shiny.
 
The Maingear system, Digital Storm, and Falcon Northwest are my top 3 pics.. I like the good looks and appreciate compactness too. :)
 
I want the Digital Storm Aventum I will name the system : LOTS (Landru's Over the Top System) :) second: Puget Systems Multi-Headed VMWare Gaming PC. Third: Maingear Force
 
1. - Ava Direct

2. - Origin PC

3. - Exotic PC

These system are all top end, but I like the aesthetics of these three the best, they're clean and stand out, but not gaudy or prohibitively expensive.
 
Since the entry page has no place to put my list:
AVADirect = SHHH!
Maingear = (If they only had done gold accents with the red......)
NCIX = (Canada???)
 
The Pudget system. Your listing of price only has 32gb of memory, not 64, and is a case, not the acrylic. :*(
But will judge based on info placed and picture. Because they rock!

Now to the picks.

1. Puget Systems: Glass Canon. Best cpu, only one to sport 64gb memory (finally), evga power supply. And it turns into 4 comps if needed. So much potential with the acrylic enclosure, wish their were more of these. And the colors possible!

2. Digital Storm: In no way would I ever be able to afford such a thing, but the looks, fantastic. It's my number two simple because of it's unlikely to purchase price tag. Yellow isn't my favorite color, but it's manageable.

3. MainGear: Gotta love that cooling work. If that was stuffed into the color green scheme of the first with green coolant, it would place this as my number 1.
 
my top three are:

1) NCIX
2) AVADirect
3) Digital Storm

I like how NCIX is sort of middle-of-the-road. Not cheap, but not insanely expensive. AVADirect is a nice-looking "budget" choice. Digital Storm is kind of nuts, but a gorgeous beast. CyberPower PC would have been on my list, but I knocked them off for putting in an AMD card. Sorry AMD!
 
Hmm, the entry page does not have an area to list three. Would have made more sense to create a poll.

1: Digital Storm

I have used MSI products for years and have become accustom their yellow scheme for overclocking. I think yellow looks fantastic with white, thus the DS color scheme really catches the eye. Oh, and the four GTX Titan Blacks... cannot go wrong there! I am a little disappointed to see 840 Pros in the build. Perhaps the 850 was not released by the time they got the build together.

2: Maingear

I am normally not a fan of red and black (EVERYTHING is red nowadays along with black). However, it looks like they are using rigid tubing which looks great on its own and the layout is great.

3: Origin

The price alone is messed up. 2 Titan Z's while still making the whole build come in right around 10k. I personally think the case is fugly but it is still packing a 5960x inside of it and two beastly Titan Z's. Goes to show that sometimes looks are not everything (at least when it comes to computers).
 
CyberPower for price/ component choice, Puget for originality, and Falcon for appearance.

If I were to ever buy a prebuilt, it would probably be a Falcon NW. Buying something you could build yourself makes no sense, but and fully custom cases are impossible to maintain, so a custom painted and mildly modified case is all positives except for the cost.
 
Puget Systems - I use my computers mostly for media creation and so large amount of RAM, the CPU speed and the number of cores, and fast SSD's are very important. This PC seems to hit all those points in a big way for me. The Graphic cards are less important for me, but again this configuration is top notch in that department as well. Great system!!!!

Falcon Northwest - This one also hits on almost all my fronts. Great CPU, good amount of RAM and SSD drives. Although not as good as Puget System, this one is a close second in my book.

Digital Storm - This PC is the coolest looking of my 3 contenders. I like the CPU and the overclock; I like the RAM, but this one falls little short in the SSD department. But it does look great!!!!
 
My favorites, in order shown

1. Digital Storm- Very powerful and looks great. But, for $12k /I'd expect RAID 10.
2. Falcon Northwest- Nice job fitting that much power in so little space
3. Maingear- Beautiful tubing, but why AMD GPUs?


 
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