V3 Gaming PC

I recently ordered a customized pc from v3 gaming and have had an excellent experience. They were the best priced gaming pc when compared to all the other competition, including maingear, originpc and the like.

Chuck worked with me through customizing a PC that optimized my bang for my buck. They cabled and tuned it exactly how I wanted. They were also very receptive throughout the setup of the PC. I would call periodically to see how it was coming along, or what the overclocking was looking like. Chuck was responsive and talked with me like it was no issue at all. I get the feeling that they put customer service as #1...which is good as they are competing with some hard hitters. I got a i7 2600K and they also added in some extras to make up for the intel issue that was going on with the 3 Gbps SATA connections on the mobo.

I received my PC when it was expected (about 2 weeks, including UPS ground across the country), the packaging was great and protective. I ordered the 3D Convoy, so both the pc and the monitor came perfectly intact.

The performance of the machine is AWESOME! Fully booting up into windows takes around 45 seconds or so....and I can be in Call of Duty within 15 seconds, its nuts! I'm sure that has to do with a striped SSD drives, but its still great.

I originally encountered an issue with the bios settings that slipped by the burn in because it has to do with cold booting. Chuck and George both worked hard to get in touch with Asus tech guys and get a resolution. They called me at off hours to work through the problem and fixed it! So as far as tech support goes, they are great as well. I know George has taken what was learned into account so it doesn't impact other customers.

All in all, my experience was v3gamingpc was amazing. Both Chuck and George are very friendly and great to work with. I have been recommending them to all my friends and wanted to write an article here as well. I have no real benefit from doing so, except that I hope they are successful so I can buy my next pc from them!

I bought the Salvo, because I like the options it provided, and wanted to keep the price below $2200.

I ordered it, and received it roughly three weeks later. I was extremely pleased by the packing materials, because it had to travel all the way to Canada, so I was slightly worried about it getting damaged. But it came completely intact.

The computer itself has been very well constructed, and is fast as hell. Cold booting to Desktop in about 6 seconds on a single SSD. It absolutely destroys everything I run on it with ease. This beast is outperforming an Alienware that a guy from my old I.T class purchased 8 months ago for $4200.

Chuck is the best customer service rep that I have EVER dealt with. He was honest, gave me tons of information and help in the final tweaks of my build. He was very quick at responding to my emails, and getting my missing monitor found and sorted out.

I use this computer mainly for gaming and 3D modeling and Rendering on Blender 3D and CryEngine 3 SDK. I'm very happy with this computer, and I'm definatly going with V3 for all my future PCs. Completely worth the investment.

Well in was in the market for a new pc after my old one kinda,, exploded.... So i contacted v3 and told them what i was after, they made a few suggestions on (go from 32 to 64 bit) and stuff, i am not computer tec so they helped me out ALOT. the pc has gone for a month with NO problems, the pc has even better performance than i could have imagined. I can play games on ultra high graphics that my old pc would not even play on LOWEST! and my old pc wasnt that bad either... The shipping was incredibly fast and he sent it all the way to Australia! v3 gaming are the #1 place for all your gaming pc needs :) thanks chuck for all your help and support :)

After a poor experiance with CyberPower, (they don't even check out a PC before shipping) I feel they are now more interested in the mass market of Walmark, K-mart, etc, than building good machines for their direct purchase customers, I was concerned about V3. Turns out, I needn't have worried about this company, great customer service and product. As proof to the kind of performance they can build into a PC, my Passmark bench score for my 3 year old 1.6 ghz PC was 261.2, my new V3 rocked out a 3601.2. I am not a gamer but intend to use this PC for video editting of 1080P HD. I haven't had a chance yet to do serious editting, but in just installing the massive editting program, the old PC took forever to install and the new one pulled off the same chore in seconds. If the new V3 performs as I'm sure it will, then I will share my results with the folks on the GoPro forums. I believe for serious video editting you need a purpose built gamer type PC and V3 not only does that but the difference in both shipping packaging and cableing inside the PC is a night and day difference of the same from CyberPower. And I also got a follow up email to make sure I am happy with my V3. I too was drawn to V3 by the very favorable reviews in the major PC publications. As small as V3 is, they sure have the respect of both me and those major PC publications. Go ahead and buy from V3, you will not be disappointed. For you tech heads that want to know what configerations produced those big PassMark numbers, I'll post what V3 built for me below......

Chassis : V3 Dark Fleet CONVOY Chassis by Antec
Chassis Cooling : V3 Ultra Cyclonic Positive Pressure Airflow System
Exterior Finish : Midnight Black
Power Supply : 750W Corsair SLI/CrossFire Ready 80 Plus Power Supply
Graphics Card 1 : NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 570 1280MB @732MHz w/PhysX (+230)
Graphics Card 2 : None (-160)
Dedicated PhysX (Nvidia Cards Only) : NO
Motherboard : MSI® P67A-GD65 SLI/CrossFireX w/USB 3.0, Dual SATA 6Gb/s and Firewire (+40)
Processor : INTEL® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40GHz (3.80GHz Turbo) Quad-Core Unlocked, 8MB Cache w/HT (+170)
Processor Cooling : V3 GAMING LC120ZS by Asetek Zero-Service Liquid Cooling
V3 LC™ Launch Control Overclocking : YES, V3 GAMING Launch Control Stable Overclocking (K-Series Only)
Memory : 8GB Kingston HyperX Dual-Channel DDR3 (2X4G) - 1333MHz CL9 (+70)
Operating System Hard Drive 1 : 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6.0Gb/s MLC SSD Ultra-Performance (+280)
Operating System Hard Drive 2 : 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6.0Gb/s MLC SSD Ultra-Performance (+280)
Operating System Hard Drive RAID : RAID 0 - Striped for Faster Speed (Total Size = 2X Drive Size)
Data Storage Hard Drive 1 : 1.5TB SATA 7200RPM High-Performance (+110)
Data Storage Hard Drive 2 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive 3 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive 4 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive RAID : None
Optical Drive 1 : 24X Dual Layer SATA DVDRW
Optical Drive 2 : None
Media Reader : Internal 3.5in. Multi-Function Media Card Reader (+20)

I bought my V3 Convoy nearly two and a half years ago and I have been very happy with it. (NVIDIA Geforce GTX590 graphics card, Asus VG236H 23in LCD display, 3D vision kit, Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard, Intel i7 2600K 3.4 GHz processor, 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 RAM, two 64GB Crucial RealSSD hard drive, 500GB storage drive, overclocked). Up to this point I have been able to play every game I bought at ultra or very high settings. A few days ago I loaded Total War: Rome II, picked the ultra graphics settings and it has been running great. Batman: Arkham Asylum and City were great in 3D - my only complaint with 3D is that it only has moderate support from the development community, but my rig has done great with games that support 3D.

Just recently I did a fresh reinstall of Windows 7. I was starting to get weird little glitches in some programs - I think because of all the different things I have installed and uninstalled over the last couple years, as well as all the updates done by Windows 7 and other programs. Before I did the reinstall I contacted V3 to see if they had any advice since I had never done a reinstall of Windows 7 before. I was expecting a few tips and a Hope It Goes Okay, but they spent the time to type up detailed instructions that were specific to my computer - I was very impressed with the customer service on a computer that they last saw more than two years ago. I followed their instructions and the reinstall went great - all the glitches are gone and it feels like I have a new computer again. Other than the reinstall of Windows 7, the only maintenance I have done on the computer is cleaning the filters every few weeks - with the way the computer is set up, it only takes a minute or two to do that.

I gave this computer five-stars shortly after I got it, and I still give it five-stars. And this is an independent review - V3 Gaming did not ask me to write it.

Well it's been a little over one year since I ordered my V3 Convoy gaming PC. I can sum up most of my review right here: I bought a $5,000 (yes) Alienware computer a few years ago that was crashing since the first time I ever turned it on. For over two years I struggled with it and finally sold it for a fraction of the price. I then bought a $2,600 V3 Convoy and a year later I'm writing to tell you it's the most solid computer I've ever had (and blazingly fast for the money).

Now I said that covers "most" of my review. The rest is this: I had some questions about adding more RAM to the computer and I was having an issue with the computer not recognizing the RAM so I emailed Chuck from V3. HE FREAKING CALLS A FEW MINUTES LATER AT NIGHT ON A FREAKING SUNDAY. I have never IMAGINED such great customer service (even over a year after I bought the computer.). I've had everything from IBM, Dell, Gateway (Hateway), custom built, to the very most expensive Alienware, and none of their systems nor their technical support hold a candle to V3. I buy a computer about once every two years. I will be buying my next one from V3. Thanks team for making literally top quality computers affordable!!!

I've had my computer for about four months now, and all I can say is WOW!

I bought this after reading the reviews in PC World, and have not been disappointed. I was going to build my own PC, but they were able to match the total to what I was going to pay to do it myself, and although I didn't get the experience, I feel much more comfortable with the result.

The customer service was impressive. I placed the order on-line and they called back to clarify a few points, making a suggestion that I could do what I wanted and save a few bucks by selecting a slightly different motherboard model (they actually took less of my money!). I received the resulting PC in about three weeks.

I play WOW with my son, and he is simply jealous. I'm running with triple monitors on:

Chassis: V3 Dark Fleet CONVOY Chassis by Antec
Chassis Cooling: V3 Ultra Cyclonic Positive Pressure Airflow System
Power Supply: 950W Corsair SLI/CrossFire Ready 80 Plus Power Supply
Graphics Cards: (2) NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 570 1280MB OC@780MHz w/PhysX
Motherboard: ASUS® P8P67 Pro SLI/CrossFireX w/USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s,
Bluetooth and Firewire
Processor: INTEL® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40GHz (3.80GHz Turbo) Quad-Core Unlocked, 8MB Cache w/HT
Processor Cooling: V3 GAMING LC120ZS by Asetek Zero-Service Liquid Cooling
V3 LC™ Launch Control Overclocking: YES, V3 GAMING Launch Control Stable
Overclocking (K-Series Only)
Memory : 16GB Patriot Divison 2 - Xtreme Dual-Channel DDR3 (4X4G) - 1866MHz
CL9
Operating System Hard Drives: (2) 64GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6.0Gb/s MLC SSD Ultra-Performance in Raid-0
Data Storage Hard Drive: 1.5TB SATA 7200RPM High-Performance
Optical Drive: 10X Blu-ray Writer & DVDRW Combo w/LightScribe
Media Reader: Internal 3.5in. Multi-Function Media Card Reader
Audio: 8-channel High Definition Surround Sound Optical S/PDIF Out
Network Adapter: Dual 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless Adapter: Internal 802.11b/g/n Wireless-N WiFi Adapter
Operating System : Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Total price in April was about $3K

This is the best bang for the buck around. Period,

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