PC Specialist Vanquish Enforcer Review (4770K/GTX780)

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.

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