At the far back of the facility is by far the largest of all of the buildings. It’s clear right away where we are though, this is the warehouse. Most people wouldn’t get too excited but for me, I was really curious to see what kind of hardware they keep on hand. Frankly I was a little shocked at the size of the warehouse, but they do have a lot of product going through. The warehouse is split up in to three areas. The area you walk into first runs the length of the building and is where all of the semi bays are. Although I got to this area well after the factory closed down for the day they did still have a few people here up and running. I’m sure that it gets much crazier in the time before UPS and FedEX show up as well. The second section is where everything is stored. I tried to get a picture to capture the size and amount of the bins, but frankly no one picture could fit it all in.
There are around 12 complete rows of bins along with a long bin that actually helps device this area from the bay area. Each bin is floor to ceiling for the most part allowing them to fit four full height pallets. Then each row is extremely long as well. On top of that important or high volume items are also stacked on the end of some isles for quicker access.
As you can imagine, their warehouse was packed full of both fully built systems as well as the parts that are needed to build them. I saw pallets and pallets of the new Bit Fenix Prodigy, Corsair’s new Vengeance C70 gaming case, and literally over an entire row top to bottom of the Cooler Master HAF 912 that they use for a lot of their builds.
The third and final are of the warehouse that we took a look at was their recycling area. Spending a little time in this area was actually depressing for me, but still a great representation of how the company operates. Systemax recycles anything and everything that they could possibly recycle both from the factory and their offices. That means we saw pallets of soda and pop bottles as well as paper. Then where I really was heartbroken, we also was pallets of motherboard, PSU’s, cases, add in cards/gpu’s, ect. It’s great to see that they are handling these things correctly, but it was still hard not to want to cover my walls in motherboards when standing next to them all.
You might call him obsessed or just a hardcore geek. Wes's obsession with gaming hardware and gadgets isn't anything new, he could be found taking things apart even as a child. When not poking around in PC's he can be found playing League of Legends, Awesomenauts, or Civilization 5 or watching a wide variety of TV shows and Movies. A car guy at heart, the same things that draw him into tweaking cars apply when building good looking fast computers.
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Nice facilities they have there. It's like the place I've always wanted to work, and they build computers too Odd place to put it though unless your trying to hide from all your enemies.
Ive been heading over there every October for the last 4 years or so. Im actually going to be there to meet our new sales rep and get the great swag that comes with their yearly Symposium. Its a nice facility.
L0rdG1gabyt3: So you probably saw my eyefinity BF3 beta setup/flight sim last year?
This year I'm thinking like four person deathmatch hosted on one of our servers. Maybe TF2 MvM.
I've got some good vendors coming out this year too.
Corsair, NVIDIA, Asus, and AMD should all be there who haven't been there in the past few years. MSI and Intel will be back as always. Probably forgetting a few guys.
Ultra products (accessories) have been majorly revamped too, there's a keen focus on getting it right. I'm fairly hard to impress, but they have some good guys working on that stuff now.
I never knew they were an Ohio company. I will certainly share that with friends and family looking for a retail system who are interested in supporting the local economy.
L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote: Funny you should mention it.... I actually missed last year because I was sick! But I am all registered and ready to go this year.
By chance who is your rep/who was your rep?
We started with Dennis Osbourn.. He had a midlife and left. Then we had Susie Merrill. She was really great. She just retired, and now we have Belinda ?Connors? (I believe thats her last name.) She seems very nice.
L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote: Funny you should mention it.... I actually missed last year because I was sick! But I am all registered and ready to go this year.
By chance who is your rep/who was your rep?
We started with Dennis Osbourn.. He had a midlife and left. Then we had Susie Merrill. She was really great. She just retired, and now we have Belinda ?Connors? (I believe thats her last name.) She seems very nice.
Odd place to put it though unless your trying to hide from all your enemies. 
