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By Mike McPeek

Falcon Northwest has long been at the cutting edge of building amazing gaming rigs, and the Falcon Northwest Mach V is no exception to what has become their rule: Make the best.

Standout Features

  • Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 video cards
  • 4 GB DDR3 RAM
  • 1 TB hard drive storage space
  • 3.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme Qx9770 quad-core processor





 

Features:   Excellent

We spec'd this particular Mach V with plenty of power to play whatever you want at pretty much whatever resolution, detail, and AA settings you desire; but we tried to keep it at less than 10K. If you desire, you can spec your own Mach V with raided solid state drives, additional storage drives, even more RAM, and believe it or not, up to three video cards, which might allow one to play Crysis and get over 50 fps!

Speeds and feeds on this Mach V include 4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM, two Seagate 500GB hard drives configured in RAID 0, and two Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 cards, combining their 896MB of memory to make a monstrous GPU. The Intel Core 2 Extreme Qx9770 runs four cores at a blazing 3.2 GHz. All this sits on what has become the defacto standard for high-end gaming motherboards, the Nvidia nForce 790i Ultra SLI. Cooling is accomplished with a Zalman CNPS7000b monster fan, assuring you don't burn out your sweet quad-core processor, and the case fans are of the Enermax Quiet Mag-Lev variety, helping to reduce the "airplane taking off" noises many high-end gaming PCs emit.

Summary:  

Expert benchmarking places the Mach V first in the majority of testing, coming in a close second in the rest. The Mach V is like a 250-pound linebacker that can run a 4.3-second forty yard dash, and with the blazing speed and 3 years of parts and labor support thrown in for free, and a year of Falcon Overnight service, you should make it your #1 pick.

 
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PCmag
Very Good
Two 512MB cards mean Doom 3 runs at Ultra quality...Liquid cooled means 4-GHz barrier is finally broken...Quality gaming experience...Single core faster at...Very, very expensive...

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Maximumpc
Very Good
Anticipation ran high when we uncrated Falcon Northwest’s Mach V, even though this wasn’t the dual-core box we’d been hoping for (Intel just wasn’t game this early). But the water-cooled Mach V packs Intel’s new 3.73GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, overcloc

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Extremetech
Very Good
A simple pair of tubes leads to the fan and cooling assembly up at the top of the case, right in front of the Silverstone 750W power supply...

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