![]() ![]() Externally, there are plenty of ports: five USB 2.0, eight of the faster USB 3.0, and two eSATA. There's a bit of room in the chassis for hard drive or optical drive expansion, but with this system's specs, you won't need to add anything for a long time. A moderately beefy uninterruptable power supply might be a good accompaniment, just in case you overload the circuit.īecause the DIMM and PCI Express slots are filled, there isn't much extra expansion room here, but about the only people likely to be disappointed by this are über-users who prefer discrete sound cards for their surround gaming. Because of how much power this PSU can pack, you may want to think twice about running other high-wattage electrical appliances (like space heaters or hair dryers) on the same electrical circuit as the Falcon. To put this into perspective, mainstream tower desktops get by with 260 to 400 watts. Powering it all is a 1,200-watt power supply (PSU). The chassis is full of tech: the cooler for the Intel Core i7-3960X, the three Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 cards, 32GB of system memory (eight 4GB sticks), two SSDs, a 2TB data storage hard drive, a Blu-ray player/DVD burner combo drive, and an Asus P9X79 motherboard. The front panel is hidden behind a door with the iconic Falcon NW logo cut into the metal. In this imposing black tower the video cards are mounted vertically to help disperse heat the cards' fans vent out the top of the system. The Mach V (Core i7-3960X) is in Falcon NW's signature Mach V chassis, like the previous Falcon Northwest Mach V (Core i7-2600K) ($4,599 direct, 4 stars). ![]() Build quality with bragging rights is the reason we award the latest Mach V our latest Editors' Choice for high-end gaming desktop PCs. Any overclocker can push Intel's latest Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition to lofty (and unstable) clock speeds with a few clicks of a mouse in the UEFI (aka BIOS), but the people at Falcon are masters of smart overclocking that will keep the system from crashing like a drunken panda in a go-kart. The funny thing is that our contact at Falcon NW told us that though the system flirts with the mythical 5GHz overclock, it is actually dialed back (more than a little) for reliability's sake. ![]() The latest Intel six-core CPU is overclocked and paired with an obscene number of video cards to give us the Falcon Northwest Mach V (Core i7-3960X) ($6,899 direct). We're entering familiar territory for our enthusiast readers. Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security Software. ![]()
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