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Just decided to get a Falcon with my hard-earned cash. Did some checking around and was going to get either a Falcon or Voodoo. My advice is to stay away from this company big-time. The Voodoo's look nice but by the looks of the posts at the forum sight, thats about all they've got. I have been looking at the forum posts for a couple weeks now and they have one serious quality control problem there. Bad hard drives galore, unexplainable restart and shutdown problems, cluster crashes, bad benchmarking, etc.....And these are for thier new or almost new top-of-the-line 3-5 grand computers! Talk about a kick in the teeth. One guy even got his computer delivered and found bugs inside! The community spirit at the boards is fantastic in that they all help each other out with problems, which would be a big bonus, but when you spend 3-5 grand on a computer, there shouldn't be any, am I right? There are posts about a brand new top of the line system not working right for over 5-months! They praise the upgrade and excellent service available.....by the looks of things you need it. Some guy who just got a new system took pictures and everything, an he found out that his power supply fan wasn't running. Another had a new system and his led's on the front werent working. These guys are great at taking bad situations and making them seem meaningless. If I got a new system and the PS fan wasn't working, back it would go. Falcon on the other hand doesnt have a forum but I think the benchmarks and reputation speak for themselves. 3 of my friend have not had a single problem with them in over 5 years. That's testiomonial in itself. They even have the computer available in any color you want for additional cost. I will post later when I get it delivered and running.
 
what are you talking about??? Voodoo Rules!!! zechs that you..LoL..?

My computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
 
have fun spending your hard earned money on an overpriced product, seriously the quality of the contents of the falcon NW box has nothing to do with the company, well most of it anyway. might wanna be a little adventourous and spend a little time reading up and build it yourself, save money and have fun.... but its up to you.
 
Yep! Build your own. Have done it twice myself and I've been satisfied with both. Before building my first one (about a year and a half ago) I knew that a computer consisted of a box which contained "stuff", a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. If I can build a computer that is stable and comparable in benchmarks with others which have the same componenets (not overclocked) then anyone can.
 
Money Mike, shut up! those VOODOO pc's are [-peep-]!! your just jelous cause everybody here builds there own for i'd say 3,000$ less and gets better components, stick your High priced piece of SHEEET up your ass!!

This Community is like a Second Family!!
 
i see rob has a little.. agression he needs to vent... but i do agree that they are way overpriced pieces of shiznit.

"If you wear a turtleneck and a backpack, it's like a weak midget is on your back strangling you"
 
lamo! well this TOOL has been going on and on about his Voo-POO PC, i was just sick of him telling people it's so great when it costs over 2,500 more then just building one.... I can build 2 great PC"S for the price of one of those!

This Community is like a Second Family!!
 
I paid $2,200.00 for it. Considering that the Coolermaster case is 350 bucks...the GeForce 4 Ti4600 is 400 bucks...the Enermax Power supply is 110....the Asus motherboard is 140....the ram is 110......the modem is 50 .....the cpu 200....the sound card 120.....heatsink, cables, fans, etc. plus I get 1-year free airfare back and forth for any problems what-so-ever....Let me see.....I get $1,450 bucks.....give or take a couple bucks, not including all the etc crap.....And no I'm not getting speakers or monitor. So where is this "I can build a better PC for $2,000 less" crap coming from? Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
 
you paid $2200 for just the comp? no monitor or anything? one question. did they at least buy you dinner first? :lol:

I run duals because i multitask between notepad, outlook express and winamp :lol:
 
Is it 2 0r 3 thousand dollars difference? NO You think that just because you build a computer that all others are lame. Some of us have lives. And to answer your question....No I'm not disagreeing with myself Einstein.......just making a point about how much some of you over-inflate the difference between Top of the line rigs and hand built (with all the problems) computers that you covet so much. Falcon got "Rig of the year" at Maximum PC last year. Not one mention about how building it your self would be better. Falcon goes the extra step to tie all the parts together and tweak it to hell and back. If that wasn't the case than maybe Chuck232's computer would have been "Rig of the year"

Enough said
 
Dinner was good.....and we laughed and laughed about all the thousands of posts on forums like this that have people asking for help on computers they built themselves. Oh yea........I got to be on top!
 
i'm sure you weren't laughing as hard as the guy's over at falcon. i'm curious because you haven't listed the whole system, what are the specs for "rig of the year"?

I run duals because i multitask between notepad, outlook express and winamp :lol:
 
I aint Bashing FALCON NORTHWEST system's...im talking about the VOODOO PC's...go to there website..there system starts at 3,500.... notice i said STARTS! AT...

I wasn't even talking about Falcon!

This Community is like a Second Family!!
 
Hey, I'm new to computers too. I used to think companies like Dell, Alienware, and Falcon were top of the lines because they custom build theirs, well Dell doesn't but they have a good forum, but I found out for myself. I tried comparing the companies "Flagship" to parts that I found on pricewatch. I found that I saved at least 1k with the same or better parts. They say they have the newest and best parts when in reality they don't. You can go out and buy more recent parts for less money than the 2 month old stuff they have. I almost kicked myself after I learned this because I was very close to buying one of those comps. Thanks to you guys I didn't, haha.

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If it was 2 hot chicks it was worth every penny, otherwise you got hosed.

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Ignore the Re:**** just saying stuff

Why do people pay all that money for a company to put together a PC for them which contain nothing special that you can't buy on your own? The store at my corner build computers for people who want to get all the good stuff but have no clue how to put it together, it cost 25$ more compared to getting the parts one by one on your own.

Maybe I should start a company called something fancy and get all the refurbished parts to put computers together with some tweaking for thousands of dollars. Looks like there is a great market for it. People can't tell if it's new or refurbished anyway. Just because of a company (who doesn't make any of the hardware they sell, only install them) put their logo on it people pay through their noses.

I have a mid tower with a 300W PS, I cut the holes on it for the fans and now the price is 150$. It's an AndrewT-1300 case. Fans not included, only the holes. :)

<font color=red>Computer upgraded, now need a place to live, and a good divorce lawyer.</font color=red>
 
The store at my corner build computers for people who want to get all the good stuff but have no clue how to put it together, it cost 25$ more compared to getting the parts one by one on your own.
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Thank you for pointing this out. Anyone who is willing to spend a saturday doing research can find out what the best components are, buy them, and then bring them in to their local mom & pop computer store to have them build it for you.

Buying from Dell or Falcon or any of these places is ok for your first computer. After that a person should be able to comfortably open up the case and figure out what stuff is, read a forum, and at the very least buy the components they need and have a friend, family member, or local shop build it for you.

The money saved is a lot. For those that don't have the time they'll just get stuck buying from one of the big OEM's for the big dollars. That's their thing. It's not better though. Unless you're willing to pay a premium on even their prices they'll probably throw some kind of junk in there like a MX card or only 128MB of PC133 memory. Granted, I have to admit that Falcon seems to have pretty good systems. I don't have any hands on experience with them though. Dell will always throw in some junk, and Voodoo's prices are just stupid.

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yeah and that's 25$ Canadian, that's like 47 cents US (soon)! LOL

Also I mean 25$ over the price of the whole computer not each component. :)

<font color=red>Computer upgraded, now need a place to live, and a good divorce lawyer.</font color=red>
 
Even Falcon is damn expensive if you custom make a computer on their site. I just got one to cost $3000 without a monitor when you could easily do it for half the price. They charge a premium on all the good components. The WDJB120's for example can be bought for $183 yet they cost $326 on Falcon. I could go on, but it's probably easier for everyone to look for themselves.

Nothing wrong with buying from an OEM if you have the money and no time, but you can do it a lot cheaper on your own.

<font color=red>God</font color=red> <font color=blue>Bless</font color=blue> <font color=red>America!</font color=red>
 
I paid $2,200.00 for it.
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wow for all that extra money hopefully they lubed up your bung before giving you a healthy reaming. Knowing these cheap companies though, they probably just used a free sample ordered of the net :tongue:

If my response is brief and vague its because the info you provided is too!
 
lol
yep
do it yourself.
learn the components, know EXACTLY what u want down to product id and revision.
order and self assemble.

You're an embarrisment to nature you know that?
 
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