My New Falcon Northwest Mach V

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Mach V:

ICON Aluminum Chassis
Silverstone 600Watt Modular Power Supply
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Asus P5N32-SLI Dlx. For SLI & Single GPU
Intel Core 2 EXTREME X6800 2.93GHz
Icon Watercooling Kit (Intel)
Corsair 2GB TwinX DDR2 8500C5 W/EPP
nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB
Western Digital 250GB 16MB Cache SATA 2 + 250GB WD External
Lite-On 16X Dual Layer DVD+-/RW
Sony 3.5in. Floppy-Black
Creative Labs X-Fi Sound card
Windowed Side Panel - Icon Case
Cold Cathode - Blue

I had a big chunk of change to spend, and was sick of building my own lackluster computers. So I bit the bullet and fufilled my dream of owning a Ferrari of the computer world.

Can't wait for the G80 and Vistas release to get some DX10 action in.

Any comments? Contructive criticisms? Please no flaming about buying a brand name custom rig.
 
I don't think I will be making the jump to quad SLI any time soon. I plan on getting a single Dx10 GPU or another gx2 style card when making the jump.

I just wish Dx10 was out now, but money isn't really a problem this time 😀

Nah, my rig only cost me $5,700
 
I had a Falcon back in the Unreal/Quake 2 era. It was a beige beast that whooped all my friends pcs.

I went to building my own rigs for a few years and just got sick of it. So I decided to make the jump again. The day before I ordered it was like Christmas... I was so excited haha
 
Good choice with Falcon. They're actually based in my hometown of Medford, Oregon. Hopefully one day I'll have the cash to spend on one and support the home team!
 
I guess the premium price is worth it for some; having a blanket warranty would sure be convenient. Not to mention the professional cabling and paint jobs. I've seen some of the Falcon branded Silverstone cases; nice, but I prefer Voodoo PC's take on the Lian Li PC1000. BTW, why did you go with an external drive? Is it left over from a previous build? An internal would seem to be cheaper+faster.
 
I got an internal with the system. And most of my docs and music etc are on my external i got kicking around. I picked it up to swap HDDs a couple months ago ... now it's just a back up.
 
Any comments? Contructive criticisms? Please no flaming about buying a brand name custom rig.
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Should be a beauty. Any OC plans? I'm a little surprised you didn't go with a Raptor and/or Seagate Perp HD. The 7950 has many fans, but I would have gone with a 1900XT clocked to XTX. Have fun!
 
By selecting the Icon Water Cooling Falcon states that they automatically OC. Assuming that the reason you buy a water cooling system means you want OC'ed performance.

I really wanted a Raptor... but considering the amount of space I need, I couldn't settle for a 150gb over the 250 I got.
 
By selecting the Icon Water Cooling Falcon states that they automatically OC. Assuming that the reason you buy a water cooling system means you want OC'ed performance.
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Some folks do WC for the quiet. If I ever pop for a CPU like the X6800, for sure I'll OC. I'd expect it to OC quite well on air.

I really wanted a Raptor... but considering the amount of space I need, I couldn't settle for a 150gb over the 250 I got.
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Well, decent performance HDs are dirt cheap, especially in comparison to the price you paid. Having a Raptor (or two in RAID0) for OS plus apps will give a performance boost, then you can do storage on something less expensive per GB.
 
Quad SLI pretty much requires you to buy from a Custom company like Falcon. So far the technology has only been harnesed by them [custom companies] as I have been told.
 
Quad SLI pretty much requires you to buy from a Custom company like Falcon. So far the technology has only been harnesed by them [custom companies] as I have been told.
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Nope, the technology is not harnessed by them, just that Nvidia allow them to build Quad SLI, that's all. But recently, Nvidia release driver for DIY Quad SLI, so it's not exclusive to system builder anymore. Quad SLI sucks, at least for now anyways, Tom's do lots of review on that. If you dont have a 30" monitor from Apple or Dell, it's just a waste of money
 
By selecting the Icon Water Cooling Falcon states that they automatically OC. Assuming that the reason you buy a water cooling system means you want OC'ed performance.
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Some folks do WC for the quiet. If I ever pop for a CPU like the X6800, for sure I'll OC. I'd expect it to OC quite well on air.

I really wanted a Raptor... but considering the amount of space I need, I couldn't settle for a 150gb over the 250 I got.
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Well, decent performance HDs are dirt cheap, especially in comparison to the price you paid. Having a Raptor (or two in RAID0) for OS plus apps will give a performance boost, then you can do storage on something less expensive per GB.

Very true, have like two 150GB Raptor in RAID0 and one 750GB for storage (or more if you want to, because you have the cash)
 
I'm going to be arranging Falcon to install my Dx10 card whenever I end up getting it (when it's released along with a new mobo possibly) so maybe then I will get a Raptor 150 or 2 of them. Who knows. Until then this system is a million times better than my current.

Right now I'm running a Amd 2200 with 1gb ddr ram 250gb+80gb nVidia 5900 :S
 
Mach V:

ICON Aluminum Chassis
Silverstone 600Watt Modular Power Supply
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Asus P5N32-SLI Dlx. For SLI & Single GPU
Intel Core 2 EXTREME X6800 2.93GHz
Icon Watercooling Kit (Intel)
Corsair 2GB TwinX DDR2 8500C5 W/EPP
nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB
Western Digital 250GB 16MB Cache SATA 2 + 250GB WD External
Lite-On 16X Dual Layer DVD+-/RW
Sony 3.5in. Floppy-Black
Creative Labs X-Fi Sound card
Windowed Side Panel - Icon Case
Cold Cathode - Blue

I had a big chunk of change to spend, and was sick of building my own lackluster computers. So I bit the bullet and fufilled my dream of owning a Ferrari of the computer world.

Can't wait for the G80 and Vistas release to get some DX10 action in.

Any comments? Contructive criticisms? Please no flaming about buying a brand name custom rig.
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I too bought a Falcon Nothwest Mach V system in the past:

Hope you have better luck with them than I did when I bought mine a few years ago. It came in and booted up with problems and then after going over some stuff with their tech support (very good I might add) the thing only booted up at half speed I had to send it back to have it fixed.

Turns out they ended up building me a brand new rig (nice of them) (but they never told me what they were doing and they left me hanging with no knowlege over a long holiday weekend) which I had to wait another week+ for to get in and that system had been good but I've never been able to get the benchmarks that they say they got out of it and I've had overheating problems with it ever since I've owned it.

My overall experience with them is that I felt that I spent way too much money on a system that was no where near worth it!

I hope you have a better experience with them than I did but for that money You can build one youself and go somewhere and have some fun to.
 
Nice system! Big chunk of change there. I would've selected Overdrive PC if I was going to spend $5,700. Could've got Quad-SLi with the X6800 at 3.76Ghz on air. I'm just pointing out specifics: Great system and have fun with it!

~Ibrahim~
 
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions!

@ Alazeer

With my past system from Falcon I had no trouble at all. So I have a good feeling about this one.
 
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