Getting into the compartment required removing the front bezel, which is anchored to the case by 12 tiny screws. The button then collapsed into a compartment of the chassis that is completely blocked off from the outside. When we first went to turn the system on, we apparently pressed the button too hard. Instead, we take issue with, of all things, the design of the Mach V's power button. Maingear may have been first to market with that design, but there's no reason why the new Falcon Northwest Mach V shouldn't get equal credit for offering it as well.
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Regardless of who originated the upventing chassis, if it means more reliable overclocking and reduced thermal wear-and-tear on expensive PC components, we're all for its proliferation. In response Falcon provided us with drawings of a Kodiak concept chassis it says dates back to 2002. We asked Falcon Northwest about the history of the system design, which we'd also seen in concept from Voodoo PC a few years after it was acquired by HP. We'd rather have no reservations about a PC in this price range, but on balance the new Mach V ranks among the best desktops available.įalcon Northwest's Kodiak up-venting desktop chassis concept, circa 2002. None of the issues we found seems insurmountable, and otherwise this system is well built, and unquestionably powerful. And despite some clever, if familiar, design elements in the new case, we actually have some minor complaints about the Mach V's new enclosure. We'd like to see more application performance from a system in this price range, although the gaming scores from this PC set records. In addition to the new chip, the $4,818 Mach V also comes with an updated chassis, the first new case we've seen from Falcon Northwest's flagship line in several years.
Now it's time for Falcon Northwest to show off the chip's performance in an even higher-end PC. We've seen how Intel's new Sandy Bridge Core i7 2600K chip performs in a $2,500 desktop from Origin. Falcon Northwest tells us that it is still selling this Mach V configuration, and that you should call directly to discuss motherboard and order timing options if you're interested in a purchase. As the hard drives on this system are not connected to the affected ports, we have no reason to believe that our performance results are compromised by the chipset flaw. Click here for the details of the flaw, which affects certain data connection ports. Since this review posted, Intel announced a flaw in the Sandy Bridge P67 chipset used in this desktop.
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Falcon Northwest has responded to our issues with the Mach V's power button, which you can read in full on CNET's Crave blog.
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