Falcon Northwest Mach V (Core i7-3960X) EDITOR RATING: EXCELLENT0 COMMENTS

[glorybound]

Worth the $7000?

We're entering familiar territory for our enthusiast readers. 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). Frankly, we'd have it no other way. 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. 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. Build quality with bragging rights is the reason we award the latest Mach V our latest Editors' Choice for high-end gaming desktop PCs.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398368,00.asp

[super gnu]

3x gtx 580 ? they obviously had some old stock to shift..

[JeffG2]

Check out Puget Systems. I just bought a smoking new machine from them and was extremely pleased with the whole experience. It was a Intel Core i7 5960X 3.0GHz Eight Core witha Titan Black and came in just over 5K USD.

[glorybound]

Check out Puget Systems. I just bought a smoking new machine from them and was extremely pleased with the whole experience. It was a Intel Core i7 5960X 3.0GHz Eight Core witha Titan Black and came in just over 5K USD.

Nice! Some upgrades on the Deluge XL brings it to around $6000. 12GB video and 32GB RAM.

[Franx]

Way overpriced. Could very likely be built for under 4000$, considering a trio of those 580's goes for around 750$ on Amazon. But these only sport 1.5gb of ram, so pretty flimsy compared to what's availlable today.

[glorybound]

Check out Puget Systems. I just bought a smoking new machine from them and was extremely pleased with the whole experience. It was a Intel Core i7 5960X 3.0GHz Eight Core witha Titan Black and came in just over 5K USD.

seems to be what you got. http://www.amazon.com/ULTIMATE-GAMIN.../dp/B00PP94KRA

[super gnu]

id suggest that the 580 is a typo. 980 is rather more likely. still way overpriced.

[dlparisi]

That article is three years old... Review Date January 05, 2012

Maybe it was worth it then but certainly not anymore.

[glorybound]

I didn't notice that, I thought it was recent.

That article is three years old... Review Date January 05, 2012

Maybe it was worth it then but certainly not anymore.

[artmaknev]

using that amazon link i saw some other suggested systems:

http://www.amazon.com/ENTERPRISE-Del...ZXHY7DKAJ40971

[glorybound]

$47 thousand dollars!