Measuring machiavellianism with
MACH V: A psychometric investigation.
Just look at the Falcon Northwest
Mach V or Digital Storm Velox, both of these PCs are towering monuments to PC gaming.
Models in this collection include the Falcon Northwest
Mach V, the Digital Storm Aventum II, Maingear SHIFT, and Origin Genesis.
Though that's a lot, the potential of the system is impressive, and its priced far less than an equivalent
Mach V, the company's full tower system.
A few, like Falcon Northwest's
Mach V, come with a standard three - year warranty on parts and labor.
A Talon can't accommodate gobs of hard drives like
a Mach V or an Origin Genesis, but it does have room for up to seven if you use adapters to convert the 5.25 inch optical bays.
A similarly equipped Origin Millennium rings up to about $ 6,050, while a similar Falcon Northwest
Mach V can be had for $ 6,150.
Origin's Millennium is around $ 4,300 when similarly configured, and Falcon Northwest's
Mach V is around $ 4,650.
Falcon's
Mach V doesn't offer case windows, so it lacks the look - at - me presence of the Digital Storm.
At idle it drew a typical amount of power for a computer this quick, around 110 watts, which is just under what we rated for Falcon's macro-tower cousin,
the Mach V.
The Mach V, Falcon's flagship, has long been one of the best choices for gamers in need of absurd performance.
The conventional design also makes
the Mach V easy to upgrade.
Falcon Northwest's
Mach V might have the potential for better performance, and the Talon may be a better value.
Yes, it's much smaller than
a Mach V or even a FragBox, but it's still essentially a box shape that can be painted in a variety of colors.
The Mach V is at least a gaming powerhouse, and at most a tribute to the kind of computing excess only true geeks can understand.
Even the base
Mach V P67 system has a liquid processor cooler and a GeForce GTX 570 graphics card.
The Mach V's exterior is a clean design that doesn't even offer a case window.
In the realm of flagship gaming desktops,
Mach V is a name that means something.
You can grab
yourself a Mach V for just a hair over $ 3,000 if you choose a AMD or Intel P67 platform.
In addition, the previously tested Origin Genesis did beat out
the Mach V in 3DMark 11 (thanks to an extra GTX 580) while offering a similar as - tested price.
The Mach V has only one case option, the massive black ICON2.
Clearly,
the Mach V could double as a workstation if needed.
The Shift's natural competitors include the Origin Genesis and the Falcon Northwest
Mach V. We've recently tested those desktops and found them to be impressively quick, but the configuration of the Shift that we received is in another league.
Its overall score of 6,688 is over 600 points better than the Falcon Northwest
Mach V we tested late last year.
Falcon Northwest's
Mach V is the second system we've reviewed with Intel's Core i7 - 6950X, the company's latest 10 - core behemoth.
The exact
Mach V we reviewed will set you back a shocking $ 8,484.
While overclocking is technically an option on
the Mach V, it's free to add, so there's little reason to not tick that box.
Unlike Origin's Millennium, which feels a bit fragile,
the Mach V is rock solid.
The Falcon Northwest
Mach V represents the cutting edge of what's possible with today's gaming hardware.
The Mach V's load result also beats the Cybertron PC Thallium, Maingear X-Cube, and iBuyPower Revolt 2.
That shouldn't take away from
the Mach V's incredible speed.
All Mach V systems come with a 3 - year warranty at no extra charge, an offer that few competitors are willing to match.
Falcon Northwest's
Mach V is the grizzled veteran in today's line - up of boutique, high - end custom PCs.
Falcon Northwest has used
the Mach V's enclosure for years.
Falcon's
Mach V is also a bit quicker, a bit more attractive and generates significantly less noise.
Most tower desktops make more noise though a few, like the AVADirect Z97 Quiet Gaming and the Falcon
Mach V, are quieter.
As we tested it,
the Mach V is among the most expensive desktops available.
This makes
the Mach V versatile.
A Falcon Northwest
Mach V that has similar specs comes in around $ 5,900; neither system is much more expensive than the AVADirect.
You may think
the Mach V a poor value.
The Falcon Northwest
Mach V we received is very near the most extravagant example of the breed.
That's pretty close to the Origin Millennium from late 2014, and the Falcon Northwest
Mach V, though those machines boasted a third video card.
4K is more of a challenge, and gives justification for
the Mach V's incredible hardware.
Thresh, one of the world's first professional gamers, won a $ 10,000 Falcon Northwest
Mach V at a Doom tournament — in 1997.
Though
the Mach V name is old, Falcon Northwest is always quick to update it when new hardware comes around.
Those are very playable numbers, and pretty close to what we saw out of the Falcon Northwest
Mach V when we tested Shadow of Mordor in 4K on that machine.
Up front,
the Mach V has a case door, which hides the optical drive.
And like the Aventum 3,
the Mach V is overclocked to 4.3 GHz, an increase of 1.3 GHz over the processor's base clock speed of 3 GHz.
Computers that break performance records are often loud, but not
the Mach V.