Thursday, April 23, 2009

Falcon Northwest FragBox 2 (Core i7)

Falcon Northwest's new FragBox 2 (Core i7) ($8,895 direct) ramps up the insanity on both pricing and gaming performance. When the folks at Falcon NW asked me how I wanted them to equip its latest FragBox, I told them to wow me. Wow me they did, with a top-of-the-line Core i7 quad-core processor, two Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics cards, and an insane 1 terabyte of solid-state storage distributed among four solid-state drives (SSDs). Now you might think it's crazy to talk about an $8,900 PC in today's economy when perfectly usable gaming systems start at around $1,100, but you have to remember that Rolls-Royce, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Tiffany & Co. were able to sell their luxury items successfully during the Great Depression. Yes, you can configure a Core i7-powered FragBox 2 with decent gaming performance for about $2,000, but I wanted a system with ultimate bragability. Read on to see how well this FragBox fills the bill.

Source : http://www.pcmag.com

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