Falcon Northwest Upgrades the Mach V With AM2
Inside The Case, Continued
As we mentioned before, the cabling inside a Falcon Northwest system is the way any system, entry level or bleeding edge, should be done. It shows a level of professionalism that is mostly dead in the world of PC builders, retained only by the high end system makers. When the cables are out of the way, airflow is maximized, and it also looks good when you want to show off your case to your friends. They look inside and are as impressed with the guts of the beast as they are about the amazing craftsmanship seen on the outside.
This system came equipped with two BFG 7900GTX OCE graphics cards, at factory-set speeds of 670 MHz for the core and 820 MHz (or 1640 MHz DDR) for the memory, which is 20/10 MHz faster than the Nvidia specification.
Two other cards fill out the Mach V we received : a Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi audio card, and a BFG PhysiX card. The new Asus motherboard now allows gamers to have their cake and eat it too. Before, you could only fit one PCI card into the system as the dual slot graphics cards in SLI limited expansion options. Gamers purchasing systems like this are assured that they will be ready when physics intensive games start hitting the market and while they wait, they get the best sound for their games or leisure.
Specifications
System Hardware | |
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Processor | AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 @ 3.1 GHz |
Platform | Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Rev 1.1 BIOS 0203 |
RAM | Corsair CM2X1024-64002x 1024 MB @ 222.0 MHz (444.0 MHz DDR) CL5-5-5-18 |
Hard Drive | 2x Western Digital Raptor, WD1500ADF 150 GB, 10,000 RPM16 MB cache, SATA150, RAID0 |
Networking | On-Board nForce Gigabit Ethernet |
Audio | Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi |
CPU Heatsink | Sanyo Denki San Ace MC Liquid |
Graphics Cards | 2x (SLI) BFG GeForce 7900 GTX 512 MB GDDR3 670 MHz Core 820 MHz (1640 MHz DDR) Memory |
Power Supply | Falcon Custom Silverstone Modular 650W |
System Software & Drivers | |
OS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 2 (v 2.0) |
DirectX Version | 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
Platform Driver | Asus - nForce 9.15 |
Graphics Driver | NVIDIA - Forceware 84.43 |
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