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Falcon Northwest Mach V

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Pros
Superior performance
Blu-ray burner
Cons
Very expensive
Basic case design

Performance: Superior: 99
Features: Very Good: 84
Design: Very Good: 86

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	260
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	268
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	181
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1024x768	145.6
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1680x1050	118.23
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 1920x1200	117
Enemy Territory Quake Wars High 2560x1600	112.73
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1024x768	144.4
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1680x1050	121.23
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 1920x1200	121.2
Enemy Territory Quake Wars Normal 2560x1600	119.2
Firefox 2	148
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	297
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	141
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	213
Overall Graphics Score	Superior
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	156
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1024x768	151.27
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1680x1050	141.82
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 1920x1200	145.56
Unreal Tournament 3 Highest 2560x1600	145.04
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 1024x768	235.83
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 1680x1050	243.36
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium 2560x1600	233.84
Unreal Tournament 3 Medium1920x1200	237.11
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	151
WorldBench 6 Score	163
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	171

What You Should Know about the Mach V

Large Amount of RAM Produces Blazing Performance

Simply put, this computer is likely to offer blazing performance. The large amount of RAM it ships with is more than enough to handle most memory-hungry applications and large files, and as a result the PC won't constantly swap memory to its hard drive.

The more installed memory your PC has, the more applications you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is simple, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

To use more than 4GB of memory on your PC, you need either Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (limited to 128GB) or a 64-bit version of Windows Vista (which can handle 128GB and beyond).

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