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I'm van Ackerman and we are here taking a look at a falcon northwest frag box this is a system we've seen before in previous iterations this is what I call a new 2013 version of it and what's new about it is it's one of the first systems that we got to see with Intel's new fourth generation Core iSeries processors otherwise known by the codename Haswell and along with that we actually also got one of Nvidia's brand new g4 780 graphics cards so we got all the new parts in a box that's a slightly updated version of the same kind of small form-factor gaming frag box that Falcon Northwest and other companies have been selling for years the design of this particular version was slightly updated but it's still something you don't even really see that often now there everybody has laptops or all-in-ones even for gaming but it is fun to occasionally go back and get one of these big custom-made gaming boxes now one of the main advantages of having these new Haswell chips is really long battery life in laptops and tablets and other portable devices you don't get that here and frankly because this is a traditional gaming desktop Falkon really kind of ignores a lot of the things that are sort of trendy in in computers this year like touch screens and a thunderbolt and of course that longer battery life that you do get with the Haswell so it's much more of a traditional experience here our particular build with the fourth generation Core i7 quad core processor the NVIDIA GeForce 780 graphics card and get this to 960 gigs solid-state hard drives all adds up to be very expensive I think about $3,400 obviously those solid-state hard drives really add a lot to the cost there you can actually start the frag box at about 1600 but for that very base configuration you're really better off you spending your money somewhere else and just getting you know a Core i5 and a geforce 650 you can pretty much get that anywhere if you're going to invest in a Frank but you really want to go for those high-end upgrades because you get not only really high-end parts you also get that expert and construction and the burnin and the testing and the overclocking and I think even more importantly in a gaming system that ability to get these guys on the phone for tech support should you need that so it's gonna be a big investment but if you really want you know a super high-end gaming system and you don't really care about portability to my channel it's got a handle on it but it's still not particularly portable even though they call it a small form-factor the Falcon Northwest franc box is probably one of the coolest ways to get all the way to gaming parts in one box that at least is not the size of a refrigerator I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Falcon Northwest frag box