![]() ![]() If you want, you can also sign up for my diabolical newsletter on Substack and subscribe to my YouTube channel. You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook and support my work on Patreon. Falcon Northwest is one of our favorite boutique manufacturers, and with the high-quality system it put out this year in the form of the 2019 Talon (starts at 2,432 5,931 as tested), its easy. And it just looks good sitting there next to my ASUS Ultra-Wide monitor. It ran flawlessly for every application and remained cool and quiet for the duration. I used this unit for two months, playing games, rendering videos and doing day-to-day computing in order to get a full sense of how the machine performs over time. If you want a PC that’s stylish but not flashy, that has a small footprint but leaves a big impression, you can’t beat the Falcon Northwest Tiki.Ĭonfigure yours at Falcon Northwest’s homepage, where you can choose from CPU and GPU options, custom exterior UV prints and much more.Ī loaner unit was provided for the purposes of this review. I have to agree with my colleague Jason Evangelho’s review of the Tiki from way back in 2013: This is the perfect PC. If you’re gaming on a Falcon Northwest machine, you have the disposable income to pay for the best of the best without compromising. Falcon Northwest is a United States based company it was founded in the year 1992 when the founding team first began building computer systems for gaming. A quality boutique, luxury gaming PC is expensive, but you pay for what you get. My test unit, fit with the newer Intel i9-12900 and air-cooling will set you back around $5,300. You also pay a premium, with Tikis starting in the $3,000 - $4,000 range but easily topping off thousands higher depending on which options you select. ![]() So yes, you trade upgradability for a smaller form factor. 2TB of super-fast M.2 SSD storage is great, but it’s easy to fill that up with games and other files. There’s room inside to add two more SSD drives so you can pack in a lot more storage. Typically with these systems, most builders. There are only two memory slots, so if I wanted to upgrade RAM I’d need to replace the two 16GB units I have with two 32GB units, which is obviously costlier (though Falcon Northwest is now offering 32GB x2 configurations so you can start with 64GB). The latest from Falcon Northwest is its newly-minted Talon system, and its all about that Alder Lake platform. Such are the limitations of the form factor. While it’s nice to have such a compact gaming PC sitting on my desk not taking up too much space, it does mean that upgrades-while not impossible-are going to be far more limited than in an ATX tower with ample room to work. There always are-especially when you’re making a size tradeoff.
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