The Falcon and the Bull: A Wide Screen Shootout
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This one will be getting pretty juicy I suspect. Seriously, as these types of reviews go, things could get ugly!
After HP’s recent acquisition of Voodoo PC, it seems fair to compare and contrast a very high-end, luxury gaming PC with a high-end, stock gaming PC from a mainstream PC manufacturer.
The Gateway FX510XT has been previously reviewed by PC Magazine. That review included a fairly wide range of tests. Due to the scope of the review, PC Magazine only included two actual games, Doom 3 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, plus 3DMark06. They also only tested at one wide screen resolution, 2560×1600. The review gave the Gateway system and Editor’s Choice.
Our sister publication hasn’t yet looked at the Quad SLI iteration of the Falcon Northwest Mach V, but the previous version of Falcon Northwest’s ultimate game machine also garnered an Editor’s Choice. The company shipped us their latest iteration, featuring a highly overclocked, liquid-cooled Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor, a BFG physics accelerator card based on Ageia’s PhysX chip, and a pair of BFG 7950 GX2 video cards set up in Quad SLI mode…. Source: ExtremeTech
