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Falcon Northwest is a personal computer manufacturing company located in Medford, Oregon, USA which was founded in 1992 by its current President Kelt Reeves. The company began its existence focusing on high-end systems for CAD applications. Falcon Northwest is considered a pioneer in the field as they were the first PC company to specialize solely in high-end hardware.[citation needed] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 210 × 61 pixelsFull resolution (210 × 61 pixel, file size: 2 KB, MIME type: image/png) This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ...
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Medford is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. ...
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Medford is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
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An ad from 1993 and an ad featuring Unreal Falcon Northwest maintains one facility located in Medford, Oregon. Falcon Northwest's operations are mostly restricted to online and telephone orders, as the company has not signed any distribution deals with any major retailers. Falcon Northwest is renown amongst gamers for its custom professionally-painted cases, often purchased by companies for promotional purposes.[citation needed] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 539 pixelsFull resolution (1282 × 864 pixel, file size: 339 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Falcon Northwest ads. ...
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Medford is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. ...
Falcon's lineup began with the Mach series and slowly expanded over time. The Mach models were built with components that Falcon Northwest believed to offer the highest performance in PC games. In 2000, the company added the Talon line, at a lower price than the Mach V line.[1] Later, the company brought out the Fragbook line of laptops. Falcon Northwest also offers a small form factor (SFF) PC called the FragBox, a miniature system intended for LAN parties. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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Falcon Northwest's magazine advertisements over the years have usually consisted of game art and its characters surrounding one of their systems. Their ads have included games such as Half-Life, Unreal, Alien vs. Predator, and MechWarrior, among many others. Their earliest ads played off the company's Falcon name and related it with the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter plane, perhaps relating to the Falcon series of simulations. Many of the company's ads are available for viewing on their web site. Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ...
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The company has occasionally had customized hardware made specifically for its machines. One example was the Falcon Northwest Special Edition Maxi Gamer Xentor 32, an upgraded NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra 3D accelerator card. It wasn't simply overclocked, however. The card used special low-latency RAM and hand-picked accelerator chips.[2] The RIVA TNT2 was a 3D graphics chip manufactured by NVIDIA starting in early 1999. ...
An advantage to boutique computer systems, such as those built by Falcon, is their use of brand-name full-featured components. Companies like Dell and Gateway, who build machines that target lower-price market segments, typically use generic or "OEM"-edition parts. An example of custom OEM hardware is the OEM Sound Blaster Live! built for Dell which was sold as a full Live! but had no hardware acceleration, unlike the retail Live!. Among other parts are generic no-name software-based modems and lower-specification video cards, such as NVIDIA's RIVA TNT2 M64 which was popular for several years with large computer OEMs but notably sub-par for 3D gaming of the time. These low-cost parts may be appropriate for the budget segment, but still can be controversial for some buyers. Sound Blaster Live! is a PCI sound card from Creative Technology. ...
Competitors Falcon Northwest has traditionally competed with PC gaming niche companies such as Alienware, Vigor Gaming, and VoodooPC. Alienware is an American computer hardware company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell Computer Corporation. ...
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Controversy In 2005, Falcon Northwest's President, Kelt Reeves, had a heated exchange with HardOCP, an online magazine geared towards the PC hardware enthusiast and PC gaming communities.[3] HardOCP received a system from Falcon that performed less than optimally, with noted instability, and reported these findings to their reader base. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 738 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 832 pixel, file size: 252 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Falcon Northwest magazine ad featuring Half Life. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 738 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 832 pixel, file size: 252 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Falcon Northwest magazine ad featuring Half Life. ...
Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ...
[H]ardOCP Website [H]ard|OCP (Hardware Overclockers Comparison Page) is an online magazine that offers news, reviews, and editorials that relate to computer hardware, software, modding, overclocking and cooling, run by Kyle Bennett. ...
In the exchange that followed, Mr. Reeves disputed HardOCP's findings. He cited that HardOCP had come forward and publicized incorrect claims with questionable objectivity with regards to which piece of hardware was the true cause of the instability.[4] Reeves stated that both he and HardOCP had initially assumed that the problem lay with the motherboard but upon further analysis discovered that the video card was at fault.[4] Falcon Northwest's quality assurance testing included 14 hours of looping the 3D graphics benchmark 3DMark 2005 in an 85°F (29°C) room. Upon receipt of the returned system, it could no longer complete that test without crashing.[4] Falcon Northwest offered to repair the system and send it back to HardOCP for testing, but the magazine refused this solution, stating that it could interfere with the anonymous testing process.[5][6] 3DMark is a computer benchmark by Futuremark (formerly MadOnion) to determine the DirectX performance of graphics cards. ...
See also The following is an incomplete list of worldwide computer system manufacturers. ...
References - ^ McClellan, Keith. Talon/Falcon Northwest Prelim, Tweak3D, January 28, 2000.
- ^ Freeman, Vince. Falcon Northwest Special Edition Xentor Review, Sharky Extreme, November 12, 1999.
- ^ HardOCP. HardOCP Complaint, HardOCP Exchange with Reeves.
- ^ a b c Reviewing the Review: The HardOCP FragBox Evaluation (Kelt Reeve's response) (11/05/05), Falcon Fan Page
- ^ HardOCP Forum Discussion. Customer Annoyances with Falcon, HardOCP Forums.
- ^ [HardOCP Trying to be too Hard?], Beyond3D Forums.
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