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 Flight Simulation. In 1993 Falcon Northwest bought out Bay Engineering, who served CAD application users, and continued to serve those customers for several years.
Falcon Northwest maintains one facility located in Medford, Oregon, and it chooses not to outsource any of its operations. 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 has traditionally competed with the luxury PC gaming niche companies such as Alienware and MAINGEAR.
Falcon Northwest’s system lineup began with the Mach V series and slowly expanded over time. The Mach V 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. 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. For customers looking for something a little more personal, Falcon Northwest provides custom professionally-painted cases.
Falcon PCs have standard features that make them quite different than the average PC. Testing, testing and even more testing - an exhaustive 3-day "burn-in" of every system and try to make the system fail here at the factory so it will not fail on you. Falcon will simulate months of the most tortuous use you could imagine. If every part can't pass our tests flawlessly - it doesn't leave the Falcon factory.
Optimized and accessible BIOS - Falcon will not hide your BIOS or limit buyers access to it. Falcon will tweak every system's BIOS settings individually to the very edge of performance - but not one step beyond (risking instability). That means maximum speed without crashing or graphics problems. And If you want to play with your settings to overclock... Falcon will give you the tools.
System documentation - Falcon custom systems all ship with a binder with your personal settings for your hardware, all of your system's quality checks, benchmarks, the Falcon Northwest manual and all original manuals from each component you've selected should it have one.
Perfect cabling - Well routed internal cabling is the mark of a true enthusiast PC maker. You may never even open your case, but the wiring in every Falcon is carefully routed to provide the perfect balance of airflow, accessibility, and aesthetics.
Truly personal system rescue discs - Falcon will burn a complete backup of your exact system the moment before it leaves the factory. Should your PC ever have problems or you just like to clean out Windows every once in a while, Falcon rescue discs can easily get your PC back to its "factory fresh" state.
Falcon takes systems to the very edge of what the component manufacturers will warrant - we call it "street legal". If you want to push it further with your system, it's your right and you can do so at your own risk. But rest assured Falcon's warranty is in addition to the warranties that our component manufacturers provide - not an attempt to make up for them.
Please note that if you want your system overclocked beyond a component manufacturer's warranty, Falcon will do it for you. And Falcon will still stand behind it with our normal warranty. They know overclocking, and know how far it can be taken safely.
No unnecessary software. No ads - Falcon PCs ship "clean". Falcon will not ship unnecessary software and utilities you don't need. We clean up your temporary directories and you will not find advertising, online banks, or lame internet offers on a Falcon machine.
No "watered down" hardware - Some big PC manufacturers use "watered down" versions of the name-brand components you want. For instance, a special version of a motherboard or graphics card that cuts a few corners to save them a few bucks. You'll pay for these later in missing features, slower performance and lack of upgradeability.
Falcon will give you a real copy of Microsoft Windows - You get the full version of Windows on every Falcon system, complete with an original disc. No "hard drive only" installs that leave you short-changed on drive space and flexibility to re-install. You get the full version of the OS and nothing else.
