via Kotaku

Give a big, warm welcome to the Falcon Northwest Mach V! Cnet reckon, based on tests, that it's the fastest consumer PC on the planet. It's so fast, in fact, that it's the first off-the-shelf PC they (or we) have seen that can run Crysis at 60FPS. On its highest settings. Of course, it had want to run Crysis at 60FPS, since it costs $8000. That's the kind of price bracket where we'd joke that the metallic red paint job costs an extra $500 and...oh, the metallic red paint job really does cost an extra $500.

Falcon Northwest Mach V: Fastest PC Yet Runs Crysis at 60FPS [Gizmodo]

Specs

According to Cnet test labs, the Falcon Northwest Mach V is the fasted PC on the planet, beating the Alienware Area-51 ALX. How fast you ask? How about being the first PC ever to hit 60 frames per second running Crysis on the highest graphics preset? Yes. That fast.

Cnet says that the Falcon Northwest Mach V has the latest and bestest combination of components there is, which is what makes it the fastest thing on chips:

• 3.79GHz Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition.
• An Intel X58 chipset.
• 12GB of 1,066MHz DDR3 SDRAM.
• 2 x 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
• 1TB 7,200RPM Hitachi hard drive.
• 80GB Intel X-25M solid-state drive.

All this comes at a pretty hefty $8,028 price tag, including the Ferrari red paint job, which is a $500 option. Unfortunately, the automotive-class red paint job reportedly helps you get at least three extra frames per second in Crysis. Fortunately, there's a potential DIY fix to save those $500: Apply a few adhesive flames to the chassis, and Bob's your uncle. [Cnet]

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This is where knowing a little about computers is going to save you a lot of money as I'm sure people who build their own PC's can tell you. Heck, the specs seem too bloated to really be worth investing in it. Is spending money on a solid state hard drive or 12 whole gigs of ram really going to be worth it yet? I'd cast my vote as a probably not, unless of course you're into something like video editing and 3-d modeling. 

Now the question will be what kinds of configurations will people find on a place like newegg that can rival this without breaking your budget as badly.

So what do you think? Hot or not? 

The Mach V has been the fastest model on the market more or less since it was introduce. I don't think even Voodoo's best has ever matched up to Falcon-Northwest.

How much were sold? 4?

I take it you have never heard of Falcon-Northwest, then.

I'm pretty sure you can build a $2000 dollar PC from current newegg.com parts that will perform just as well as this PC.

Why in the world does this PC need a solid-state HDD? If you were really concerned with the HDD read speed bottleneck you could get away with a much cheaper 10,000RPM HDD instead. Also 12GB of RAM is overkill, unless you plan on running a slideshow and have 15 IE windows running at the same time as Crysis.

• 3.79GHz Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition.
• An Intel X58 chipset.
• 12GB of 1,066MHz DDR3 SDRAM.
• 2 x 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
• 1TB 7,200RPM Hitachi hard drive.
• 80GB Intel X-25M solid-state drive.

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I really doubt that costs $8,028 - just check the prices of the components and you'll see that something's not right here.

I didn't. I based this solely on redicilous price.

People, the entire point of Falcon-Northwest is opulence. This isn't for smart buyers, this is for people who have ten grand to drop on a PC because they have that much extra income. You could trick out this Mach V to cost twice this much, easily, before getting started on the custom paint jobs.

They are literally the Ferrari of the custom PC market. This price is not that shocking.

what ever happened to spending money on hookers and blow

Ah yes...the good ol days!