![]() Adding drives to the front-panel bays requires only that you unscrew a single place-holder bracket, and not every Mach V owner will even become that involved in upgrading. We also can't see any other reason why you would need to undergo the lengthy process of removing all of those parts. It could be that the metal bracket holding the power button was jarred out of place in shipping to our lab. Putting our difficulties in proper perspective, you may not ever encounter this issue with your own Mach V. Counting everything we had to disconnect, remove, or unscrew from the system, we tallied 17 separate actions required to access and reseat the power button. Because of the illuminated logo on the front panel door, we also had to disconnect the power cable, which was threaded through a part of the chassis. To access the screws, we needed to remove both side panels, as well as the front panel door. Getting into the compartment required removing the front bezel, which is anchored to the case by 12 tiny screws. ![]() The button then collapsed into a compartment of the chassis that is completely blocked off from the outside. When we first went to turn the system on, we apparently pressed the button too hard. Instead, we take issue with, of all things, the design of the Mach V's power button. That system, which we liked well enough, also featured a rotated motherboard design that oriented the airflow upward. If you follow boutique PC vendors, the new Mach V case, called the Icon 2, might look very similar to the Maingear Shift that debuted at the end of 2009. We'd rather have no reservations about a PC in this price range, but on balance the new Mach V ranks among the best desktops available. None of the issues we found seems insurmountable, and otherwise this system is well built, and unquestionably powerful. ![]() And despite some clever, if familiar, design elements in the new case, we actually have some minor complaints about the Mach V's new enclosure. We'd like to see more application performance from a system in this price range, although the gaming scores from this PC set records. In addition to the new chip, the $4,818 Mach V also comes with an updated chassis, the first new case we've seen from Falcon Northwest's flagship line in several years. Now it's time for Falcon Northwest to show off the chip's performance in an even higher-end PC. We've seen how Intel's new Sandy Bridge Core i7 2600K chip performs in a $2,500 desktop from Origin. ![]()
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