Falcon Northwest's Mach V gaming desktop is a firecracker inside a beautiful aluminum chassis. The Mach V sports a spanking-new (Nehalem-based) Intel Core i7 965 Extreme processor that's been over clocked from 3.2 GHz to 3.8 GHz using only air cooling. Added to this is more RAM than we've ever seen in a desktop machine--a whopping 12GB of DDR3-1066 memory--along with an Intel 80GB solid state drive for booting and a 1-terabyte, 7200-rpm Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive for storage. Hardcore Computer's Reactor and Xi's MTower HAF-SLI. The Xi pushes the limit for over clocking by cranking an older 3.33-GHz Core 2 Duo E8600 to an eyeball-popping 4.5 GHz, while the Reactor completely submerges its components in nonconductive oil. Read the rest of this article »