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Pricing and configuration

Although the Falcon’s frame is small, make sure you choose the Tiki’s configuration. But, dear readers, Falcon and all other OEMs are hit by tariffs, which means they pass it on to you. At the time of writing, the price has risen by 5%. Not much looks like it’s. But if you’ve ever built your own PC, you know that purchasing components can quickly become an expensive thing.

So that means the base model of Tiki with Intel Core Ultra 7 265 processor costs $5,407. It also features an Intel Laminar RH1 cooler, a pair of 16GB Kingston Fury Beast RGB DDR4 6,000MHz RAM, Asus Rog Strix Z890-E gaming WiFi motherboard, Kingston Fury Renegade Renegade 2TB PCIE M.2 SSD, NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 508080 GPSTONE, and MAISSS SIRVEN STSIS 16G. SFX-L Platinum 1,000W PSU.

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU base model is a bit cheaper and costs $5,354. In addition to processor swap, you can also get the Noctua NH-L9A-AM5 Chromax Black Air Cooler. And my actual review build, priced at $5,740, has a 2.5 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 285 CPU, a pair of 32GB Kingston Fury Beast RGB DDR4 6,000MHz RAM and the crucial T705A T705A 2TB PCIE M.2 PCIE M.2 Gen 5.0 5.0 SSD. My configuration also has RGB-Backlit Falcon Emblem as well as three-sided custom UV printing. Each build uses Microsoft Windows 11 Pro as the operating system and has 3 years of parts and labor warranty.

Design/Build Quality

I like a good SFF (small size) system, and the Falcon Northwest is the best. The compact chassis is made of black anodized aluminum with a thick bottom that ensures that the system does not slide easily or easily. As shown in the picture, I don’t have a regular design. Falcon attracted me with one of its custom UV prints, with the front panel or single side panel priced at $149, or the price for all three aspects of $399. The company prides itself on the 600 dpi “having the highest resolution UV printer”. Simply send your image ideas and the company can print on your system – just make sure it is a high resolution image for the best results.

My tiki owns one of the company’s pre-made prints. Printing is available in several colors, mimicking a huge circuit board. The green paint that makes up the circuit is semi-glossy with a cool relief appearance. Of course, both parties have the company’s nominal falcon mascot, which looks sinister and badass. As I mentioned in the configuration section, the cutout logo of the mascot on the front panel of the PC is RGB backlight.

The top panel is almost all geometric exhaust cutouts. But there is also a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port and two USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 ports. You also have power and fan buttons. Pick up a Gander on the back of the mini tower and you’ll have the usual party like a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports, a USB-C 3.2 port, two USB-A 2.0 ports, two USB-A 3.0 ports, and a pair of USB-A 3.2 ports. There is also an HDMI 2.1 port, an Ethernet jack, a connector for Wi-Fi antennas, and an AC input jack for thick power cords.

It’s easy to open the box. You just unscrew the two large screws that hold the right panel in place and slide it to reveal a large amount of river water components. GPUs take up a top quarter of the space, the rest to the CPU, motherboard and glowing RGB RAM. You’re not wasting an inch of space if you want, and surprisingly, you have enough slots to increase the RAM to 96GB.

The Tiki’s slim frame measures 4 x 13.6 x 13 inches and is the answer to prayers for many apartment residents, or anyone who doesn’t have a lot of space. It can easily slide into a narrow position and remains the center of your gaming experience. Just make sure to lift with your knees, as the box starts at 18 pounds from the base. The weight can vary greatly depending on which components are included in the build.

Games/Graphics

In many ways, Tiki has a lot in common with boxing legend Tommy “The Hit Man” Hearns. Both of them have smaller frames, but punched. Armed with the NVIDIA RTX 5080 Founder GPU, Tiki can’t do much. Despite its slender frame, it should not be trivial. While I really want to spend time playing in the new Hades 2 update, I am still an adult and have made more tax fares. Then I went to Hades 2 for time.

I started with another game of death again and again: Black Myth Wukong. For these benchmarks, I keep the game running at its highest settings, movies and adjusted resolutions and effects. So when I run the game at 1080p, I see an average frame rate of 76 frames per second. Turn on DLSS to increase the frame rate to 116 fps while reducing ray tracing to 89 fps in the mixture. Compared to the CyberPowerPC gamer Supreme, which I recently reviewed, it also has an RTX 5080, just an MSI VENTUS 3X OC card. In the same test, I saw results for 83, 127 and 92 fps respectively.

Falcon continues to perform well in 4K, with 69 fps without DLSS, 108 fps and 84 fps with that feature, and 84 fps with ray tracing enabled. These are great numbers but not a good match with gamer Supreme, which gives me 74 fps sans dlss 118 with 95 fps and 95 fps.

Next, I ran the Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark on the Super Settings, which is well-known for the taxation. However, it is handled elegantly, powerful. For our 1080p results, I get an average of 189 fps with no effect, 371 fps with DLSS absurdity, 361 fps with ray tracing. This is a close-range match with gamers supreme, as it hits only 187 fps, no effect, 211 fps with DLSS and 202 fps, and adds ray tracing.

Falcon Tiki gets 143 fps at 4K, 270 fps in non-effect runs, and 270 fps for DLSS and 267 fps on top. Meanwhile, the supreme production of gamers is 114, 143 and 139 fps, respectively.

Finally, I ran the Hitman 3 Dartmoor benchmark at a high of 1080p. No sauce, Tiki dehydrated 122 fps, DLSS enabled, rose to 327 fps, got only one frame, and added ray tracing. Gamer supreme benchmark chew, starting with 190 sans effects, is released in 427 fps with DLSS and 420 fps with ray tracing.

Tiki’s crank is up to 4K, producing 159, 190, and 191 fps to 121, 225, and 224 fps for CyberPowerPC.

Performance

There is a time in every gamer’s life where they have to put down the controller and use that mouse in exchange for something other than the enemy. When that time comes, know that Tiki has covered its 2.5 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 285 processor and its 64GB of RAM. The Svelte system seemed to cause ironic snot when I released my 70 Google Chrome tabs with G-Suite apps, social media pages, news sites and videos. When I start editing the video load, it even stays cool. Did the fans ring loudly? Of course, but not a lot, it’s a distraction.

So let’s get into some synthetic benchmarks where Tiki’s Intel CPU does it with CyberPowerPC’s AMD Ryzen 9800x3d processor. This is a close-range battle tested by PCMark 10, but the gamer’s supreme victory is 9,981 to 9,819. The battle continued in the Geekbench 6 test, with the Cyber ​​Power PC winning the championship in 3,142 to 3,045 single-core rounds. However, Tiki made a comeback in multi-core 21,753 to 17,148. Tiki has achieved a decisive victory in both aspects of Cinebench 2024 Benchmark.

When it comes to transcoding videos, Tiki is your Huckleberry, which can transcoding 4K videos to 1080p in just 2 minutes and 31 seconds. Gamers are supreme at 3:07. The Falcon is also faster in the CPU and GPU sections tested by Blender, with time of 1:19 and 1:29 (1:45 and 1:42) compared to competition.

judgment

Thin has been in Falcon in Northwest for some time, and there is good reason. Without sacrificing power, the company has been trying to gracefully incorporate some of the most powerful components into seemingly impossible spaces. While you might be tempted to put your SFF PC in a tight space, I beg you to treat it better than that. How good I have to look at Gizmodo employees, you will do your own and micro loss.

My configuration exceeded expectations and reminded me that nothing has to be huge to get good. I just want the pricing to be as slim as the size of the tiki. Tiki is already expensive, but adding tariffs at the top means that only the deepest gamers can enjoy the charm of this slim Fatale. But if you can afford it, the Svelte Falcon Northwest Tiki is a great prefabricated system just waiting to turn your head and kick your ass.