When the day inevitably comes that I hang up my PC toolkit for good, I’m buying a Falcon Northwest FragBox. That’s high praise coming from a lifelong PC builder. But Falcon Northwest absolutely nails every aspect of the Core i7-14700K FragBox I was sent to review, both large and small. This diminutive desktop PC features a fully custom chassis—and even custom fans—along with impeccable attention to detail to deliver a delightfully portable, ferociously powerful, and damned quiet PC that’s easy to lug around, and it absolutely chews through everything that you throw at it.
It doesn’t stop there. The FragBox is fully customizable, and Falcon Northwest performs intensive burn-in testing on every system it ships. The preinstalled Windows 11 image is wonderfully clean, with none of the bloatware and crap infesting PCs from big box retailers. And Falcon Northwest’s extensive support and warranty is a delicious cherry on top on the off chance that something hiccups in your build.
I’m in love. If you can afford to splurge on a Falcon Northwest FragBox, you will be too. There’s a reason 100 FragBoxes powered Epic’s recent Fortnite Championship in Denmark and the UnrealFest UE5 classrooms, and why Falcon Northwest is the choice of studios and superstars alike.
Let’s dig in.
FALCON NORTHWEST’S STORIED HISTORY
Before we dig into the specifics of the FragBox, it’s worth spending a moment catching you up on Falcon Northwest’s background as a business.
Falcon Northwest, located in Oregon, literally introduced the first prebuilt gaming PC when it rolled out the legendary Mach V in 1993, a year after its inception. Building high-performance systems with a keen attention to detail has been baked into this company’s DNA from the get-go.
Its custom-made computers aren’t built on an assembly line. “It’s just the way we’ve always done it: one technician building one system specifically for one client,” proudly declares. “It’s a decidedly labor-intensive and time-consuming way to
