http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/ Engadget Comments for Falcon Northwest's portable FragBox 8500 gaming rig gets reviewed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
It looks like a floppy/card reader combo.]]>Apr 27th 2008 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/"being able to play crysis" as a litmus test as to how powerful a computer is.

The simple fact is that Crysis won't run at good frame rates - or in high detail on most off the shelf PC's - so, many people would perfer to buy a computer that reviewers have claimed is CRYSIS CERTIFIED. The thought is, if the machine can run Crysis, it can run everything else.

I bought a HP Quad Core with 4GB Ram and a Geforce with the sole intention of getting Crysis up and running. On the side, I'm a Falcon 5.0 nut.]]>Apr 27th 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 28th 2008 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/olpc-xo-yes-it-plays-doom/]]>Apr 27th 2008 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
no, actually it was when someone ported doom to ipod linux. ]]>Apr 27th 2008 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/mitsumi 7-in-1 card reader with floppy (FA404M)]]>Apr 26th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
-This message was brought to you by the Thats What She Said awareness campaign of America. ]]>Apr 26th 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/and now i know]]>Apr 26th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Thanks man!
Knowledge is Power!]]>Apr 26th 2008 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
@ignkb and ace b: awesome. Well done.

@yevon: moo2 had a 'that's what she said' crack in one of the first few comments that was so tasteless it left a bad taste in my mouth. it didnt even make sense! I assume you had meant to direct your comment at moo2.]]>Apr 27th 2008 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
~2k for that horrible looking case.

Rather go with the new Sugo cases or maybe possibly the Microfly cases. At least they dont have the fracking skulls and logos on top of it.]]>Apr 26th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 27th 2008 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
treated with respect? that's what SHE said!]]>Apr 26th 2008 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
Dangly parts.]]>Apr 27th 2008 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/




...thats what she said....




sigh.


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a gaming laptop ]]>Apr 26th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
Did you read the entry?]]>Apr 27th 2008 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
(For all you younglings out there, in the day you would have to put in the first 5" Floppy disk to play some of your games.)

I remember:
The first pcs that came out with a CD Rom mulit media disk that would play mpeg1.

The first Pentium 60, with the floating point error.

When Dell and Apple both sold at Best Buy (The first time)

Whene you would have to pour printer toner in to a hopper on the top of your printer from a squeez bottle.

The first "Laptop" computer, which was the size of a small suitecase.

When 500megs of ram was 800.00 (if i remember it correctly.

I could go on for ever, them was the good old dayz.

]]>Apr 28th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/Apr 26th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.falcon-nw.com/config/fragbox_preconfigured.asp
case - maybe $90
psu - $67
mobo - $130
proc - $290
cooler - included
memory - ~$75
video - $200
HD: $130
optical - $24
floppy drive - $20
os - $110
grand total of about 1136, so your estimate was right on. The price difference is the main reason why I don't buy desktops preassembled.]]>Apr 26th 2008 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/
Plus I just got a 8800GT 1GB from newegg for 190. You really will need to get a better PSU though, so about 97 for that.

Still comes out to almost the same thing.]]>Apr 27th 2008 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/26/falcon-northwests-portable-fragbox-8500-gaming-rig-gets-reviewe/This
https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=9060528&WishListTitle=FRAGBOX
is the closest I could get to the actual parts used by FNW to build the Fragbox 8500.

So for an extra $615, you get a handle, the FNW warranty/tech support, pre-overclocked system and video card, and logo. You could probably even make it cheaper, but this like I said is as close to the actual parts as I could find on Newegg. The exact memory they use is unknown.]]>Oct 1st 2008 7:24PM