We can’t blame the company for equipping our review sample of the Tiki with the absolute best components possible (at least, for the time being, until RTX cards come out) - it easily bested the comparable competition (in size and performance tier) with its Core i7-8086K, Titan Xp graphics card, and 1.5TB Intel Optane 905P SSD (which in itself, adds over $2,200 to the bill). You’d be hard pressed to find a DIY chassis that small that can accommodate everything inside the Tiki, and you’d be even harder pressed to find one with custom paint options quite like this. The Falcon Northwest Tiki is still as awe-inspiring as before, and its small footprint and powerful components make it desirable even for seasoned PC builders. The company stated that although they are happy to overclock the CPU and GPU for their customers upon request, it can add a few days to the build process due to the additional stability testing required before shipping. Special paint mixes called Rain, Flames and Clouds (included on our review sample) will add $688, $750 and $938 to the total, respectively.įalcon Northwest doesn’t charge for the RGB LED strip or the overclocking. The company’s Exotix paintwork starts at $375 for a single color. The mainstream platforms (AMD X470, Intel Z370) support up to 32GB (2 x 16GB) of memory, but the X299-equipped Tiki can house up to 64GB (4 x 16GB) of DDR4 SO-DIMM memory. The Falcon Northwest Tiki’s tiny footprint and unique design don't come without a price, with default AMD X470, Intel Z370 and X299 configurations starting at $2,492, $2,580, and $3,351, respectively. The Falcon Northwest Tiki review sample in our lab easily bested the other PCs in the field with its overclocked CPU and top-end (the very top) Nvidia graphics card. However, we wouldn’t recommend configuring a system with this drive unless you absolutely need that level of random storage performance, but even then, the ridiculously high price tag is hard to justify. The 1.5TB Intel Optane 905P U.2 NVMe SSD easily outperformed the other storage devices inside the Corsair One Elite and our test rig (a 512GB Samsung PM961 M.2 NVMe SSD and a 480GB Kingston HyperX Savage SATA 6GB/s SSD, respectively), especially in random read and write performance (Optane’s staple).Īlthough we tested the drive at queue depth 2 (QD2 - what we consider to be indicative of an average user’s workloads and tasks), these numbers aren’t in line with Intel’s rated performance (the company rates random read and write performance over 500,000 IOPS) However, applications that use all of the available threads (higher queue depths) to perform storage tasks will certainly get their money’s worth from the over $2,200 component,and will likely hit that advertised performance threshold.
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