Falcon Northwest DRX (2023) Review: Power Unleashed

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Falcon Northwest has been one of the longest running companies in the custom PC world and has built its reputation on gorgeous, high performance desktop and laptop gaming PCs. This year, it took its DRX desktop-replacement line-up back to the drawing board and has now returned with a thinner, lighter, and more powerful model than ever before. 

The new DRX is power unbridled. It features a 24-core Intel Core i9-13900HX processor, your choice of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 or RTX 4090 mobile GPU (unlocked to run at full power), a minimum of 32GB of memory and 2TB of NVMe storage, and a gorgeous 17.3-inch 4K, 144Hz G-Sync display. The specs are top notch, but the improvements don’t end there. The Falcon Northwest DRX is an outstanding, premium option that’s well worth considering if you’re shopping for an upgrade.  

Desktop replacement. That’s a term that doesn’t get thrown around too much anymore, but for a good long time, it was an entire category of laptop. They threw size and weight to the wind in favor of sheer power. They were also quite expensive and understandably hard to travel with, so as gaming laptops chased thin and light designs, desktop replacements fell out of vogue for many people. 

Falcon Northwest carried the torch. Its DRX line of laptops used desktop-caliber parts, outperforming what would otherwise be possible in the notebook form factor. That alone made them compelling. They were, in essence, full-fledged gaming PCs that had the ability to travel. Sure, at 10+ pounds, not very easily, but it was possible and a sure sight easier than carting a full tower everywhere. 

And yet, here we are in 2023 and the idea of a desktop replacement is once again upon us in a big way. Technology has advanced enough