RAK
The 4U rackmount you would expect from Falcon Northwest
Rackmount PC cases have never been sexy. They're usually ugly, hot, loud and cheaply built. Rackmounts have been so un-loveable they're usually shut away in a separate server room.
RAK is different. It's meant to be seen, but not heard. It's ideal for home theater equipment racks, audio engineering racks, and small businesses where workers and workstations must coexist. Designed to cool the fastest multi-core CPUs on the planet, as well as look right at home next to the highest end audio components, RAK is a unique product.
A LOOK WORTHY
OF A FALCON
You won't hide this in a server room
The faceplate is 4 millimeter thick extruded aluminum, anodized a rich black and bead-blasted to resist fingerprints. It's a look that will hold its own in a rack with the highest end home theater components. But form must follow function. The extensive wrap-around venting allows for voluminous air intake. And beneath this beauty lies the most beastly fully-sealed CPU liquid cooling system ever fit into a 4U rackmount.
"This Falcon Northwest system is such a nice workstation that it makes me think I’ve been doing it wrong for many years."
- Wendell Wilson, Level1Techs
TWIN TURBINES
The largest CPU liquid cooling system ever put into a 4U
Cooling in rackmounts has always been an engineering challenge. The 4U height standard limits what can physically fit. But some of our clients need to run 96-core, 192-thread CPUs that burn incredible amounts of power.
So we equipped RAK with the largest CPU liquid cooling system ever put into a 4U. Twin (or quad!) 140mm German-made fans feed the same 280mm liquid cooling used in our Talon mid-tower systems. Cooled liquid flows into our custom oversized rectangular copper coldplate to keep even the largest multi-core CPUs running cool.
Depending on equipment loadout, we offer both high performance and ultra-low noise quad cooling fan setups.
"a rackmount workstation faster than all of the single socket workstations that you would get from a Lenovo, Dell or HP because it’s just tuned that much better. If you need the fastest workstation available, this is your option."
- ServeTheHome
CAVERNOUS
CAPACITY
We went deep for RAK
RAK's 19" depth means it can hold the largest Extended ATX motherboards made, or even quad cooling fans for noise suppression (or even more cooling). It supports huge power supplies, 3-slot thick or multiple graphics cards, optical drives and 4 or 8 upfront SATA SSD bays (optional) as well as a 9th internal 2.5" drive bay. RAK has the highest loadout capability in our lineup.
QUIET POWER
RAK FOR THEATERS & AUDIO PRODUCTION
Many PC makers can build a powerful PC. Few PC makers can build an extremely quiet PC. A powerful and extremely quiet PC? Now that's truly rare.
Whether you just want to add big-screen PC gaming capability to your home theater, or you're an audio professional that needs a workstation that won't intrude on your recordings, we can configure RAK for powerful silence. Using extra low-speed cooling fans, special power supplies that can handle 700+ Watt loading while remaining nearly silent, and extra acoustic tuning done by hand, the home theater configurations of the RAK deliver a level of CPU and GPU power you have to (barely) hear to believe.
LUDICROUS
SPEED
ACOUSTICS NOT A PRIORITY?
WE'LL TAKE THE GLOVES OFF.
Do you have a more traditional server rack environment in mind? If you don't need to worry about acoustics, we can crank the cooling to 11 and configure RAKs for ludicrous speed.
DESIGN DETAILS
No rack to install a RAK in? No problem.
RAK can be used without an equipment rack. The optional acoustic isolation feet can be added for use on a shelf or home theater hutch (mind the RAK's 19" depth plus some room for cables). The audiophile-grade high density rubber feet minimize vibration transfer to your shelf. They're adhesive and can be removed at any time if you decide to rack the RAK later.
DESIGN DETAILS
No rack to install a RAK in? No problem.
RAK can be used without an equipment rack. The optional acoustic isolation feet can be added for use on a shelf or home theater hutch (mind the RAK's 19" depth plus some room for cables). The audiophile-grade high density rubber feet minimize vibration transfer to your shelf. They're adhesive and can be removed at any time if you decide to rack the RAK later.
DESIGN DETAILS
No rack to install a RAK in? No problem.
RAK can be used without an equipment rack. The optional acoustic isolation feet can be added for use on a shelf or home theater hutch (mind the RAK's 19" depth plus some room for cables). The audiophile-grade high density rubber feet minimize vibration transfer to your shelf. They're adhesive and can be removed at any time if you decide to rack the RAK later.
DESIGN DETAILS
Get a Grip
RAK's sturdy mounting tabs and solid metal handles are included, and are easily removable. You can use just the tabs, the tabs and the handles, or neither.
DESIGN DETAILS
Get a Grip
RAK's sturdy mounting tabs and solid metal handles are included, and are easily removable. You can use just the tabs, the tabs and the handles, or neither.
DESIGN DETAILS
Get a Grip
RAK's sturdy mounting tabs and solid metal handles are included, and are easily removable. You can use just the tabs, the tabs and the handles, or neither.
DESIGN DETAILS
Optional Siderails
RAK has mounting holes for industry-standard side rails mounting. Drawer-style rail slides are an available option on our RAK configurer.
DESIGN DETAILS
Optional Siderails
RAK has mounting holes for industry-standard side rails mounting. Drawer-style rail slides are an available option on our RAK configurer.
DESIGN DETAILS
Optional Siderails
RAK has mounting holes for industry-standard side rails mounting. Drawer-style rail slides are an available option on our RAK configurer.
DESIGN DETAILS
Our logo. Your look.
The Falcon logo on RAK's front is a fully dimmable RGB. Controlled via software, colors from solid to rainbow, dim to bright are possible. Home Theater/Quiet configurations include a dimming filter for barely-there lighting needed for dark theaters. The lit logo can also be replaced with silver, gold, or copper metallic inserts available on our configurer.
DESIGN DETAILS
Our logo. Your look.
The Falcon logo on RAK's front is a fully dimmable RGB. Controlled via software, colors from solid to rainbow, dim to bright are possible. Home Theater/Quiet configurations include a dimming filter for barely-there lighting needed for dark theaters. The lit logo can also be replaced with silver, gold, or copper metallic inserts available on our configurer.
DESIGN DETAILS
Our logo. Your look.
The Falcon logo on RAK's front is a fully dimmable RGB. Controlled via software, colors from solid to rainbow, dim to bright are possible. Home Theater/Quiet configurations include a dimming filter for barely-there lighting needed for dark theaters. The lit logo can also be replaced with silver, gold, or copper metallic inserts available on our configurer.
DESIGN DETAILS
Our oversized CPU cooler coldplate
Designed to cool the highest wattage, highest threadcount, physically largest rectangular CPUs made, our massive coldplate and 280mm radiator is overkill for CPUs less than 96 cores. But we figure you won't mind if your CPU runs cooler and faster than needed?
DESIGN DETAILS
Our oversized CPU cooler coldplate
Designed to cool the highest wattage, highest threadcount, physically largest rectangular CPUs made, our massive coldplate and 280mm radiator is overkill for CPUs less than 96 cores. But we figure you won't mind if your CPU runs cooler and faster than needed?
DESIGN DETAILS
Our oversized CPU cooler coldplate
Designed to cool the highest wattage, highest threadcount, physically largest rectangular CPUs made, our massive coldplate and 280mm radiator is overkill for CPUs less than 96 cores. But we figure you won't mind if your CPU runs cooler and faster than needed?
DESIGN DETAILS
Easy Filtration
The front fans feature a flexible magnetic dust filter that simply peels off for easy cleaning.
DESIGN DETAILS
Easy Filtration
The front fans feature a flexible magnetic dust filter that simply peels off for easy cleaning.
DESIGN DETAILS
Easy Filtration
The front fans feature a flexible magnetic dust filter that simply peels off for easy cleaning.
DESIGN DETAILS
Lockable
RAK's front door closes with magnets, but if security is needed the optional keylock can be used to prevent any access to RAK's front controls or USB ports.
DESIGN DETAILS
Lockable
RAK's front door closes with magnets, but if security is needed the optional keylock can be used to prevent any access to RAK's front controls or USB ports.
DESIGN DETAILS
Lockable
RAK's front door closes with magnets, but if security is needed the optional keylock can be used to prevent any access to RAK's front controls or USB ports.
DESIGN DETAILS
RAK for Home Theater
With it's anodized aluminum faceplate, RAK looks right at home in high-end home theater racks next to the highest-end audiophile components.
DESIGN DETAILS
RAK for Home Theater
With it's anodized aluminum faceplate, RAK looks right at home in high-end home theater racks next to the highest-end audiophile components.
DESIGN DETAILS
RAK for Home Theater
With it's anodized aluminum faceplate, RAK looks right at home in high-end home theater racks next to the highest-end audiophile components.
LOAD IT UP
RAK has the largest capacity in our lineup
Supports Extended ATX motherboards up to the massive "EEB" sized 13" wide boards.
Support for multiple graphics cards in multi-GPU modes (note: NVIDIA has discontinued SLI)
Long power supplies up to 1,600 Watts
Push/Pull 4-fan cooling options for the 280mm liquid cooling (with most motherboards)
One internal 2.5" SSD bay
Two 5.25" flex bays capable of supporting:
4 or 8 hot-swap SATA SSDs
Optical drive
Up to two 3.5" spinning Hard Disk Drives
IDENTIFY.
PERSONALIZE.
BEAUTIFY.
With our custom UV-printing, you can personalize your RAK system faceplates.
You can color-code your RAKs by job function so you can identify them at a glance. We can add your company logo for touch of class to your equipment racks, or even just print a full color photo of your family on the front. Any graphics from functional to whimsical are possible.
READY TO
CONFIGURE YOURS?
Your RAK is waiting.
