Maingear Launches 'Personal Supercomputer' Line
Posted 11/02/09 at 11:01:00 AM by Paul Lilly
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Let's be realistic for a moment. Few would classify Maingear's new Shift series as supercomputers for the homestead, but we'll give Maingear this much: these new PCs pack a punch.
"The Shift bucks the trend of plastic, bloated, commodity PCs. It's a statement of our commitment to performance, reliability, and support," said Wallace Santos, CEO and Founder of Maingear. "Featuring vertical airflow, all the cooling necessary for today's high performance, and backed by the best technical support team in the business, Maingear is committed to maintaining our lead in the market."
The configurable PCs come built around your choice of Intel's P55 or X58 platform and come with a Core i7 800 series or 900 series CPU. DDR3 memory options include up to 8GB on the P55 platform, or up to 24GB in the X58 setup. You can choose from a plethora of videocards culminating in a pair of dual-GPU GTX 295s, and for storage duties, Maingear will slap up to 6 mechanical or 12 SSD drives into your rig. Other options include Blu-ray, liquid cooling, Razer peripherals, Killer NIC Xeno Pro card, and of course Windows 7.
Maingear promises each Shift system will ship with no bloatware, and they've all been tuned to take advantage of GPGPU computing.
The new PCs are available now starting at $2,200 (P55) and $2,600 (X58). In Q4, Maingear says it will add a Xeon-based setup with Nvidia's Quadro graphics to the lineup.
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Ridiculous
Submitted by UndeniablyPC on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:27am
So basically when I do the math via newegg. It would cost you around $1375 for all the parts excluding the case. So here is my question how much does that case cost, and seriously maingear get a clue. Maingear your pretty much doubling the price it costs you to make that computer and that is just plain lame. Also, only two years support for that price is ridiculous, especially since most if not all those components have longer warranties than that. All I can say is, "scam, scam, scam."
P.S. Why the hell did you guys use the EVGA Classified when your not even using triple SLI or even SLI period. I mean that board at $415 is like a 1/3 of the price of the components. I swear your marketing guys need to get a clue. I understand that you have overhead, but come on, you put a $169 videocard in a $2600 machine, WTF. Ug, I could go on, but these guys are just ridiculous.
me leik!!!!
Submitted by nsk chaos on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 7:00pm
b-day/x-mas present pl0x??? XD
Badass to extreme.
Submitted by Valerie on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 4:02pm
Badass to extreme.
MainGear on the outside...Raven inside...
Submitted by misha573 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 1:47pm
Case gut looks exactly like the guts of the Silverstone Raven RV01...wait...it is exactly the guts of the raven!
Hey, can I get replacement panels for the guts of my raven? Then I can change the "skins" on my case...that'd be neat.
Vertical mounting
Submitted by K0BALT on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 11:45am
I'm liking the idea of mounting everything so that it vents out the top. Wouldn't be surprised to start seeing this in future cases from other companies. Not sure about the usb, etc. coming out the top, though.
at least it seems like
Submitted by pl4t0 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 11:40am
at least it seems like you're getting your money's worth. Honestly, I'm surprised that they START as low as they do.
The price isn't all too bad
Submitted by dag1992 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 9:44am
The price isn't all too bad all things considered. $9,000 pcs are cool and all, but I'd actually like to able to buy one of these without having to remortgage the house.
Looks pretty badass.
Submitted by lunchbox73 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 9:29am
Looks pretty badass.
Submitted by nsk chaos on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 7:01pm
it IS pretty badass =)
anyone think you can
Submitted by B10H4Z4RD on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 9:25am
anyone think you can overclock one of these into the future?
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