NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 690 on Monday, a graphics card that houses two Kepler cores on one single card. It certainly looked very flashy, with lots of chromium-plated aluminium spread across the GPU in order to keep everything cool along with the card’s fan. It commands a pretty penny too: $999. So who’s the first company crazy enough to fit one of these cards into their system? Maingear, of course.
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Maingear to offer NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
Maingear Pulse 11 picks up where the M11x left off
The Alienware M11x will soon reach end of life, and although it was an interesting idea to try and pack as much power into a small footprint as possible, ultimately it didn’t gain much traction. That doesn’t seem to prevent others from walking down a similar path. Engadget has the details of the Maingear Pulse 11, an 11.6-inch gaming laptop that seeks to continue the small yet powerful legacy.
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Maingear teases Ivy Bridge upgrades galore
Today there's a virtual torrent of 3rd Generation Intel Core news coming down, and the Ivy Bridge family has been tipped on everybody who's anybody in the computer manufacturing world - including Maingear! What we're seeing from this desktop making bunch is several teasers for their upcoming Ivy Bridge-toting computer including "all new smaller designs with 360 degree clean aesthetics." Always nice to hear from a desktop computer company.
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MAINGEAR Solo custom all-in-one revealed
MAINGEAR has outed its latest custom PC, the Solo, a 21-inch all-in-one which promises to be the most flexible of its ilk. Fronted by a 1080p Full HD display - with an optional 10-point multitouch touchscreen - the Solo kicks off with a Core i3-2125 processor and 4GB of memory, but can be upgraded to a Core i7-2600S and 16GB of DDR3-1333. MAINGEAR also slots in 32GB of SSD caching memory as standard, to turn any regular HDD into a hybrid drive for up to 8x the performance, supposedly.
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MAINGEAR outs AMD HD 7970 toting gaming PCs
AMD has launched a new video card, the AMD Radeon HD 7970, and performance PC specialist MAINGEAR has wasted no time in slotting it inside another beastly desktop. The MAINGEAR SHIFT and F131 each offer the new 28nm Radeon as an option, pairing it with up to Intel hexacore Core i7 3.3GHz processors and up to 32GB of DDR3 memory.
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Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition debuts: 5.6GHz overclock
Intel has outed its latest high-end processor, the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition, along with a new chipset, the X79 Express, and manufacturers are already jumping all over the performance pair. Maingear has updated its SHIFT, F131 and Quantum SHIFT desktop PCs to use the Core i7-3960X chip, which runs at 3.3GHz but can be overclocked to a huge 5.6GHz thanks to it coming unlocked, as well as 3.9GHz using Intel Turbo, packs six cores and 12 threads, and has 15MB of cache. Upgraders hoping to use the new processor may be frustrated by Intel’s new LGA 2011 socket, however.
Maingear is now offering PCs with Intel Core i7 2700K CPU
Maingear has been cranking out some cool computers for a long time now aimed at the gamer and enthusiast. The company has a cool new processor that it is now offering in its line of gaming rigs from Intel. The new processor is the just announced Intel Core i7 2700k. The 2700K will be offered in the Shift and the F131 desktop machines.
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Maingear offers liquid cooled graphics card options for overclockers
If you are really into overclocking you know that heat is the enemy and if you want your rig to be fast and stable you need to move beyond air cooling. Maingear has been offering computer systems for a while now that have liquid cooling options for the CPUs. This allows the CPU to run cooler and the tweaker can get the operating speed higher to provide more performance.
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Maingear updates Vybe gaming computers
Maingear offered up the small and low price Vybe gaming computers back in April for the first time. The company has now announced that it is updating the line with some new hardware and features. One of the new features is a new chassis design and units that are pre-configured with certain specifications to make the turnaround time faster.
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CyperPower and Maingear offer Intel Z68 chipset gaming PCs and workstations
I mentioned this morning that Asus had a couple new mainboards that used the Intel Z68 chipset inside. Asus isn't the only company that is offering the new chipset today. Gaming computer markers Maingear and CyberPower have both announced new desktop computers that use the Z68 chipset. The desktops are available as gaming rigs and as workstations for the office. The new chipset brings some of the same features that the Asus mainboard offers.
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MAINGEAR overclock 2nd-gen Core i7 to 5GHz in new PC range
MAINGEAR has announced a new range of desktop PCs based on Intel's 2nd-gen Core 2011 processors, including overclocked models ramping CPU speeds up to 5GHz. The updated SHIFT, F131, VYBE and X-CUBE systems can each be outfitted with a choice of Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, and those supporting Intel's Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 can be pre-overclocked by MAINGEAR.
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Road Warriors Rejoice: Maingear Releases Clutch Notebooks
Maingear is releasing a new series of notebooks by the name "Clutch" built for business professionals and students on the lookout for small, powerful, mobile solutions. Offering both a 13.3" and 15.6" screen, these new notebooks are fitted with Intel® Core i series mobile processors, up to 8GB of DDR3-1066 memory, a 512GB SSD HDD, and a (rather bulky) optional docking station for all those inputs and outputs you love so very much. But wait! There's custom etching!
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