Drool: Maingear's New OC'd Core i7 Gaming Rigs
Well, I'll be damned if Maingear hasn't just given me that Friday feeling on a damp and dreary, rainy Thursday.
Maingear yesterday announced that it has started shipping a bad-ass new line of gaming rigs that are enough to make your pulse quicken. Ranging from $2,249 to a dream crushing $5,149, the top of the line F1X packs an overclocked Core i7, maintenance free X20 watercooling, 12GB of triple–channel DDR3 RAM, a Blu-ray burner, and last but certainly not least, an 80GB SSD to complement the 1.5TB of regular HDD storage.
Peep the specs below and if anyone happens to have a spare five grand lying around and is feeling philanthropic, you know where to find me.

And, if you're one of those harsh but realistic people who thinks believes knows it's not just what's on the inside that counts, these machines are also super sleek.
Oooh pretty!




Yes it can.
Spec requirements:
Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP Pentium® II 350 MHz or faster 32 MB RAM 250 MB hard drive space 256 color display 640x480 resolution 8x CD-ROM drive DirectX® 9.0 or higher (included on CD) 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compliant video card DirectX compliant sound card Mouse
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Even at lawyer rates, $3000 for a couple hrs of work is pushing it.
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On another note, why does the "zoom" link under the picture show a picture that's the same resolution?
Yes it can.
Spec requirements:
Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP Pentium® II 350 MHz or faster 32 MB RAM 250 MB hard drive space 256 color display 640x480 resolution 8x CD-ROM drive DirectX® 9.0 or higher (included on CD) 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compliant video card DirectX compliant sound card Mouse
Even at lawyer rates, $3000 for a couple hrs of work is pushing it.
Some will snub their noses. But everyone would like to have the nice
extras. Blu Ray, SSD, over the top memory.
I won't snub and could care less about the liquid cooling/overclock but... that is way too much money for those parts.
Nice and clean inside though.
They can easily do much higher OC's.
How to get 99% of i5-750's to 3.6
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/256144-29-lga1156-core-overclocking-guide
Same for an i7-920
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/253365-29-core-overclocking-guide
No reason maingear can't do higher Overclocks. 3.6 is something 99% of i5/i7 chips can hit.
Sure they need extra to pay for tech support, but those exact components come out to ~$3k on newegg.
Charging over 2k to do an OC that barely beats turboboost and 1 year of support is a major rip off.
Hell even Dell 3 year on site next day support and full accidental protection only costs $600 ...
I know we can do higher - we do it all the time on our direct systems. But these are mild overclocks meant for mass-production retail systems. The F1X 500 is the #2 best selling Gaming PC on Tigerdirect.com right now. It's a completely different game than our BTO, direct systems. Different customers, different needs.
As to overclocks, we've been overclocking systems since 2002. And we've had to SUPPORT them. We've seen overclocks fail in year 2 and 3. We stay conservative. There's no reason to eek out a few hundred more MHz except to win a benchmark.
Yes, the F1X is tamer than we normally do. We take 960's to 3.86GHz and 975's to 4.0GHz. But we have much more time with those systems.
With the F1X it's out the door within 5 days.
As to "overpriced" - tell me what price is fair that will keep my employees around, pay taxes, insurance, packaging, marketing, etc. There's more to the cost of a system than the parts when you're talking about a whole company backing it up.