Luxury PC company Maingear launches '90's style Retro95 beige PC — company known for flashy rigs with custom cooling and automotive paint brings old-school aesthetics to modern hardware
This 'sleeper build' comes with up to a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, GeForce RTX 5080, 96GB DDR5, and 8TB storage.

New Jersey-based system b uilder Maingear has launched a beige desktop to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power. The new Maingear Retro95 is what some might call a ready-made ‘sleeper build,’ a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The “limited drop” Retro95 is available today, with prices starting at $1,599.



In Maingear’s words, the new Retro95 is “brings back the unmistakable style of a '90s-era horizontal desktop, now supercharged with cutting-edge hardware.” Some of the hardware you will find in top-end configurations will include the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, up to 96GB DDR5 RAM, and 8TB of PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD storage.
In addition to those performance component essentials, Maingear says that the Retro95 is “engineered with modern thermals and whisper-quiet air cooling for high performance with low noise.” That means no liquid or hybrid cooling, but it is good to know that high-end systems will come with Noctua fans and an 850W PSU. These cases also have capacity for an optional optical drive.
The case caught our eye, and we recognized it as SilverStone’s FLP01 horizontal desktop case. A Maingear spokesperson confirmed that this is a "customized iteration of the Silverstone FLP01."
“Honoring the classic era of gaming”
“This one is for the gamers who lugged CRTs to LAN parties, swapped out disks between levels, and got their gaming news from magazines,” said Wallace Santos, Maingear CEO and founder. “The Retro95 drop is our way of honoring the classic era of gaming, with a system that looks like the one you had as a kid, but runs like the monster you’d spec from Maingear today.”
The $1,599 starter version of the PC will come with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050, AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, ID-Cooling IS-67-XT cooler, stock fans, and MSI B650 VC-WIFI II motherboard, 16GB T-Force Delta RGB DDR5 6400MT/s (2x 8GB), a 1TB T-Force A440 SSD, and 650W MSI MAG A650GL power supply. This pre-built PC is a limited edition, with Maingear stating that “Once they're gone, it’s game over.”
The SilverStone FLP01 case transcended April Fools status to become a real PC chassis several months ago. Moreover, we saw the PC tower style FLP02 (also beige and retro) unwrapped at Computex in this May. If you are a 100% PC DIY devotee, or are outside the range of Maingear shipments, or miss this limited edition, then the empty SilverStone cases are probably for you.
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Dr3ams WTF!? Why? The last thing I want is a retro horizontal case and a CRT shaped monitor on my desk.Reply -
cknobman Went and built one for right at $2400.Reply
If that build was using a 5070ti instead of a 5070 then I would buy.
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Exploding PSU This sort of aesthetic is before my time.Reply
And I'm a hardcore sucker for hypermodern, angular, LED-ridden, slather-everything-in-super-bright-colours aesthetic (blame my Mirror's Edge upbringing for that)...
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gburke
It would be fun to play Doom 2 on that. : )Admin said:Maingear launches its Retro95 beige desktop, hoping to tempt in fans of retro PCs who, despite themselves, crave modern processing power.
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nookoool Reminds me of an Amiga 2000/3000. The entire thing is kinda of a fail since it doesn't come with a compliment beige white keyboard and monitor.Reply -
LolaGT If you come from the 1990s then you remember these case styles. I think they still look great and I'd be all about a mini/mid tower XT beige 1995 sleeper build, if I could just get the case only.Reply -
DS426 My era. :) Kind of cool, though I wouldn't spec it really high as I'd want my big 32" 1440P monitors for high(er)-end gaming. Anyways, I'm one to appreciate sleeper builds, and then you throw in retro... good stuff.Reply
I customized it on their website and have to say it's a no-go for lack of choice: absolutely zero Radeon GPU's available. Also, strangely, they offer one Intel CPU alternative, a 245K. No 265K option, really? Some people might actually want to use this for things over than just gaming.
Looks like I'd also be in the camp of just buying that case and building it myself.
Fun fact: ever wondered why the C: drive is the first drive letter assigned on your PC? It goes back to the floppy drive days where a PC might have two floppy drives to copy data from one to the other. Windows will assign A: and B: to them by default, though that could be changed just as today. The crazy thing is that Windows will still do it, lol!
zZV4jSeBvFsView: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZV4jSeBvFs -
TerryLaze
Read the end of the article...this product is based on a case that is being sold and is just slightly modified.LolaGT said:If you come from the 1990s then you remember these case styles. I think they still look great and I'd be all about a mini/mid tower XT beige 1995 sleeper build, if I could just get the case only. -
Unolocogringo Reminds me of my first computer.Reply
A 94 model Packard Bell.
P75
16 MB ram
4 MB Cirrus logic video.
850 MB Conner hard drive
Running a upgrade disk to Win 95 from 3.1.
Bought if from a graduating college student for auto-cad.
Then the games began. o_O
Special DOS boot disk for Janes flight simulators. -
garioch7 Being a Canadian, I was fortunate enough to purchase a Maingear desktop that served me well for many years. When it finally began to cause problems, I sent it back to Maingear, but the shipping both ways was over $2K CA, and the repair only $600.00 US. For that money, I could have bought a new computer. It started to die again a year later, but I could not afford the exchange rate when I replaced it with a 2019 Dell XPS 8930 SE, which is still running fine.Reply
Back when I bought my one and only Maingear, which I loved, they had an "Angelic Warranty": free technical phone support for life! It was a great service.
The computer was awesome. I wish I had had the money to purchase another, but there was a divorce, and that reduced my income and savings so drastically, that I had to forgo buying another Maingear. The exchange rate added another almost 40% to the price of the Maingear computer I was looking at, and then there were the draconian shipping costs!
I do a lot of HD video editing, so I need a high-end computer. Maingear fit the bill, and it handled HD video editing without a sweat.
All of that said, that newest offering by Maingear would not interest me at all. I don't want a retro computer.
Just my two cents. Have a great day.
Regards,
Phil