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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 23, 2025
Kids these days will never know what it was like living through the early days of home PCs, when floppy disks, sharp edges, and beige colorways ruled the landscape. They're about to get a history lesson of sorts, though, and from none...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 11, 2025
Maingear might be best known for its elite lineup of custom desktop configurations like the Apex Force we reviewed a couple of months ago, but don't sleep on the boutique builder's laptop lineup. That's especially true of its newest model...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Apr 02, 2025
Maingear Apex Force PC: Starting at ~$6000 Maingear's beefiest gaming PC pairs stupendous specifications with custom cooling to create a machine that is both beautiful and bad-ass. Impeccable Attention To Detail Extravagant Maximalist...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 31, 2025
Maingear has once again retooled its sleek and well-crafted MG-1 desktop gaming PC lineup (see our review of a 2023 MG-1 config to see just how well put together these boutique machines are), this time with the latest generation CPU...
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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
This year's CES 2025 is not only bringing us new GPUs, but also some breath-taking systems to slot them into. Maingear has long been known for over-the-top liquid cooled masterpieces, and it's introduced two more upgraded systems to make...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Nov 13, 2024
Maingear ML-16 Gaming Laptop: Starting $1,699 (w/ 4060), $1,977 (w/ 4070) The Maingear ML-16 is a powerful, portable gaming laptop with a super-fast 240Hz display and premium build quality. Premium Build Quality Vibrant 16-inch QHD...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 08, 2024
Anytime there's a new processor or graphics card launch, system builders are quick to update their product lines. Such is the case with AMD's newfangled Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors base on Zen 5. One of the first to pounce...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 25, 2024
Maingear has launched an upgraded high-end gaming laptop that is brimming with top tier components and features, including flagship mobile CPU and GPU hardware components from Intel and NVIDIA, respectively. Called the ML-17, Maingear says...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jun 18, 2024
Maingear today announced its all-new ML-16 series of gaming laptops. The 16-inch lineup will come with an Intel Core Ultra 7 (155H) processor and a choice between either an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 or GeForce RTX 4070 mobile...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 15, 2024
Intel's latest flagship processor, the Core i9-14900KS, is a beastly slice of silicon as we discovered in our review. It also needs ample cooling to take full advantage of the binned chip's full potential. To help with that, boutique...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Mar 13, 2024
Maingear ZERO Legendary Boost Gaming PC: As Configured - $3,389 @ Maingear The culmination of over a decade of design, Maingear's ZERO moves critical connectors to the back of the motherboard, giving it the cleanest looks of any computer...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 07, 2024
Maingear, a builder of boutique PCs for gaming and content creation (and anything else, really), is rolling out a refresh of its North series desktops. Normally this type of thing would coincide with a new line of CPUs or GPUs from AMD...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 24, 2024
Boutique builder Maingear is on a mission to clean up the PC as you know it. Sure, Maingear's cable management is already some of the best in the business—that's one of the things that typically separates a boutique outfit from a bulk...
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- Mon, Jan 08, 2024
Maingear is joining the push for desktops with cables hidden behind the motherboard, but the company isn't content with simply formulating its own designs. Instead, Maingear is aiming for standardizing rear cable connections for the...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 28, 2023
In case you missed it, Maingear recently unveiled a 'Drops' program in which the boutique system builder looks to dive "back into our roots" with preconfigured systems based on the hottest hardware (something we can obviously get behind at...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jun 29, 2023
As is customary when there's a graphics card released, PC makers unveil system configurations featuring the shiny new part, which in this case is NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060. The boutique builders at Maingear used the affordable GPU launch...
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Dave Altavilla, Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 13, 2023
We had another chance to visit our friends at Maingear and build a custom gaming PC decked out with high-end hardware, including AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU. This is the first time we've done so since the boutique builder...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Feb 22, 2023
If your heart doesn't set a-flutter when you hear "Intel Arc," well, that's understandable. The extant parts based on Intel's Alchemist architecture are squarely mid-range or entry-level GPUs, and they suffered significant issues on launch...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 26, 2023
MAINGEAR MG-1 Gaming Desktop: Starting At $1499 The Maingear MG-1 is the fastest pre-built gaming PC we've ever tested. It also makes for a solid workstation, and it's not hard to look at, either. Excellent Performance Massive Room...
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Chris Suapaia - Fri, Nov 18, 2022
We are obsessed with DIY-built desktops as a matter of principle around here—we are tech geeks, after all. Nevertheless, we can still appreciate the system builders who do things right and offer beautiful rigs with extra flourish. It seems...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 12, 2022
It's taken a few months but Project Stealth, the joint collaboration between Maingear and Gigabyte to turn cable management on its head, is now available to configure and purchase. Pricing on the innovative prebuilt gaming desktop starts...
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Dave Altavilla - Thu, Jul 07, 2022
Pre-built gaming PCs have gained in popularity dramatically, as crypto demand and chip shortages drove graphics cards and other component prices through the roof. That said, regardless of current PC components price points (which are now drifting back to MSRP thank goodness), we've always seen...
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