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Engadget: Maingear unveils Core i7-packin' SHIFT, your own 'personal supercomputer'
CrunchGear: MAINGEAR ups its game, announces the SHIFT high performance line
| WOW 7.000 $ Rechenpower pur der SHIFT von MAINGEAR - http://maingear.com/custom/desktops/shift/ 15 days ago |
| @chrismorley That Maingear Shift looks MEAN! I really like the rotated motherboard to vent the heat out the top. http://tinyurl.com/yhnclus 18 days ago |
Maingear unveils Core i7-packin' SHIFT, your own 'personal supercomputer'
Engadget —
... We'll be straight with ya -- we're betting these "personal supercomputer" claims are just a bit out of line with reality, but even still, there's no denying that Maingear has shoved an insane amount of horsepower beneath the (admittedly large) hood ...
Maingear SHIFT
Geeky-Gadgets —
Maingear has launched a new range of PCs, called the Maingear Shift, which they call the ‘personal supercomputer that redefines computing performance, design and support.
The Maingear SHIFT harnesses the power of graphics processing units (GPU) and is designed to speed up everyday tasks like video and photo editing.
“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 ...
MAINGEAR ups its game, announces the SHIFT high performance line
CrunchGear —
Everyone, Maingear has created a beast in its new SHIFT series. These systems are massive towers of gaming and computing powering. You won’t find any design nonsense here. Every aspect of these boys were designed with performance in mind and it shows.
The Shift line has two slightly different systems available. the Intel P55 line comes with a Core i7 800 series, up to 8GB of RAM, a Intel Kingsberg P55 Extreme Series motherboard, and your choice of graphics card. Customizing starts at $2,199 for this line.
Got a little more ...
Maingear SHIFT “personal supercomputer” packs Core i7, up to 12 SSDs
SlashGear —
... launching desktop supercomputers, describing your performance PC as a “personal supercomputer” seems like asking for trouble. Still, that’s how Maingear are referring to their latest desktop, the SHIFT, packing as it does a choice of Intel Core i7 processor, stacks of DDR3-1600 memory, Asetek liquid-cooling and a choice of up to six regular hard-drives or twelve SSDs. ...
Maingear SHIFT Personal Supercomputer
TechFresh, Consumer Electronics Guide —
Maingear today unveiled a new range of PCs, called the Maingear Shift. This personal supercomputer is currently available in two models including the SHIFT Intel P55 and the SHIFT Intel X58. The former model comes with an Intel Core I7 800 series processor, Intel Kingsberg P55 Extreme Series motherboard, ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce graphics cards, and up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM. Meanwhile, the latter model features an Intel Core i7 900 series processor, the choice of either ATI Radeon HD and nVidia GeForce graphics cards, an EVGA X58 SLI Classified motherboard, and up to 24GB of DDR3 RAM. Both versions feature an ...
Maingear Shift makes a personal supercomputer, no kidding
Gizmo Watch —
Personalizing supercomputers is the new trend manufacturers are resorting too. Just days after we saw the Asus ESC 1000, a 1.1 Teraflop Supercomputer, we have Maingear flipping in its own versions of the personal supercomputer to redefine performance and design in personal computing. Dubbed the Maingear Shift Intel P55, the first PC in the two unveiled models, features an Intel Core I7 800 processor, ATI Radon or NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, Intel Kingsberg P55 Extreme motherboard and options to choose from up to 6 hard drives, or 12 SSDs and a Blu-ray or DVD player.
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Maingear Shift supercomputer adds ATI HD 5970 to options list
SlashGear —
Maingear launched its new high-end Shift personal supercomputer back on November 2. The desktop packs some serious punch with Core i7 CPUs and space for up to 12 SSDs along with 8GB of RAM and more.
With today’s official announcement that the AMD HD 5970 video card is available the Shift can now be had with not one but two of the dual GPU video cards. That is some very serious graphics processing power.
According to Maingear when equipped with two of the HD 5970 video cards the Shift is capable of 10 teraflops of visual computing power when enhanced with Maingear redline ...



