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WOW! This thing is huge! Wait, that sounds wrong . . . Beautiful beautiful machine, not a single wire out of... ...

OK. I'm very happy with my new system, I placed my order on the 20th of November:
X-Cube P55
Chassis: X-CUBE SFF Chassis - Black

Power Supply: 550W Silverstone Element ST50EF-PLUS SC

Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5 DX11

Motherboard: Intel P55 Media Series DP55WB mATX

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I am a new Maingear customer and judging from my less-than-one-week experience so far with MG, I will be one for quite... ...

"In an economy struggling to recover, with consumer confidence still near record lows and unemployment grinding upward, releasing an über-PC that tops out at over $7,000 may seem like madness. But the marketing tagline behind Maingear’s new, no-compromise Shift PC declares, “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. We’ve just erased it.” That about sums it up. The 58-pound brushed-aluminum ...

I originally wrote this for Digital Trends

Once upon a time PCs were terrible gaming platforms. *gasp* Why, you ask? Well, beside the obvious lack of horsepower or gaming-centric graphics accelerators, the CPUs were simply not capable of processing in hardware the necessary floating-point math required for today’s games.

Starting with the 80386, consumer desktop PCs were the first to benefit ...