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Hey all, thought I'd give you an update on some of the configuration changes we've made to our systems lately.

First off, you'll notice that many of our systems are getting USB 3.0 and Sata 6G support. USB 3.0 speeds are a dramatic increase over USB 2.0 - 5Gbps vs 480Mbps. Unreal.

Sata 6G will have no tangible affect on mechanical hard drives, but we're seeing some tests with unreleased SSDs that definitely take advantage of it. The boards we offer now don't support ...

Updated 1 Week Ago at 10:51 AM by ChrisMorley

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This is a rewrite and I changed the name, the original title was a joke referring to the Weird Al song “Virus Alert”

Seeing that I've worked on three computers recently affected by ether "Internet Security 2010" or "winlogon32" and I know it’s making the rounds, so just a reminder when you’re doing your monthly maintenance to update the old anti-virus. Also since there was some doubt in the legitimacy of this post I’ve add a link to their definition by Microsoft ...

Angelic Service is what we call our brand of customer service.

See, we see ourselves as a customer service company. We just happen to build the best, most wicked custom PCs on the market. But what truly sets us apart is what matters to our customers the most: service.

Anybody can put a bunch of parts together and sell it on the internet. Hearing some of the horror stories our customers have from experiences with other companies, it sounds like there are a lot out ...

Updated 3 Weeks Ago at 05:05 PM by ChrisMorley

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I want to help answer a question we get once in a while..."Why should I go with MAINGEAR?"

As consumers we're obsessed with quality when it comes to the cars we drive, the TV’s we watch and often times even with the clothes we wear. However, quality is often overlooked when we are in the market to purchase a new PC. The focus of large multinationals is on the price of their products.

You may be asking yourselves “how do multinationals get their price ...

One of the differentiators that companies, be they integrators or AIB (add-in-board) partners, use in the PC tech business is their warranties. And like the herd mentality that’s so prevalent in this business, what one does that’s even slightly successful is quickly duplicated by the rest.

In the AIB business, soon lifetime warranties became commonplace, and even “double lifetime” warranties. For companies that merely slapped stickers on boards manufactured by someone else, there ...