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January 21st, 2010, 04:05
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It's no Shift (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/maingear-shift-reviewed-7-000-can-shatter-a-lot-of-records/), but Maingear (http://hd.engadget.com/tag/Maingear/)'s new line of F1X gaming rigs are still delightfully potent in their own right. Starting at $2,249 (F1X 200) and sailing well north of $5,149 for the top-end F1X 500, this trio of desktops runs on a 64-bit copy of Windows 7 (http://hd.engadget.com/tag/Windows7/) and packs an 80GB SSD boot drive, an overclocked Intel Core i7 (http://hd.engadget.com/tag/Corei7/) CPU and an optional Blu-ray burner. The big fellow touts a 3.6GHz OC'd Core i7-975, 12GB of DDR3 memory, a 1.5TB Western Digital storage drive, 6x Blu-ray writer, a closed-loop watercooling system, 1,000 watt power supply and twin ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPUs (1GB). The other guys step things down just a wee bit, but you can rest assured that today's latest games will be handled with ease should you snag any of 'em. Speaking of which -- they're only available from Tiger Direct, Circuit City (the website) and CompUSA, so don't waste your time looking elsewhere for a better deal.
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It's no Shift (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/maingear-shift-reviewed-7-000-can-shatter-a-lot-of-records/), but Maingear (http://hd.engadget.com/tag/Maingear/)'s new line of F1X gaming rigs are still delightfully potent in their own right. Starting at $2,249 (F1X 200) and sailing well north of $5,149 for the top-end F1X 500, this trio of desktops runs on a 64-bit copy of Windows 7 (http://hd.engadget.com/tag/Windows7/) and packs an 80GB SSD boot drive, an overclocked Intel Core i7 (http://hd.engadget.com/tag/Corei7/) CPU and an optional Blu-ray burner. The big fellow touts a 3.6GHz OC'd Core i7-975, 12GB of DDR3 memory, a 1.5TB Western Digital storage drive, 6x Blu-ray writer, a closed-loop watercooling system, 1,000 watt power supply and twin ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPUs (1GB). The other guys step things down just a wee bit, but you can rest assured that today's latest games will be handled with ease should you snag any of 'em. Speaking of which -- they're only available from Tiger Direct, Circuit City (the website) and CompUSA, so don't waste your time looking elsewhere for a better deal.
Gallery: Maingear introduces F1X gaming desktops with overclocked Core i7 CPUs (http://www.engadget.com/photos/maingear-introduces-f1x-gaming-desktops-with-overclocked-core-i7-cpus/)
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