MAINGEAR has announced a new range of desktop PCs based on Intel’s 2nd-gen Core 2011 processors, including overclocked models ramping CPU speeds up to 5GHz. The updated SHIFT, F131, VYBE and X-CUBE systems can each be outfitted with a choice of Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, and those supporting Intel’s Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 can be pre-overclocked by MAINGEAR.
The systems also get standard SSDs for booting, 1600MHz+ Patriot memory and up to NVIDIA 3-way SLI or CrossFire multi-graphics options. As for the outside, they’ll finish the casings in your choice of auto-finish paint and even offer custom laser etching and engraving.
The new MAINGEAR systems will go up for sale on January 9 2011.
Press Release:
MAINGEAR PUSHES THE LIMITS WITH THE NEW 2nd GENERATION INTEL CORE PROCESSOR FAMILY AND EXPANDS SUPER STOCK OPTIONS
MAINGEAR expands their Super Stock options to all desktops with an overclocked CPU up to 5GHz and unique custom design choices
Kenilworth, New Jersey – January 5, 2011 – MAINGEAR, an award-winning PC system builder offering custom desktops, notebooks, workstations and media centers, embraces decadent performance with the new 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ family of processors while strengthening their SHIFT, F131, VYBE, and X-CUBE with new Super Stock options that pushes performance and personalization options. MAINGEAR continues to pioneer the ever-changing horizon of extreme personal computing, by utilizing the best possible configurations with eye catching designs. These new processor and Super Stock options will be available for sale on January 9, 2011 12:01am EST.
With the power of the new 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i3, Core™ i5 and Core™ i7 processor family, MAINGEAR desktops will be able to take advantage of the new and improved chipset features that offers a new architecture with shared cache delivering more performance and energy efficiency. The processor integrates CPU, graphics, memory controller, PCI Express all on a single chip. This allows end users to have extreme gaming, amazing multimedia, and flexible overclocking.
With Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 which will allow extreme overclocking options up to 5GHz on select systems, a more robust use of PCI-Express full-bandwidth lanes that will support USB 3.0 and SATA 6G as well as generate low heat with high clock speeds that offers an affordable price to performance option. MAINGEAR ran a performance test with the Intel® Core™ i7 2600K @ 4.8GHz compared to a stock Intel® Core™ i7 3.4GHz with Intel Turbo Boost enabled and resulted with 37% faster 3D rendering, 36% faster CPU Video encoding and 24% overall system performance.*
MAINGEAR has also expanded their SUPER STOCK options to all desktops. The SHIFT, F131, VYBE and X-CUBE now offer a more simplified configuration with a choice of their already performance packed STOCK configuration, or a SUPER STOCK option that is decked out with no-holds-barred performance and unique aesthetics. This is designed to make it easier for customers to quickly choose what level they want to start their customization at.
Some of the key features for SUPER STOCK options on various systems include:
• Upgraded or optimized chassis cooling (dependent on chassis)
• Motherboards supporting up to NVIDIA 3-way SLI or CrossFire™
• Liquid cooling is standard
• MAINGEAR Redline™ Overclocking Available
• Custom chassis design including auto quality paint and custom MARC laser etching options
• Standard SSD boot drives for responsiveness
• Premium 1600MHz+ DDR3 memory from Patriot
• Optimized for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround, XHD Gaming @ 2560×1600, or AMD EyeFinity multiple monitor gaming
• 80 PLUS Gold Power Supplies from Seasonic and Silverstone
The MAINGEAR SHIFT with Super Stock options also gains an upgrade to its exterior design. Sporting an optional carbon fiber reinforced chassis, the legacy of quality design and craftsmanship is easily displayed on the SHIFT, both inside and out. Always pushing performance to the razor’s edge with MAINGEAR’s overclocking expertise, the SHIFT is not only a processing powerhouse: it is a work of art.
“The launch of the Sandy Bridge platform could not have come at a better time,” said Wallace Santos CEO and Co-Founder of MAINGEAR. “We are now able to push more performance out of our systems further than ever before which has also allowed us to expand our popular Super Stock options to the rest of our system lineup.”
All of MAINGEAR products are supported with lifetime labor and phone support with one to three year hardware warranty. For more information about MAINGEAR’s desktops with Super Stock option solutions, click here
Even at its default 1GHz speed, Samsung’s Hummingbird is one of the finest mobile processor around, but are you really going to complain about getting the option to crank an extra 200 milion clock cycles out of it? Morfic over on the xda-developers forums has delivered a kernel permitting Nexus S owners to achieve just that, although he still has to fix an issue that disables the phone’s Bluetooth capabilities.Still, if you value ludicrous speed over wireless peripherals, the source link is your friend.
AMD’s latest Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 GPUs are official, and ASUS has wasted no time slapping them into a couple of new video cards. However, they’ve also taken a few liberties and made some tweaks of their own; the ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU/2DIS/1GD5 and EAH6870/2DI2S/1GD5 cards are each overclocked out of the box, to 790MHz and 913MHz respectively, and they each get the company’s Voltage Tweak tech which promises up to 50-percent performance boost over the AMD reference design.
They’ve also tweaked the cooling systems, replacing the plastic cover with an aluminum one; good for a 14-degree C drop in surface temperatures, apparently. They’ve also installed a custom-flattened, all-copper heat pipe system that drops running temperatures by 20-percent and makes for a quieter card, too.
Up to six simultaneous displays can be supported, and there are HDMI, Mini DisplayPort, DVI and D-Sub connections to choose from. Each has 1GB of memory. No word of official pricing at this stage, but a quick Google pulls up numbers in the region of $215 for the EAH6850 and $240 for the EAH6870.
Press Release:
ASUS Releases New EAH6800 Series Graphics Cards
The latest generation cards from AMD are enhanced by ASUS for more engaged gaming
Featuring even more processing power than the successful EAH5000 Series of graphics cards, the new ASUS EAH6800 Series continues to serve PC enthusiasts with cutting-edge technology and a range of exclusive performance-boosting improvements to the AMD reference design.
Both the EAH6850 DirectCU/2DIS/1GD5 and EAH6870/2DI2S/1GD5 cards feature AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology, AMD HD3D technology and DirectX® 11 support. In addition, exclusive Voltage Tweak overclocking technology offers a 50%* performance boost over the reference design. The EAH6850 DirectCU and EAH6870 also ship with factory overclocked cores set to 790MHz and 913MHz..
The ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU also incorporates exclusive DirectCU cooling that uses custom-flattened, all-copper heat pipes in direct contact with the GPU core. This improves cooling by 20%* compared to the reference design and offers quiet operation when the card is idle. The ASUS EAH6870 is equipped with an aluminum fan cover that improves cooling efficiency and reduces surface temperatures by 14 degrees Celsius, compared to the reference design’s plastic cover.
Product Highlights
Exclusive ASUS Voltage Tweak technology offers real-time voltage adjustment of various GPU components, including the core and video memory, making ASUS EAH6800 Series graphics cards 50%* faster than the reference design.
The EAH6850 DirectCU is factory overclocked to perform at 790MHz. This is 15MHz higher than stock performance, resulting in higher frame rates in games.
ASUS proprietary cooling technology, DirectCU, puts copper heat pipes in direct contact with the GPU core. This results in the EAH6850 DirectCU running 20%* cooler than the reference design.
The EAH6870 features a stylish aluminum fan cover that dissipates heat more efficiently. This lowers surface temperatures by 14 degrees Celsius, compared to the reference design’s plastic cover.
Proprietary AMD Eyefinity technology supports up to six** displays for a fully immersive viewing experience.
AMD HD3D technology for stereoscopic 3D gaming and movie watching.
* Subject to system configuration and usage. Results may vary.
** DisplayPort 1.2 compatible monitors required for six-screen AMD Eyefinity output. Please visit www.amd.com/Eyefinity for more information.
Availability
ASUS EAH6800 Series graphics cards are expected to ship October 22, 2010 and will be available from authorized ASUS resellers.
MAINGEAR has never exactly shied away from over-specifying its gaming PCs, but now the company is hoping to pull in some custom attention with their new Super Stock options. Available on the MAINGEAR SHIFT, the new customizations will include overclocking the Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor up to 4.5GHz, together with specifying a 3-way SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 array with a total of 4.5GB of GDDR5 video memory.
There’s also liquid cooling, which can be paired with acoustic dampening if it’s still not quite quiet enough for you, and then there are various car-finish hand painted case color options (which you can see in the gallery below). They can be matched with interior LED lighting, if that’s to your taste.
The MAINGEAR SHIFT kicks off at $2,299, but as you might expect you can easily push that far, far higher by ticking a handful of options boxes. For instance, upgrading to the i7-980X Extreme adds $991.
Press Release:
MAINGEAR REVS UP THE SHIFT WITH SUPER STOCK OPTIONS
MAINGEAR launches Super Stock options on their award-winning SHIFT desktop with jaw-dropping performance features including an overclocked CPU, liquid cooling and auto custom paint options
Kenilworth, New Jersey – September 27, 2010 – MAINGEAR, an award-winning PC system builder offering custom desktops, notebooks, workstations and media centers, proves there is always room for more. Bolstering the SHIFT with new Super Stock performance and personalization options, MAINGEAR continues to pioneer the ever-changing horizon of extreme personal computing, by utilizing the best possible configurations with eye catching designs.
Every MAINGEAR Super Stock upgrade is hand-picked and specialty tuned to push the already award winning SHIFT desktop with improvements in performance and design choices built to give the best high-performance PC experience. With maxed out performance including liquid cooled overclocked CPU processor and 3-way SLI® that is perfected in an aesthetically unique designed chassis, this system will turn heads in performance and looks.
Uncompromising Performance: With MAINGEAR’s Redline™ CPU overclocking, PC enthusiasts will be able to enjoy fast and stable CPU performance with Intel® Core™ i7-980X Extreme Edition processor overclocked up to 4.5GHZ. Along with 3-way SLI® NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 480, totaling to 4.5GB GDDR5, performance and everyday users can enjoy vivid movies, 3D games, entertainment and even get some 3D CAD or rendering processed in the background with this combination of ultimate performance.
Custom Liquid Cooling Excellence: MAINGEAR’s Super Stock option will also offer LiquidX 2700 and 2900 Supercooler Package which is a highly tuned watercooling loop built from the best components available that is hand-cut and wrapped. It uses no-dye liquid, Koolance CPU-360 Waterblock with compression nozzles, and is shipped with the liquid coolant pre-filled. And, if that isn’t enough, MAINGEAR also offers Acoustic Dampening to further minimize any other potential noise.
Custom Paint Job: The Super Stock option package offers six high gloss custom paint colors, both painted interior and exterior that gives the SHIFT system a special uniqueness yet shows a familiarity that is still unmistakably MAINGEAR. The system is hand-painted using high quality auto paint in luxurious colors in such as Root Beer and Brandywine, you can mix and match nearly 200 different color combinations.
Super Stock Highlights:
MAINGEAR SHIFT exclusive patent pending* advanced vertical heat dissipation chassis with window
Nearly 200 color combinations for the interior and exterior of the chassis of professional car paint colors in colors to fall in love including: Brandywine, Cobalt Blue, Frost White, Organic Green, Root Beer and Burple
Internal LED lighting to match your interior and exterior colors
Redline™ CPU overclocking up to 4.5GHZ with the Intel® Core™ i7-980X Extreme Edition processor
MAINGEAR LiquidX 2700 and 2900 Supercooler Package, which is a hand-built, highly tuned watercooling loop
Front-mounted 3 drive hot swappable bays to make it easy to pull hard drives in and out
1.5KW Silverstone Strider Modular Industrial power supply
Performance chassis cooling upgrade fan to 180mm, 1300rpm, 150 cfm
· Acoustic Dampening to lower the overall system noise
· Unique Super Stock Out-of Box accessories including MAINGEAR branded t-shirt, toolkit, mousepad, and branded beanie hat
· Starting at price of SHIFT is $2,299
“The MAINGEAR SHIFT with Super Stock Options provides a unique and differentiated opportunity for overclockers to take advantage of the Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition – the world’s fastest, smartest PC processor. Intel’s world class manufacturing helps deliver industry-leading performance to allow PC Enthusiasts the ultimate gaming & media experience.” Chris Tobias – Director, Channel Desktop Marketing – Intel
“MAINGEAR is good at what they do, continually offers offering unique options and performance capabilities where it counts, which makes them one of the premier system integrators in the country,” said Ujesh Desai, vice president of GPU business at NVIDIA. “With NVIDIA three ® 3-way SLI NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 480s under the hood running in a 3-way SLI configuration, MAINGEAR customers , 4.5GB GDDR5 is designed to offer gamers can be assured of incredible scalability in their graphics performance and an awesome overall PC gaming experience, no matter their game of choice.”
“The MAINGEAR SHIFT with Super Stock options and Microsoft Windows 7 are representing a whole new generation of performance and personalized user experiences for hardcore gamers and PC enthusiasts alike.” said Eddie O’Brien, VP of Microsoft US OEM.
All of MAINGEAR products are supported with lifetime labor and phone support with one to three year hardware warranty.
ASUS has made its Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard official, after teasing us with the new Republic of Gamers ‘board back in May. Designed for use with AMD’s socket AM3 Phenom II, Athlon II or Sempron 100 series processors, the Crosshair IV Extreme has five PCI Express slots, Lucid HYDRALOGIX and – thanks to CrossLinx 3 – can pair up to four mixed NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards at any one time.
As you’d expect from a ROG board, there’s plenty of overclocking potential as well. ASUS allow you to remotely control the overclock using a Bluetooth cellphone, over USB from a connected notebook, or even from a new iPhone app called ROG iDirect.
Connectivity includes gigabit ethernet, two FireWire ports, four USB 3.0 ports, thirteen USB 2.0 ports and 8-channel audio, while there are six SATA 6Gb/s, two SATA 3Gb/s and two external SATA 3Gb/s ports. We’re waiting to hear back from ASUS as to what the ROG Crosshair IV Extreme might cost.
Press Release:
Crosshair IV Extreme Pushes AMD Performance with Multi-GPU CrossLinx 3 Technology Innovative features from ASUS Republic of Gamers Guarantee Better Performance through Overclocking
The new Crosshair IV Extreme from ASUS’ Republic of Gamers brand delivers compatibility with some of the fastest processors available through the AMD890FX chipset. It further ships with CrossLinx 3 technology, which enables multi-GPU usability with graphics cards from different vendors and generations. The new motherboard also comes with a slew of user-friendly overclocking features, including ROG Connect, RC Bluetooth and ROG iDirect.
Graphics Card Flexibility
With CrossLinx 3 technology, Crosshair IV Extreme users gain the ability to mix and match multiple graphics cards from both NVIDIA and ATI, including models of different GPU generations. This technology uses the Lucid HYDRALOGIX engine, which bridges various graphics cards to enable their simultaneous usage. By removing compatibility hurdles, CrossLinx 3 makes it possible to experiment with different configurations of graphics cards for maximum performance.
On Crosshair IV Extreme, a unique layout design features a total of five PCI Express expansion slots. Two provide dedicated native graphics card support for either a single GPU or two in CrossFire configuration. The additional three feature Lucid HYDRALOGIX and CrossLinx 3 technologies, which enable a mixture of graphics cards from different vendors and generations, with a total of four detectable and working at once. Users keen on tuning their system gain greater freedom to do so with the unprecedented five PCI Express slots, and the technology maintains optimized performance whether in single or multiple-GPU arrangements.
Revolutionary User Control
Crosshair IV Extreme continues ROG’s established tradition of extreme performance, bringing much needed hardcore overclocking capabilities to the AMD side of the market. It ships with a full range of performance features, starting with ROG Connect, which enables pure hardware-level tweaking through USB from a remote notebook PC.
RC Bluetooth accesses a host of board, memory and CPU overclocking parameters from any Bluetooth-enabled device, while ROG iDirect introduces PC tuning from iPhone. This adds convenience and style to overclocking, a practice that used to be exclusive and cumbersome to get into.
These features simplify overclocking without compromising results, so that any user, novice to hardcore, can tap the full potential of Crosshair IV Extreme and related hardware with minimum difficulty and for maximum gain. All have been designed with direct feedback from the PC performance community taken into consideration.
When it comes to hardcore PC gamers, they know that they’ve got plenty of options out there to choose from. Manufacturers make a killing off offering the latest and greatest in the market. And, not to be out-done, CyberPower has announced today that they’re introducing Fang Series Evo enhancements to their gaming PCs. Four different PCs are getting the upgrades, making them some of the most noteworthy gaming PCs out there right now.
Going from one model to the next, the Cobra features an over-clocked Intel Core i7 processor, clocked at 3.84GHz. It also has 6GB of DDR3 RAM, 1TB SATA II, 7,200RPM hard drive, and one NVIDIA GTX 470 graphics card. There’s a 22X DVD burner in there, too. The Viper gaming PC has an over-clocked Core i7 processor which runs at 3.37GHz. It has 6G of DDR3 RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. It also has a 1TB hard drive and 22X DVD burner. The Rattler features an over-clocked Intel Core i7, clocked at 3.22GHz and featuring 4GB of RAM. There’s a 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5670 inside the tower as well. Again, there’s that 1TB hard drive and 22X DVD burner.
The Black Mamba takes the cake, though, with its Core i7-980X processor, over-clocked to reach 4.33GHz. There’s 12GB of DDR3 RAM, and NVIDIA’s GTX 480 graphics card, which are liquid cooled. There’s a pair of 64GB SSD drives, and a 2TB hard drive. Instead of the DVD burner, it has a 4x Blu-ray drive, which is paired with a DVD burner. Features for all of them equal Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, USB 3.0 ports, and 6Gbps SATA interface. You can start configuring your models starting at $999, right now.
Apple’s Mac Pro is a beast of a machine, and more so when you overclock it, but the fan noise you end up with can be pretty intrusive. The guys over at Asetek decided to see what they could do with their liquid-cooling components, taking a 2008 dual-CPU 2.8GHz Mac Pro – overclocked to 3.16GHz – with custom cooling and comparing it to a newer, stock 3.2GHz air-cooled model straight from Apple.
Video demo after the cut
The end result? A quieter machine with comparable performance – as you can see in the video demo below – but putting out only 37.5 dB of noise, versus the 50 dB from the stock Mac Pro. Both machines were running at 47-degrees centigrade, despite the overclocking of the liquid-cooled model (which uses a 240mm radiator).
Now for the bad news. While we can think of plenty Mac Pro users who would jump at the chance to quieten their computer while boosting performance, Asetek tells us this is a custom job and isn’t available for purchase. That’s because of the socket 771 chip used in this particular Mac Pro; however, the new models use socket 1366 chips, and so you could feasibly hack together a few Corsair Hydro Series coolers to do something similar. No straightforward boxed offering, then, so it’s time to start pestering Apple to offer factory-fit liquid-cooling options.
Back when NVIDIA made its GeForce GTX 460 official in mid-July, we suspected we might see some slightly more outlandish production models after OEMs had a little time with the Fermi GPU. Onda has delivered just that with their GeForce GTX 460 ES, an overclocked version with dual fans compared to the reference design’s single spinner, and Expreview managed to get their hands on a sample.
The dual 80mm fans and triple set of copper heatpipes – as well as all the cooling fins – certainly add up to a distinctive and thick video card. It sounds like the reference boards will be getting larger, too; Onda apparently struggled to get their chosen ten SMD inductors to fit.
Memory is 1GB of Samsung GDDR5, and there are VGA, DVI and HDMI connectors to choose between. This is still a prototype board, according to Onda, and as such will see some physical changes by the time it reaches the market (price and date unknown), but Expreview are still planning to put it through its paces in benchmarking; we’ll let you know as soon as that happens.
Whoa! After breaking the 1GHz barrier just three weeks ago, dauntless modder unixpsycho is back with yet another insane hack for the aging Palm Pre. What’s new? Why, this “SR71 Blackbird” custom kernel, which simply pushes the poor little OMAP3430 processor up to 1.2GHz — that’s twice the original clock speed, just so you know. As glamorous as it sounds, potential users are triple-warned about this mod potentially failing the webOS device in one way or another, despite the built-in speed-scaling mechanism to cap the device at 55 degrees Celsius (131 in Fahrenheit). And needless to say, don’t expect your stock battery to hold up for more than a few blinks once implemented. Good luck, pilgrims.
Apparently, CyberPower wanted to try their hand at the limelight today, because after they just went ahead and announced a couple pieces of hardware for your 3D gaming needs, they’ve also declared that they’re going to start offering up unlocked Intel Core processors as well.
Both of the new offerings put up the Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors from the K Series. CyberPower is all set to start ordering the Intel Core i7-875K and Core i5-655 for their Gamer Xtreme series of desktop PCs. You also have a choice of your graphics, with the ability to go with the NVIDIA GTX or ATI 5800 cards.
The best news of the day, though, is the fact that CyberPower didn’t go the obvious way that many probably figured they would, and hike up the prices to make the whole thing seem ridiculous. Instead, you can pick up a base model with these features starting at just $699. That means you can take the time to build up your machine, along with the fact you can overclock them at your own leisure.
Press Release:
CyberPower Inc. has announced the new Intel “K” series processors that feature Intel’s advanced Turbo Boost technology and an unlocked CPU multiplier. CyberPower will feature these new K series processors in its Gamer Xtreme series of desktop PCs.
CyberPower Gamer Xtreme with Intel Series K Unlocked CPU
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PR Log (Press Release) – Jun 01, 2010 – BALDWIN PARK, CA – CyberPower Inc., www.cyberpowerpc.com wants you to unlock and unleash your desktop gaming power when it today announces the new Intel “K” series processors that feature Intel’s advanced Turbo Boost technology and an unlocked CPU multiplier. Engineered for the ultimate overclocker, the K series processors allow you to push the power above and beyond.
CyberPower will feature these new K series processors in its Gamer Xtreme series of desktop PCs to give gaming enthusiasts power, performance, and flexibility to their computing experience. When combined with any NVIDIA GTX Series and/or ATI 5800 Series video cards, CyberPower gives you the processing and graphics power to rip apart every single game and dominate the opposition.
“We are excited that CyberPower will feature the new Intel(r) Core(tm) i7-875K and Intel(r) Core(tm) i5-655 processors in its Gamer Xtreme series of desktop PCs. These new processors offer many advanced features to help PC enthusiasts get the most out of their overclocking experience,” said Eric Thompson, Director of NA Channels, Intel Corporation.
The starting price for a CyberPower system based on these new CPUs will be $699. The unlocked Gamer Xtreme series can be optionally factory overclocked by CyberPower. You can also customize your unlocked gaming system with CyberPower’s Advanced Hydro Liquid Cooling with an additional number of SSD, extreme performance memory, and other peripheral components options at the company website.
All systems are pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Operating System to enhance your gaming and multimedia experience. All CyberPower computer systems come with a 3-year limited warranty and free lifetime phone support.
Additionally, to celebrate the launch of the K series processors, CyberPower has teamed up with Intel to give away brand new systems based on the new processors. For more information, please visit CyberPower’s Facebook page.
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About CyberPower Inc.
CyberPower Inc. www.cyberpowerpc.com was founded in 1998 and has emerged as one of the leading custom computer system manufacturers. Headquartered in Baldwin Park in Southern California, CyberPower manufactures and distributes a complete line of custom built Gaming Desktops, Gaming notebooks and high performance workstations to meet the unique needs of gamers, businesses, government agencies, educational institutions and other end-users. For more information contact: Sales (800) 707-0393; Email cyberpower@cyberpowerpc.com.
MAINGEAR has announced a new range of desktop PCs based on Intel’s 2nd-gen Core 2011 processors, including overclocked models ramping CPU speeds up to 5GHz. The updated SHIFT, F131, VYBE and X-CUBE systems can each be outfitted with a choice of Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, and those supporting Intel’s Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 can be pre-overclocked by MAINGEAR.
