Excellent expansion potential, Good gaming performance
No Blu-ray drive, Core i5 CPU in a Core i7-priced package
This overclocked Core i5 desktop is a very solid gaming rig with major expansion potential, but comparably priced models do offer quad-core CPUs and more features. ...
First off, the good: Maingear builds quality systems without bloatware or clogged installations, ships them well, and all evidence shows they support them 100%. Their website is easy to order from, overclocking is "free" and covered under warranty, an...
Outstanding gaming performance; flawless, attractive design; more aggressive overclocking than the competition.
Support Web site could use some beefing up; minor drop-off in Quake 4 at higher resolutions.
Maingears F131 SLI takes it to the high-end PC competition, earning itself an Editors Choice in the process. Without having the full picture of DirectX 10 performance, youre potentially taking a risk buying a high-end gaming PC now. But if you need ...
Abstract: Hoo-hoo! That’s an exact recreation of the noise we made when opening the box containing Maingear’s F131 desktop rig. But “rig” might be too generic a description for the bright-blue machine; “behemoth” seems more appropriate. For in every direction—p...
Published: 2010-09-15, Author: Tim , review by: tweaktown.com
We have become aware of a discrepancy in our VGA focused synthetic and gaming test results in this review and as such we have temporarily pulled these benchmark results offline to investigate the anomalies of these test results. We sincerely apolog...
