Maingear's Axess HD Gamer PC looks to blow your mind, empty your wallet

by Ross Miller posted Jun 19th 2009 at 4:44AM

Make no bones about, Maingear's new Axess HD Gamer (and by merit of its namesake, HTPC, too) is nothing if not a powerhouse for those wanting to pay an arm and a leg for a souped up gaming experience. You want specs? At its best, we're looking at an Intel Core i7 on a X58 chipset, dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT in SLI, up to 12GB of DDR3 RAM, Blu-ray, Windows Vista / Media Center, and two 3.5-inch storage bays supporting 320GB SSD or 2TB HDD. If you need more nerd cred, ghost of vaporware past Phantom Lapboard serves as one of the bundled input devices, as does the NVIDIA GeForce 3D vision kit and a 22-inch Samsung LCD. Starting price is $1,799, but if you wanna go for broke -- and whether not you can, you probably want to -- top configurations can run you well over $5,000.

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Heavytoka @ Jun 19th 2009 3:24PM

Ok, I'm Sold!

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oon2ooo @ Jun 19th 2009 6:36PM

Where did they get their Omaura cases and what appears to be the functioning OLED display now that the company went under? Did they buy them out of stock or has someone picked up the rights to production on these guys now??? I was thinking of building a new HTPC in a few months and really wanted that case.

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