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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 classic Super Stock colors such as Grabber Blue and Big Bad Orange, 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 with such Baron Red, Grabber Blue, Frost White, JadeFire Green, Big Bad Orange and Electric Purple

• Internal LED lighting to match your 6 different 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 Hot swappable bays to make it super easy for you 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, beanie hat

BOLD DESIGN.

SHIFT is designed with strength and style in mind. That means a sublime blend of a steel skeleton for strength (up to 40% stronger than 100% aluminum enclosures), and beautiful brushed aluminum exterior to reduce weight and increase heat dissipation. SHIFT has confident yet refined lines, and exudes power and authority. Ultimately this makes the SHIFT a visually stunning piece of hardware, and conveys a look unlike any other PC on the market. This completes the SHIFT's innovative 90 degree design.

Motherboard and Chassis Form Factor
• ATX, E-ATX Motherboard, Full-Tower Chassis
• Optional Side Panel Window
• Optional Exterior and Interior Automotive Paint jobs s


Power Supply
• 750 Watt Multi-GPU Fully Modular Power Supply
• 1000 Watt Multi-GPU Fully Modular Power Supply
• 1200 Watt Multi-GPU Fully Modular Power Supply
• 1500 Watt Multi-GPU Fully Modular Power Supply

Motherboard
• Asus Rampage III Extreme (Intel X58 Express Chipset – Super Stock)

Processor Options

• Intel® Core™ i7 930 (2.8GHz, 8MB Cache)
• Intel® Core™ i7 950 (3.06GHz, 8MB Cache)
• Intel® Core™ i7 960 (3.2GHz, 8MB Cache)
• Intel® Core™ i7 980x Extreme (3.33GHz, 12MB Cache)

Processor Cooling
• MAINGEAR LiquidX 1700 Supercooler
• MAINGEAR LiquidX 2700 Supercooler
• MAINGEAR LiquidX 2900 Supercooler

Memory Options

• 6GB, 12GB, and 24GB DDR3-1600MHz
• 6GB and 12GB DDR3-2000MHz

Single Video Card Options
• AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5
• AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5
• AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
• AMD Radeon HD 5870 2GB GDDR5 Eyefinity 6
• AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB GDDR5
• Asus Ares Dual 5870 4GB GDDR5 Limited Edition
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB GDDR5
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1GB GDDR5
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1GB GDDR5



Crossfire and SLI Video Card Options
• Dual AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5
• Dual AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5
• Dual AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
• Dual AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB GDDR5
• Triple AMD Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
• Dual Asus Ares Dual 5870 4GB GDDR5 Limited Edition
• Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB GDDR5
• Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1GB GDDR5
• Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1GB GDDR5
• Triple NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1GB GDDR5

Optical Drive Options

• 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW)
• Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo
• Blu-ray Disc (BD) Burner

Dual Optical Disc Drive Options
• Dual Drives: Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo (BD-ROM; DVD/CD Burner))
• Dual Drives: Blu-ray Disc (BD) Burner (Writes to DVD/CD/BD)


Operating system options

• Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
• Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-Bit
• Genuine Windows® 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

audio options
• Internal High-Definition 7.1 Audio (Standard)
• Asus Xonar Discrete Audio (Optional)

network adapters
• Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet NIC (Standard)
• Killer Xeno Pro NIC (Optional)

wireless connectivity

• Internal Wireless Bluetooth® 2.1+ Enhanced Data Rate (Super Stock Only)
• Internal 802.11 a/b/g/Draft-n Wireless LAN (Optional)

Top i/o ports
• (2x) High-Speed USB 2.0
• (1x) Firewire IEEE 1394
• (1x) Microphone In
• (1x) Headphone/Speaker Out
• Multi-format USB Card Reader

Rear I/o ports
• (1x ) eSATA
• (1x ) PS/2
• (1x) RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet
• (7x) High-Speed USB 2.0
• (2x) SuperSpeed USB 3.0
• (1x) Firewire IEEE 1394
• (1x) ROG Connect On/Off Switch
• (1x) Clr CMOS Switch
• 8-channel Audio I/O
• (1x) SPDIF Digital Output (TOSLINK)

Supported Storage options
• Up to 6 3.5” Storage Drives (12 2.5” SSD by request)
• 7,200RPM Hard Drives - 640GB, 750GB, 1TB, 2TB
• 10,000RPM Hard Drives – 600GB
• Solid State Drive Technology – 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB
• Supporting RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, and RAID 5 Storage Configurations

System dimensions
• 24” - Height
• 21.5” – Depth
• 8.6” – Width

Average Weight – 60 lbs

Dec. 13, 2010
shift: digital trends editor's choice
“Unstoppable performance, Innovative vertical airflow design, Solid, attractive and unique case, White-glove packaging, assembly quality and service, Reliable despite white-knuckle overclocking”

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Oct. 11, 2010
shift: pc gamer editor's choice award
“‘Beautiful inside and out and a bruiser in the benchmarks...Even though virtually all new high-end PCs outrun the previous generation, the Maingear Shift is a surprisingly distant leap ahead – easily equipped for even Nvidia’s triple-display 3d Vision Sur-round, if you really want to go nuts’”

July 15, 2010
Shift: g4tv's attack of the show review
“PC gaming means taking video games to the extreme, which means Maingear's Shift Extreme may be the perfect fit. Kevin Pereira and Alison Haislip review this gaming PC with its redesigned case, Intel Hexa-core processor, NVIDIA GTX 480 video cards and up to 24 GB of RAM, which starts at $2,400.”

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May 20, 2010
Shift: hot hardware editors' choice
“We'd definitely recommend the SHIFT to any of our enthusiast readers looking for a top-notch system, though we'd opt for one at default clock speeds. At stock speeds, the SHIFT is a fantastic blend of speed, low temperatures, and quieter-than-normal operation (particularly if you were to opt for video cards other than the loudish GTX 480s).”

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May 4, 2010
Shift: maximum pc kickass! award
“So we were pretty impressed to crack open Maingear’s new Shift system and find three GTX 480 boards running in tri-SLI. That the company could rate such bounty is testament to its street cred among power users.

The Shift isn’t just about the Fermi cards, though. Maingear also managed to get that other big star of the PC world in for the ride: Intel’s Core i7-980X, which, with help from the Acetek water cooler, Maingear pushes from the stock 3.33GHz to 4.2GHz. ”


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March 11, 2010
Shift: PC Mag Editors’ Choice
“The Maingear Shift both promises and delivers a more mature gaming experience. That's not to say it's solely for Mature-audience games, rather it's the hardcore gamer's PC for when he's older

Speedy on benchmark tests. Intelligent packaging. Intelligent thermal design. Easy-to-upgrade hard drive bays. Uncluttered exposed surfaces. Quiet during normal operations.”


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Jan 11, 2010
Shift: pc world #1 power desktop, top 10 products.
“Maingear’s Shift takes a number of dramatic steps forward in the world of high-performance computing. From its tricked-out load-out, to its dominating graphics performance, to its interior and exterior that are as pretty as they are easily accessible, it’s hard to find much fault with this well-designed system. .”

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MAINGEAR™ Service

While we've solved a vast majority of PCs, hardware, and software issues over the years, there will always be a few inevitable setbacks we face. Until we figure out how to build a perpetual sustaining machine, consumer electronics will have a shelf life. Sometimes, bad batches of components make it through the line and end up in our hands. It may seem they function perfectly at the moment, but their life span is unpredictably short. And let's face it, when your system suffers problems, you will feel frustrated and helpless. That's how MAINGEAR stands apart from other companies. We work closely with vendors to catch these anomalies, often times with customer feedback, and get the updated firmware or replacements needed get our systems running at their expected performance as quickly as possible. We appreciate you beyond just a customer and stand behind the quality product we have designed. There's a basic tenet of project management we adhere to: design quality in so you don't have to inspect it later. All of our products are well thought out, well researched, well tested, and leave our facilities with confidence, and if this downtime occurs with your machine, just know that we will not abandon you.

These are the promises we make to you.

1. You will never speak to anyone that works on commission. And those who you do speak to about a purchase will have built systems for us, or will be current technicians, engineers, and support personnel. You'll never get better advice than from these employees.

2. You will never be oversold. If we think you may be spending more money than you should for your needs, we'll advise you of ways to save money. Conversely, if we think you may not have configured a PC for the performance you're looking for, we'll let you know about that, too. But we'll never pressure you.

3. For the first 30 days of ownership, we will pay 2-way shipping of your system should a problem arise.

4. You will never have to pay for phone support or labor for the lifetime of the system. There are actually companies that make you pay for this after 90 days.

5. At our discretion, we'll engage a 3rd party service to provide on-site service at no additional cost.

6. We'll always replace any failed components in your PC with something that is at least equal in performance and features if we are no longer able to acquire the original part.

7. At your request, we will employ our virtual on-site, hardware-based remote diagnostic technology to fix any quirky software issues you may have. And we'll record it if you wish to reference it later, or to ensure your privacy concerns. This perfect blend of pre- and post- sales support and service make up MAINGEAR™ SERVICE. It's the foundation of our success and the key to our future growth. We feel it's important to make this information front and center.