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Built like a tank, purrs like a kitten

The Quantum SHIFT is based on our award winning, innovating SHIFT chassis. Winner of a CES 2011 Design and Innovations award, the Quantum SHIFT turns the industry on its head, literally, with its vertical heat stack design.

Workflow, not workarounds

MAINGEAR’s powerhouse Quantum SHIFT PC workstations step up the standard by offering robust support for Adobe CS5.5. Designed to enhance your workflow instead of requiring workarounds, the Quantum SHIFT is a graphic and video editing pc and content creation powerhouse. With support for XML, EDL, and OMF import/export and networked storage, collaboration between editors and 3rd party post production houses is seamless with SHIFT PC workstations. And with a wide selection of hardware options, the Quantum SHIFT supports the hardware necessary to build the 4K, HD, or DV video editing pc that fits your environment, tapeless or not.. Whether you work with tape or are all tapeless, the Quantum SHIFT with Adobe CS5.5 can be built to suit your existing infrastructure, not force you to reinvest in new equipment.

Integrated, not applicated

The Quantum SHIFT with Adobe CS5.5 has broad native support for RED footage and support for RED Rocket, Mystermium X, and the latest Color Science and Firmware for RED ONE cameras. Output and view full 10-bit color without the need for separate video playback hardware with certain NVIDIA Quadro cards. The Quantum SHIFT with Adobe CS5.5 also supports ASIO multichannel audio cards, still-image files in nearly any major format, native DPX file import, and multi-cam. And of course, there’s support for all major media types. All without 3rd party app plug-ins.

NVIDIA® QUADRO® BY PNY PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS FOR ADOBE® CS5

Unlock the power of Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 software with NVIDIA® Quadro® by PNY and transform your computer into a high-end production system. Deliver blazing fast performance and accelerate your complete production workflow with NVIDIA Quadro by PNY professional graphics solutions. Adobe Premiere Pro® CS5 and the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine enable amazingly fluid real-time video editing fueled by the following NVIDIA Quadro by PNY professional graphics boards:





NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 by PNY
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 by PNY
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 by PNY





Choose a PNY professional graphics board solution that's right for your Adobe Creative Suite 5 projects.

EPiC 180 x2 closed-loop water cooling

Added to the mix is our exclusive EPIC 180 X2 closed-loop, maintenance-free, 50,000 hour watercooling solution. Able to dissipate up to 900 watts of heat from two processors that don’t exceed 140 watts a piece, the EPIC 180 X2 was built to deliver cooling performance in demanding environments, and at a sound level below that of any major multi-processor platform on the market.


The Quantum SHIFT custom workstation features support for industry standard hardware, and with the muscle from Intel in uni- or multi-CPU configurations, the Quantum SHIFT workstation also features the widest variety of NVIDIA Quadro solutions available. Supporting up to 12 SSD or 6 mechanical hard drives and the fastest in hardware RAID solutions, you can be sure that even uncompressed capture and editing won’t slow a Quantum SHIFT custom Adobe workstation down.