Gadgetory

hi I'm rich brown senior editor for cnet today we're going to take a look at the editors choice winning main gear f1 31 so this high end gaming PC from boutique vendor main gears one of the more exciting gaming systems we've seen in a while this particular config costs about 3,000 bucks but what I like most about the system is its case its format is about as small as that of a small form factor pc smaller even in some cases but also is able to accommodate about as much hardware as we expect from a standard mid tower now you can see in the front it's got a nice clean design there's not a lot going on up here there's a slot loading DVD Drive that's handy of course but if you look all around the system you'll see that the sleek design of the front extends all around it so the reason this system is so clean all the way around is because of the motherboard design on the inside so if we take over this top panel pop up the side you can see this is a really unique design and no other pc vendor that we know if he's using this case based on the way the two graphics cards are oriented here you can see that the ports go up to the top of the system we've certainly seen that from other vendors but not in a system that's this small and the fact that it can contain two dual wide full-length graphics cards says that this system really does have a lot of power despite its small design so for its specs this is an Ivy Bridge based PC comes with a core i7 3770k CPU and it's actually overclocked and it's one of the faster performing cpus we've seen out there but most exciting is the two graphics cards it's a pair of geforce gtx 680 cards brand new from nvidia to the highest at cards in the market right now and this system can play pretty much any title out there at full resolution on a single monitor so this is a full tilt gaming PC in it has some of the fastest gaming performance we've ever seen but almost as remarkable is the hardware that main gear is cramming in this system up here there's a water-cooling rig now behind this fan there's two sticks of memory you can add two more here you've got the DVD Drive and here's the big six 60 watt power supply so what we haven't seen it is a hard drives and that's because they're actually situated on the other side of the system just pop off that side panel and you can see the system has one two terabyte drive here a single 60 gigabytes solid-state drive here for caching and fast operating system loading so let's room for two other full-sized mechanical hard drives this one in particular is cool because you can just pop a hard drive in from the top it's hot swappable it's a really convenient feature if you end up swapping drives in and out so with the motherboard going this way again the ports are on the top of the system if we tilt it forward you can see them talking about so there's two graphics cards there so that gives you four DVI outs as well as a pair of hdmi and displayport outputs for other inputs you get 7.1 analog audio optical audio output six USB three jacks a couple of the USB 2 s as well as a few standard USB and esata ports the three thousand dollar price i will put the system out of reach for most gamers still this is probably the fastest gaming desktop we've ever seen and for that I have to recommend it if you have the means farm rich brown this is the main gear f 131