You're bored one night surfing the Internet and you decide to do a mock build of your dream PC. Whether through your favorite e-tailer or a boutique system builder, you find yourself piecing together the ultimate powerhouse. Price is not a concern -- you want the baddest system your imaginary money can buy. Once complete, you marvel at the resulting monstrosity and then come crashing back to reality when you see the price tag. We've all "been there, done that.

The Shift is Maingear's highest performing consumer desktop system to date, featuring a custom-built chassis from SilverStone. Inside is a six-core Intel Core iX Extreme CPU overclocked to 4.

The Maingear Shift chassis features a steel skeleton with aluminum external pieces. Steel keeps the system rigid while aluminum keeps the weight at a somewhat respectable level.

Even so, the system has a shipping weight of 70 pounds. The chassis is designed around Maingear's "Advanced Vertical Head Dissipation" philosophy, where cool air is brought in from the bottom of the system and directed over the three video cards and out the top of the chassis. Basic science dictates that hot air rises, you know.

Because of this design element, the hardware in the system has been rotated degrees. The system arrived double boxed in a large Maingear package that makes removing the computer very easy. Once unpacked, we find the Shift PC tower, spare modular PSU cables, extra system cables, three HDMI cables, a Maingear mousepad, and a power cable. There's also a binder that details everything about your new system, including a point inspection checklist, benchmark results and it's even signed by the person who built your computer.

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