Maingear Launches MG-1 Prebuilt Gaming PCs Rocking RTX 50 GPUs

Maingear has once again retooled its sleek and well-crafted MG-1 desktop gaming PC lineup (see our review of a 2023 MG-1 config to see just how well put together these boutique machines are), this time with the latest generation CPU hardware from AMD and Intel, alongside NVIDIA's Blackwell-based GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs.

It's the latter bit that makes these particularly interesting machines. It's more fun plucking your eyebrows out one-by-one than it is trying to hunt down a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card in stock, which is an option on these preconfigured desktops. Head to Best Buy, for example, and you'll find 41 product listing for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 Ti combined. Out of those, just three SKUs are in stock, all of which are custom GeForce RTX 5080 models (the least expensive being $1,299.99).

The reality is, most ...