Maingear Rush Artist Series Review

The imaginable of buying a high-end gaming PC similar the Maingear Rush is ever a fraught one. After all, portion determination are dozens of companies similar Maingear that’ll enactment your rig unneurotic for a fee, there’s ever the anticipation of gathering it yourself looming implicit the full affair. I went connected Maingear’s website to terms retired the portion it sent for review, and it would outgo an eye-watering $7,032 to buy. That’s a precocious terms to wage for a PC that would different outgo astir $5,000 to enactment together, truthful what is that other $2,000 getting you?

For experienced PC builders, not overmuch different than a truly beauteous build. However, for anyone that shudders astatine the imaginable of opening their PC and repairing oregon replacing components, the beingness tech enactment conscionable mightiness beryllium worthy the terms of entry.

Design and Features

Since we’re talking astir a PC that costs upwards of 7 grand, there’s a definite level of opulence you should expect. And, with its airbrushed lawsuit and fantabulous cablegram management, the Maingear Rush perfectly delivers. This gaming PC is simply a mode to get a TikTok-ready gaming setup without having to spell done the headache of routing the cables yourself.

The physique Maingear sent successful for reappraisal has these gorgeous grey braided cablegram extensions for the motherboard, GPU and CPU powerfulness connections, which means adjacent the fewer cables that are disposable mostly inactive acceptable the aesthetics of the wide rig. There are a fewer much cables that you tin see, particularly if you popular disconnected the solid broadside sheet to instrumentality a look astatine the innards, but these are tiny capable that they’re not noticeable. After all, 1 of the large selling points is that Maingear uses off-the-shelf components, truthful determination are tiny instrumentality headers and USB connections that request to beryllium plugged successful connected the top-side of the motherboard.

Maingear has besides recovered a mode to physique this PC successful specified a mode that it could vessel the strategy retired without stuffing it afloat of foam. I’ve reviewed dozens of gaming PCs implicit the years, and astir each azygous 1 has had a clump of garbage shoved into the PC to halt the components from shifting – this 1 doesn’t. This is acknowledgment mostly to the amazingly robust mounting solution for the graphics card. Now, the Maingear Rush is utilizing an RTX 5090 Founders Edition, and I’ve spent a batch of clip with that paper and cognize however dense it is – and yet I was capable to unpack this instrumentality without it having shifted astatine all.

That mounting solution besides helps guarantee that you won’t acquisition immoderate graphics paper sag implicit the years, which could person led to degraded show oregon adjacent a dormant graphics card.

However, wherever successful the past Maingear was known for creating customized PC cases, the Rush seems to beryllium mostly based disconnected of the fantabulous Lian Li O11 Dynamic Evo XL. I haven’t been capable to corroborate whether oregon not this is the aforesaid case, but it’s not similar it’d beryllium a atrocious happening aft all. This lawsuit allows you to easy instrumentality disconnected immoderate of the panels – front, side, back, etc. – to easy upgrade oregon work the machine. You tin adjacent popular disconnected the backmost sheet to easy entree the powerfulness supply, which is side-mounted, and you get to spot the neat cablegram absorption erstwhile you do.

The bottommost of the beforehand sheet has 2 USB-A ports, a azygous USB-C port, on with a 3.5mm audio jack. I privation determination were much USB-A ports, arsenic I perpetually person to swap betwixt dongles depending connected what I’m doing astatine the time. However, due to the fact that this PC features the ASRock Phantom Gaming X870E Nova Wifi, determination are plentifulness of USB ports astir the back.

Also connected the beforehand of the case, but adjacent the apical of the PC, you’ll find the singular front-facing fastener connected the rig, which is of people the powerfulness button. There are much buttons close astir the corner, labeled with letters M, C, and B. However, successful the period I’ve spent with the Rush, I inactive haven’t figured retired what they bash – thing happens erstwhile I property them, that’s for sure.

Then, supra these functionless letter-buttons, you’ll find the reset button. And, I mean, it’s perfectly bully that there’s a reset fastener among the beforehand sheet buttons, but depending connected however you person this PC situated connected your desk, and whether oregon not you hindrance thing to the different buttons just beneath it, I could wholly spot you reaching astir to deed thing other and rebooting your system. Not the extremity of the world, to beryllium sure, but could beryllium ace annoying if you were successful the mediate of something.

Why Spend So Much?

Just similar the Origin Millennium I reviewed earlier this year, the Maingear Rush is an highly costly PC. While the rig starts astatine $2,026, that’ll get you a laughable setup with a Ryzen 5 9600X, an RTX 5050 and 16GB of RAM, paired with a 1TB SSD. Now, I cognize graphics cards are getting much costly these days, but that terms for that PC is questionable astatine best. At the high-end though, we commencement getting into the territory of a luxury merchandise that really delivers a luxurious experience.

The Maingear Rush I was sent for reappraisal volition acceptable you backmost $7,032. That gets you an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, an RTX 5090 Founders Edition, 48GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. I priced that configuration retired connected PCPartPicker and astatine the clip of writing, that aforesaid configuration would outgo astir $4800. That means you’re paying $2,300 for Maingear to assemble this PC for you.

That’s a ample further terms tag, nary substance however admittedly gorgeous this gaming PC is. But the existent prima of the amusement has to bash with the lawsuit support. Now, this is simply a hard happening for maine to test, due to the fact that aft penning this, this PC is getting shipped backmost to Maingear, truthful I won’t person the accidental for things to spell wrong. However, Maingear talks a large game, offering beingness escaped tech support, on with covering the labour costs for immoderate repair the PC needs implicit its lifetime, connected apical of a 1 twelvemonth warranty.

Whether oregon not that’s worthy the other terms depends wholly connected what you’re looking for. I’m a hardware nerd that jumps astatine the accidental to hole my friends’ computers, truthful the thought of paying $2300 other conscionable to person idiosyncratic physique the strategy with the accidental that I’ll request assistance sometime successful the future? Probably not worthy it.

However, for a batch of radical that privation a premium gaming PC without putting successful the clip to physique the happening oregon having to interest astir servicing it successful the future, that’s an appealing connection – peculiarly if the beingness portion really plays out. Either way, the Maingear Rush is decidedly a luxury merchandise that you should look astatine similar an investment. You tin get the aforesaid hardware elsewhere overmuch cheaper, but it mightiness not person the aforesaid level of method enactment successful the aboriginal – particularly if you physique it yourself.

Performance

Of course, with an RTX 5090 and a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, determination isn’t overmuch that this Maingear Rush can’t do. This is an implicit behemoth of a gaming PC, and with a 1650W powerfulness proviso there’s country to propulsion it adjacent further if you’re comfy overclocking your graphics card.

Throughout our trial suite, though, I noticed that the RTX 5090 successful this instrumentality underperformed the 5090 successful my trial rig by a bit, particularly successful 3DMark. In Speed Way, for instance, the Maingear Rush managed a people of 13,563, underperforming the aforesaid paper by astir 6%. Likewise, successful Cyberpunk 2077, the Maingear rig manages 121 fps, compared to 131 fps with the aforesaid settings from my trial bench.

There is ever going to beryllium immoderate variance betwixt antithetic graphics cards, adjacent erstwhile they’re utilizing the aforesaid GPU. This apt has much to bash with the silicon lottery than Maingear’s assembly, arsenic the instrumentality wasn’t throttling oregon anything. Still, Maingear perfectly could person overclocked the strategy to get it moving a spot faster.

But adjacent with immoderate unusual show numbers, the Maingear Rush is inactive much than susceptible of playing immoderate crippled I propulsion astatine it. I’ve been utilizing this arsenic my main PC for astir a month, and didn’t really announcement the show differential without staring astatine examination data.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra