- Hi, this is Mike Morgan with Microsoft.
I'm here with Maingear, and this is Wallace Santos.
Wallace, tell me a little bit about Main gear,
and your company, and what you do.
- Thanks for having us, Mike.
So, I'm with Maingear computers,
Wallace Santos, CEO and Founder of the company.
We make these amazing PCs,
so think of us as the Ferrari of PCs,
and we're here to show you some really cool stuff.
- Great.
Well, I know we're standing next to this great looking
small-form factor water cool device.
Tell us a little bit about this device
and your partnership with HP.
- Yeah sure, so this is the Omen X,
and this is a collaboration between Main gear and HP.
HP came to us about over a year ago
and they wanted to reinvigorate their Omen gaming line.
They wanted for the line to authentic, hence Maingear.
Think of this as AMG and Mercedes,
we're the AMG in this story.
We're able to do things that HP's supply chain cannot.
This is the Omen x, Maingear edition,
and it's Maingear on the inside
and HP design on the outside.
So we're able to offer the Omen
with this really fancy hardline liquid cooling system.
Which is absolutely beautiful as you can see.
And it is also really, really efficient.
We have a radiator up here and we have a radiator back here.
There is a tri-chamber design here,
where all the components are on this side,
power supply's on the bottom, isolated from everything else,
and the hard drives are also isolated from everything else.
- That's awesome. - And it's--
- It's beautiful, it really is a beautiful design.
- And it's crazy, you know, it's just different, right?
So it's like an art piece.
- That's awesome,
I understand you also announced
your own new machine as well, called the F131.
- Yes.
- So can you tell us a little bit about that as well?
- Let's walk right on over here.
Today we're unveiling the new F131,
and the F131 is our interpretation of the the perfect PC.
And when I say that, I mean it.
In terms of the size, in terms of the cooling,
the performance: a PC with no compromises.
If you look here, it is a mid tower
so it's a slimmer mid tower,
because we're able to shift the video cards
on the side like this and we're able
to slim that data sheet down.
It has a beautiful brushed exterior aluminum finish,
it has server-grade steel construction, so it's very rigid.
And it has a really unique liquid cooling system
that we call APEX.
We'll go over the details on APEX when we move over there.
- One thing I did notice was form factor.
I mean it is radically skinnier
than most gaming PCs that I've seen.
And I think this really will show well,
it makes me want to bring that machine
from underneath my desk, to now on top of my desk,
and now I have the space to do so.
At least, that's how I feel about it.
- And that, actually, was part of the discussion.
When we sat down to design our next generation gaming PC,
we discussed that, we said,
"Look, should we design a monster PC
"that you would essentially put underneath your desk,
"or should we design a really small PC
"that you would compromise with performance a bit?"
In our case, we took basically no compromises.
You still have SLI,
you can still put a Core i9 processor, 18 Core in here.
And we have enough radiator real estate
to cool everything, quietly.
It's not a noisy PC whatsoever,
you guys can't hear it there in the camera,
but it doesn't make any noise.
- I can't hear it at all, actually.
- Yeah, and part of the F131 is the story of customization
and really making the PC for you.
Everything, from the color of the liquid
to the colors of the power supply sleeves,
it's customizable by you,
and of course the components inside as well.
And with the F131, we're actually introducing
something called MARC, MARC II.
In 2007 we introduced MARK I,
which was a laser etching that we offered on our systems,
and now we're applying the artwork with full detail.
Essentially think of a game character,
this is just an example here,
think of a company logo,
or even a picture of you on the side of the system.
(Wallace chuckles) Which would be really cool.
- That might be a little arrogant,
but I love the idea and this is beautiful.
I mean it's beautiful artwork.
- Yeah, and it's finished with an automotive finish,
so you can see it's very glossy,
and this is not a sticker this is real paint.
And we offer this on the new F131.
- That's great, thank you very much.
- No problem.
- So lets talk a little bit about the APEX,
if you don't mind-- - Yeah, lets talk over here.
I have some demos to show here of the APEX.
Here is the APEX stripped out of the system,
and never before has anyone designed a chassis
from the grounds up like the F131
and the cooling system together.
Usually, the cooling system is more of an afterthought,
or most companies go out and basically get
off-the-shelf liquid cooling solutions
and integrate it into the chassis.
In our case, we designed everything from scratch.
Being that it was from scratch,
we were able to do some really cool things.
We eliminated the cylindrical reservoir,
and this is a full sized reservoir as you can see here,
but it's fully functional
there's actually a flow meter here.
The fresh water comes over here and it disperses,
it gets pressure-regulated and it throws fresh water
into the CPU and the GPUs at the same time,
making the liquid-cooling a little parallel.
What that means is that it becomes more efficient.
Typically, the CPU gets cool water.
It leaves warm from the CPU,
and it goes warm to the first GPU
and then it gets even hotter
by the time it hits the third GPU.
- Sure, and that can impact overclocking,
it can't, maybe, overclock as high as--
- You've got it, because basically your GPUs
can only clock as high as the weakest link in the chain.
In this case, we're able to throw fresh water
into both heat sources at the same time.
- [Mike] Yeah, that's a really intelligent design.
- Thank you, and then part of it as well,
we've integrated little pumps, the dual-pumps behind here.
It saves us some space in the chassis
and it also makes the system redundant,
so we're able to run the pumps at lower speeds
and if one pump does fail,
you still have a fully functional system.
So there's no downtime for you.
There are temperature sensors here,
there are pressure release valves in this system as well
and we're making liquid-cooling better,
that's the bottom line.
This gives us the F131,
which is a very space-efficient system.
There's really no waste of space in here, that's the idea.
- I love the fact there's no compromises here,
that's the thing I really love, because like you said,
"Anything else would make me compromise,"
whether that's performance or size.
- Or size, yeah. - This is a great design
and we really love it.
I also understand you guys
have a great partnership with Razer.
- Yeah.
- Tell me a little bit about that partnership,
and I understand you have a machine to show us as well.
- Absolutely, lets walk over to the third demo here.
Just like the HP relationship
where it's Maingear on the inside and HP on the outside,
we've done the same thing with Razer.
Razer came to us and they essentially wanted
to launch the world's best desktop PC.
And they chose Maingear, to be the company.
The chassis is designed by Razer on the outside,
and in the inside, the engineering,
the cooling system is done by Maingear.
- [Mark] Wow, that's really a beautiful design as well.
- This is the R2, so this is an ITX version of the system.
We also have the R1 which is a fully X version.
And what's unique about this ITX version,
is that it has a lot of cooling.
So while you are compromising a second GPU,
because you're based on the ITX form factor,
there's no compromise in the core,
so we can overclock the processor
and the GPUs at the same time, no issues at all.
And we still keep the acoustics low.
- Right, the aesthetic is really beautiful
on this design as well.
- Thank you, it's Razer so its got the black and green,
it's beautiful, good color choices.
- And the green liquid.
- And the green liquid, exactly.
- Great, well thanks for your time today,
we really appreciate you spending time with us.
- My pleasure, man. Thank you.