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Some say , good things come in small packages , that term might be true because Maingear - a gaming PC manufacturer has unveiled a mini gaming cube that has more power than most gaming laptops . Introducing the new Maingear X-Cube , the mini pc , which has dimensions measuring 12.5 x 10 x 15.5 inches is not as tiny as the Gigabyte BRIX cube , but the system , which has a 3Ghz Intel Core i7 5960x slim core processor and support for upto 64GB or Crossair's Dominator DDR3 Ram and you have the option of getting a desktop class GTX980 (not the M) or a AMD Radeon R9 290x according to your budget and taste.The system supports upto 3 SSD or HDD's (storage is a separate addon , like RAM) and if you dont like the pre-installed Windows 8.1 , you can pay a extra $55 and get the old -but -gold Windows 7 OS . The cube features 4 USB 3.0 Ports ,6 USB 2.0 ports and a Ethernet port on the rear , and of course , you will get two USB 3.0 ports in the front along with a audio out jack , the sy...

Maingear has upgraded their current gaming laptop aresnal with Nvidia's GTX980m and GTX970m mobile graphics . The new Mawell based GPU's , which offer 1536 CUDA cores on the GTX980m version and 1280 CUDA cores on the GTX970m are both mobile versions of the their desktop variants minus a few cores .The Maingear Nomad 17 , which is their flagship gaming laptop comes with the GTX980m kit while the Nomad 15 , Pulse 17 and Pulse 15 has the GTX970m option .The Maingear Nomad 17 with GTX980m version costs $2399 and the cheapest option with the 970m costs $2099 . Other laptops from Maingear running the GTX970m will cost more than $2000 which means that this is not the best budget purchase of the year , if you are budget conscious , check out the new Digital Storm gaming laptops  instead. Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - DigitalTrends