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Maingear Launches Retro98, 1990s-Look Desktops With 2026 Flagship Power

Orders are open for a limited drop built as collectibles by a single technician at Maingear’s New Jersey shop.

Overview

  • Maingear offers four builds priced from $2,499 to $9,799, capped by an open-loop Alpha configuration with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D and GeForce RTX 5090.
  • The run is capped at 32 standard units, with Alpha quantities listed as six in Maingear’s materials but reported as five by some outlets, and no reruns are planned.
  • Systems are available now exclusively on Maingear.com and ship with Kingston Fury memory and SSDs rather than the company’s usual BYO RAM option.
  • Each unit is hand-assembled in New Jersey and features retro cues such as a beige chassis, LED fan-speed display, a working turbo button, and hidden front I/O.
  • The line uses SilverStone’s FLP02 case and spans options from Intel Core Ultra 7 265K with RTX 5070 to AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with RTX 5090, with Alphacool co-developing the Alpha’s open-loop cooling.