Maingear is launching a ’90s-era horizontal desktop with modern components inside. The Retro95 is a beige sleeper build and is for anyone who is nostalgic for the days of Windows 95, floppy disks, dial-up internet, and LAN parties.
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The Retro95 is a prebuilt, customized iteration of the SilverStone FLP01, a case that originated as an April Fools’ joke before becoming a reality last year. Maingear is using the latest components inside, including options to kit this out with AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D, an RTX 5080, 96GB of RAM, and 8TB of NVMe storage.
While it looks like there are two floppy drives at the front, one is just for show and hides an optional 24x DVD-R drive. The other floppy drive conceals a hidden front-panel I/O, complete with a headphone jack, USB-C port, and two USB-A ports.
Maingear is also using Noctua fans for great cooling performance and low amounts of noise, with plenty of ventilation at the sides of the vertical case to keep modern components running without thermal throttling.
There’s even the usual power and disk activity LEDs at the front, alongside power and reset buttons. The only thing missing is a turbo button, which could have been a fun way to overclock a modern CPU like the 9800X3D.
Maingear’s Retro95 is available today starting at $1,599. It’s part of a limited drop, with the PC builder warning: “Once they’re gone, it’s game over.“
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