When you’re seriously serious about getting a lot of work done or a lot of games won, you may need to shift your focus. Stay away from bloated, mainstream PCs and shift to Maingear’s SHIFT. The tower of power is big in size (24″ high and 21″ long) and big in performance. Based on the Intel i7 Quad-core processor, the aluminum-skinned rig also packs a bottom-to-top cooling system to maintain peak performance from all its parts. Basic inventory includes a 512MB GeForce, 4GB Kingston DDR3 RAM, and a 750 GB SATA HDD among others. The system is also future-compatible with several expansion slots giving you room for further improvement. Maingear also offers a lifetime support for your system where you can talk directly to the builder that assembled your rig. $2,200+.

Feel the immense power of up to 20 processors, 80 high-performance cores, and up to 1TB of memory with this personal supercomputer from Silicon Graphics. The company may have been out of the limelight but their new Octane III will surely bring them back to life and whet the appetites of those hungry for computing blitz. Available in either Intel Atom or Xeon configurations, the pedestal-type powerhouse is a 2-foot by 1-foot assembly of extremes, in a personal computing level of course. Now you can fulfill those graphic-intensive or memory-draining duties with ease. $8,000+.