Maingear has launched its latest custom creation, taking us back to a time when floppy disks were king. Retro95 is a nostalgia-inducing PC that mixes 90s-era aesthetics with the latest and greatest hardware from 2025. Available in limited quantities, it offers a hassle-free turnkey solution to those with an appetite for the look of computers past.
Retro95 uses Silverstone FLP01 as the base for its case but comes with a few tweaks courtesy of Maingear. It’s a complete system that you can configure with the latest components from AMD, Intel, or Nvidia. Just bring your own monitor, CRT or otherwise, and you’re good to go.
There are plenty of touches that those old enough to remember PCs in this style will appreciate. For instance, Retro95 has a front LED indicator, as well as plastic strips for floppy drive openings. The latter actually serves to hide an optical drive.
Though Retro95 looks like an old PC, it doesn’t operate like one. This is a proper sleeper system, hiding away cutting-edge hardware from prying eyes inside a beige horizontal frame without throwing cooling out the window.
Retro95 pricing starts from $1,599, fitted with a GeForce RTX 5050 and Ryzen 5 9600X and other low-end components. You’ll need to spend $3,260 if you fancy the most-powerful configuration, namely a GeForce RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
While it’s clear that Maingear is charging a premium for the components on offer, such is the price of a unique solution like this. That’s not forgetting the costs associated with technicians stress-testing each system by hand for performance and reliability, and lifetime support.
Impossible as it would be for Maingear to pair Retro95 with era-appropriate peripherals, namely a ball mouse and CRT, the system is practically begging for someone to do so with old kit. I’ve little doubt we won’t have to wait long for such an image.
