Maingear has announced a new Turbo desktop line that packs AMD's new Ryzen 3000 XT desktop CPU into a compact chassis, which Maingear says is the same size as a shoebox.

If you're a shack, you might as well be. The chassis measures 7 (W) x 14.4 (D) x 12.3 (H) inches, much larger than the area needed for my 10.5-inch kicks. It is definitely a compact desktop, like two shoeboxes stacked on top of each other.

There is no Intel inside these machines, only AMD's latest silicon. As is typical with boutique builders, the Turbo line is divided into customizable "stages" and price points. The cheapest configuration is Stage 1, starting at $1,699. This includes: [Stage 2 ($2,199) with a Ryzen 7 3800XT, Radeon RX 5700XT graphics card, and 1TB of storage; Stage 3 ($3,599) with a Ryzen 9 3900XT, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti , 32GB RAM, and 2TB SSD as standard. Otherwise, all three stages are identical.

Maingear also offers the option to customize the system beyond the three Stages, with prices starting at $1,499. Users can choose either the B550 or the X570 (Asus ROG Strix X570-I Gaming WiFi) foundation, and can load the PC with up to 64GB of RAM and up to 2TB of NVMe SSD storage. This route also offers a harder cooling solution.

If you are so inclined, you can pre-order one of these systems now; according to Maingear, the expected ship date for each configuration is four to five weeks. That means you'll have them in your hands around the time AMD and Nvidia are expected to announce their upcoming graphics cards, the AMD RDNA 2 and Nvidia Ampere.