there's a new Challenger in the trash can shaped PC market oh and this is also
Corsair's first time ever building a
complete computer system so have they
done their homework from the looks of
things yes yes they have
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first ever complete PC they went
straight for the Enthusiast and high-end
gaming segment though given their pedigree that probably shouldn't come as
much of a surprise but what they have
done in what may be a little surprising is that in my opinion they've managed to
do this without being tacky about it
there's a fine line between boring
business computer and over-the-top gamer
and I feel like the way that Corsair made functional elements also look
appealing is something that eludes most
PC industrial design teams even corsairs
breaking with what has become a standard operating procedure at
46221 Landing Parkway Fremont they opted
to not include RGB lighting saying that
it doesn't go with the Quiet ethos of
the system and as big an RGB fan as I am
personally I do have to say that their soft blue lighting scheme which can be
even disabled outright looks very clean
and very modern and it's not just Skin
Deep overall I've got to commend Corsair
for the topnotch build quality of the one the sound of running your
fingers along the top of the radiator
looking metal Grill is satisfying and so
is running your hands down the uh Tastefully perforated aluminum side
panels under which you will find a shocking amount of cooling given the
ones diin ative size the single fan at
the top of the machine draws air through two water cooling radiators in the one
meaning that the CPU and GPU each get
their own slim custom 240 mm rad
ensuring that you'll get the best possible performance out of even
top-of-the-line components ours is equipped with a core i7
7700k that really seems to love hitting its full Turbo at 4.5 GHz and a GTX 1080
that was able to overclock well over 2.1
GHz more on performance in a moment the
I/O is pretty typical desktop grade maybe a little light you'll find a
single USB type A on the front along with an HDMI 2.0 if VR is your kind of
thing then around back is PS2 for your model m keyboard enough USBS and
everything that you'd need for a home theater PC use case as well as a hint
that the video card installation is a little unusual some additions I would
have liked to see are front panel audio we don't all have USB headsets Corsair
and Thunderbolt 3 at the back to test
thermals we loaded up ITA 64 and furmark
at the same time and the results were very impressive after an entire hour of
torture testing the GPU reached a mere
57° C with the CPU peaking at 80 and
while I realize 80° might sound a little hot you have to remember that was under
full synthetic load on the entire system
at max turbo for a freaking hour it actually takes quite a while to get up
that high and the great thermals became
even more apparent when compared to our aircooled test bench with an EVGA
classified 1080 and a decent if unexceptional knct to nd9 l cooler on
our equivalent core i7 to get thermal readings we ran each Benchmark seven
times and recorded the maximum GPU and CPU tempts achieved The Benchmark
results were almost identical across the board between these two systems but what
wasn't identical were the temperatures at factory speeds the CPU on the one was
5 to 10° cooler not that the games were
really stressing it out that much and the GPU was a chilly 20°
cooler while maintaining those temperatures the one also stayed
virtually silent at idol Nick eating green beans on the other side of the
room was louder than the one sitting right beside me and under load the one
becomes audible but the pitch of the
fans makes the machine very easy to tune
out so then it's all great news right go
buy a one by two well no ignoring the
overplayed one name in spite of
Corsair's long Enthusiast history the one is not officially user upgradeable
and when talking to Corsair about
disassembly they basically said like they discouraged end users from doing it
to avoid voiding their warranty and damaging it and as for us well in short
guys we put a lot of love into the Corsair one please don't break it
so of course we took it apart to find out just how complicated it was and of
course we did break it but just a little
bit the one is actually very easy to open removing just two screws on either
side of the top allows you to access the graphics card or the motherboard and CPU
and reveals a few fun and noteworthy things the video card uses extension
cables to reach the front and and back
and features an extra fan to take care of vrm cooling while the radiator is
responsible for only the GPU core the
mere 400 watt power supply uses thinner
gauge custom cables in order to minimize cable clutter and while Corsair did
include an m.2 slot on the miniitx MSI
branded motherboard it's actually on the back of the board and they don't offer
them from the factory so you'll pretty much be stuck with SATA 3 an odd move
though at least that and RAM are
relatively easy to get at so bottom line
then although literally everything in the system is possible to upgrade so A+
Corsair for using standard components I
can only recommend removing their cooling solution if you don't care about
your warranty and you know what you were are doing there are a lot of subtle but
important bits of engineering that they put into this to make the product work
as well as it does I mean thankfully for us the lead product designer was able to
figure out the dumb stuff we had done and get us back up and running in a few
minutes but since we can't tell our whole audience to call Jimmy from
Corsair at8 424
4622 our recommendation for most folks who would buy a pre-built is to air on
the safe side and let them or an authorized service Center take care of
it for you but should you buy one how
much does it cost well ignoring of
course that this is a very high-end build and therefore doesn't come with a
Bargain Basement price tag they've actually done a pretty good job of
keeping the price reasonable building an identically specked system on new EG
came in about $200 less than the one but
that machine used a lesser case it obviously doesn't include assembly
service and any warranty issues will need to be addressed with individual
component manufacturers leading me then to say this thing is pretty darn sweet
if you're willing to make the usual expandability compromises that come with
compact gaming Rigs and you want something that is screaming fast with
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