We got the new Corsair One i500 and it's so expensive that it showed up in a pelican case.
I don't know what to say. This thing is...
It's got a lot of expensive components.
Don't want to break it or drop it. Oh my god.
As you can see, they have made it larger than the past. I kind of wish we had the old one here
for an example, but it used to be more like this, a lot more square.
They've extended it out the back. I don't know if that's just to fit the 4090 that's inside this
thing or if it's to fit their 240 millimeter aio that's attached to the 4090. On top of the 120
mil aio that's attached to the 1400k because yeah this thing it's got a lot of strength.
It's real strong. They've got this like soft fabric mesh that I'm actually really into. We've
been seeing more mesh side panels come into vogue. They've been on sff for quite a while but
especially with the new fractal north how that can come with a mesh side panel. I'm really
I'm really digging it. I'm really a big fan. Tempered glass is out and look at how easily.
You just you just pop that off. It's you know it's no problem. It also comes with a handy dandy
little headphone hanger. You just kind of pop in there put some headphones there. Real great.
It can fit MATX and it's you know a lot bigger. It's going to go much deeper in your desk and
you're going to keep it vertical. It's going to fit but honestly can it stay cool? It has a lot
of ventilation. Like this is all vents. Vents at the top with what two two fans? Yep two fans
blowing out the top kind of like the old design that went top to bottom to top and then we've
got more vents out the back so and then what's on the bottom? More vents and rubber feet in
terms of just form factor and looks with the fancy new wood panels as well. I kind of like it
before I crack it open and take a look inside. Let's talk about the IO and we've got a couple
of USB ports on the front with a USB-C and a headphone jack and then on the bottom there's
nothing but then on the back for USB-A all nicely labeled as 2.0 thank you very much
Playport HDMI and then a USB-C and then a 3.2 a couple more 3.2 two and a half gig LAN and then
what looks like a wireless antenna dongle. Audio on the bottom and spediff. I'm not sure how to
open this we're going to start by taking off these cool fabric side panels and then take a look at
all of these screws. I'm just going to start removing screws. That's uh that's usually your
best bet. Once you've got these four screws off you just pop it open. Look at this super easy to
get to all these internals. What side is this side? The back. Actually pretty nice cable management
though. There's a lot of ton of room to work in cases like this and with a 4090 there's a lot of
power going there and with all the fans they've got something like four or five fans in this thing
they've actually done a pretty good job with cable management. Nothing's like sticking out.
You still got room for another two and a half inch SSD if you want to put one in
and they've got included SATA cables so it should be as easy as screwing it in and hooking it up
so that's really nice. But what we really want to see is this side look at this we've got one
two three fans. Okay we're going to take out four more screws to get this top off. One kind of annoying
thing and a good reason to have an LTT Store screwdriver is unlike the initial four screws
for the side panels these are not a standard Phillips bit. It's really not the end of the
world a lot of people have these but I would have loved to see the exact same screw head on
every single screw. Once they're all off though you just pop that cover off we get access to
our two fans so they've got the GPU radiator on the 240 mil way up here with two exhaust fans
and then we've got our CP radiator on the 120 down here. Now 120 millimeters for a 1400k
it's not enough if you're going to try to sit there and run Cinebench or Prime 95. You're going
to hit 100C that's not really what I'd recommend the Corsair 1.4. This is for a small form factor
high-end gaming rig. Now when we get to gaming and temps and all that you will see that 120
millimeters it's sufficient. You're not going to get you know 60 degrees C when you're gaming but
it's honestly not bad. More on that later once you take out these other two little tiny Phillips
screws here and here you can open this up. Isn't that cute? I actually really really like this design.
All of a sudden you know you're going to get a lot more access to your CPU if you actually
want to take this off and take that out and swap it out. Otherwise we've just got some dual channel
DDR5 memory here. Pretty sure it's 6000 megatransferors per second which is pretty decent. It's nothing
you know it could be faster these days but it's definitely not bad. If you want to get at the
GPU you're going to have to take this fan and shroud off okay just pull it down and then you
can see this crazy water block just on the die. I've never seen a water block 4090 like this
but our temps were okay so whatever they're doing it seems fine. I didn't look at VRAM temps but
should be all right and as you can see yep it's got these two hoses going all the way up to this
240mm rad at the top. It has to be turned on for this feature to work but you're plugging things in.
You can't see where the ports are what cable you're holding. You just kind of like put your hand down
here a little bit and it pops a light up for you. Don't get me wrong we got a bunch of studio
lighting it's easy to see but when this thing is like behind your desk your lights are off you
got to do a certain cable. That's really handy and I kind of wish there was a light on basically
every case I own now by the IO and then on the front we've got these two diffused RGB strips.
I wish they were a little bigger or I wish the metal didn't quite overhang as much as it does
but in the dark it's actually quite visible. The really cool thing is it's got all the different
color presets on this bar so you don't like the color you just swipe your finger down change it
to something else and then you just stop it once you're on something you like and then on the bottom
if you press and hold I believe it is it'll cycle through different modes.
Pretty neat they do have software in here so you can control it all from your desktop but I mean
you know I don't know I kind of like this it's a really minor thing but I love it I love tactile
features. Let's see how it performs though with a 1400k and a 4090. We've got cyberpunk running in
the background and it's just the main menu but we're hitting like 80c 75c that's fine because
it's you know we're gaming. We're just setting up OBS and checking our screen recording for
4k cyberpunk and we took a look at the temperatures. It is definitely increased a little bit over
time here we're hitting our max of 98c or even 100c on our core max for our CPU. Like I said before
Corsair I know that for gaming it's fine the performance is actually going to be good it's
just running hot but please I don't like seeing it go red just put try to fit another 240 in here
you made the case so much bigger stick a second 240 it would help so much at least I think I like
to think it would. Anyway in terms of gameplay performance 4k ultra ray tracing on we were
getting like 40 FPS you turn DLSS on set it to quality which still looks good has some artifact
issues here and there but you know if you're not too sensitive to that it's fine but look
very playable 80 FPS with like 70 on our 1% lows high 60s mid 60s totally fine and really
ray tracing is it worth it not usually it looks really good but man the performance tanks so
just turn that off too and you're good to go. The reality is we're getting about what you'd expect
from a 14900k and a 4090 the really good news is though unlike our CPU our GPU on that 240
rad is actually doing pretty good our hot spot only 70 degrees max I mean it's already down to
like 40 because you can hear the fans they're cranked they're really trying to keep it cool
but it's a 4090 and it's staying well within spec so you know put some speakers on put some
headphones on keep them on the headphone hook just ignore the fans to test out thermals Labs
tested f1 4k ray tracing on the CPU side we got a max of 81 with an average of 59 degrees but on
our GPU it didn't even crack 70 reaching a max of 69 nice and an average of 67 it's pretty good
considering it's a small form factor those GPU temperatures are also pretty impressive we compared
it to an alienware r15 with a 4090 in it and it got a little worse than that that thing crept up
as high as 82 max on the GPU and then it only averaged at 80 degrees Celsius moving on to
combustor that gap narrows just a little bit on the alienware we see a max of 75 with an average
of 72 while our Corsair one sticks at 70 degrees Celsius with a average of 67 overall pretty impressive
last but not least in our Cinebench test the two different systems we tested do have slightly
different CPUs we've got a 13900 kf in the alienware but they're both going to thermal throttle
reaching upwards of 100 degrees Celsius on the Corsair max of 98 on the alienware however the
alienware does keep a much lower average of 79 degrees Celsius these i9s are really hard to
cool it doesn't matter what you put on them an hd15 420 mil rad like it just it doesn't matter
unless you go full custom loop they're gonna run hot however that significantly lower temperature
on the alienware is largely because it's thermal throttling itself and as soon as it gets up there
it just comes right back down to keep itself in spec because it's able to maintain those clock speeds
and it does boost a little higher on the i9 14900 k our 1080p results they're pretty good they
actually beat out the alienware quite substantially in a couple of our tests however when we get to
1440p and 4k the gap kind of narrows a little bit you can really tell that they're using the same GPU
and that 4090s don't thermal throttle that easily because of all the cooling attached to them even
though this one's on a 240 mil rad and not the stock cooler we're seeing results that are almost
neck and neck pretty much the exact same across the board as soon as you're upping your resolution
and going to a more GPU bound kind of scenario i do expect most of you to get this as a gaming pc
but in terms of productivity it's pretty good here's some lab's results so you can see for
yourself overall not a bad system at all as for price now we're talking about the alienware r15
when we compare it to this new Corsair one and the r15 is the old model the 16 goes for surprisingly
about four thousand dollars the Corsair one with basically the same specs although some very minor
differences we'll get to is forty seven hundred dollars the alienware is also on sale right now
knocking the price down even further if you go for the Corsair one there are advantages i mean one
it's small form factor you're going to pay the sff tax on top of that it does have slightly faster
memory and while it's only about a forty dollar difference if you're just buying the CPU separately
this one does have integrated graphics so if you ever have to stop in troubleshoot you're all set
almost five thousand dollars can seem like quite a bit of money but don't forget that the graphics
card in here alone is almost too grand and the fact that you're getting a pretty slick case
a lot of cooling there was quite a few fans in here performance was good xmp came enabled out of
the box if you're looking at high-end boutique pre-built then you're kind of splitting hairs when
it comes to a few more hundred dollars anyway i think it looks really good and at the end of the
day it kind of just comes down to taste do you like the way this looks and performs better than the
competition i mean i do i don't know if i'd buy it but it's pretty sweet thanks for watching short
circuit if you want to take a look at another pre-built that you could consider buying from a
pretty reputable brand check out the main gear mg1 great computer we still use it see you later