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We got the new Corsair One i500 and it's so expensive that it showed up in a pelican case.

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I don't know what to say. This thing is...

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It's got a lot of expensive components.

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Don't want to break it or drop it. Oh my god.

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As you can see, they have made it larger than the past. I kind of wish we had the old one here

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for an example, but it used to be more like this, a lot more square.

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They've extended it out the back. I don't know if that's just to fit the 4090 that's inside this

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thing or if it's to fit their 240 millimeter aio that's attached to the 4090. On top of the 120

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mil aio that's attached to the 1400k because yeah this thing it's got a lot of strength.

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It's real strong. They've got this like soft fabric mesh that I'm actually really into. We've

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been seeing more mesh side panels come into vogue. They've been on sff for quite a while but

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especially with the new fractal north how that can come with a mesh side panel. I'm really

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I'm really digging it. I'm really a big fan. Tempered glass is out and look at how easily.

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You just you just pop that off. It's you know it's no problem. It also comes with a handy dandy

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little headphone hanger. You just kind of pop in there put some headphones there. Real great.

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It can fit MATX and it's you know a lot bigger. It's going to go much deeper in your desk and

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you're going to keep it vertical. It's going to fit but honestly can it stay cool? It has a lot

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of ventilation. Like this is all vents. Vents at the top with what two two fans? Yep two fans

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blowing out the top kind of like the old design that went top to bottom to top and then we've

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got more vents out the back so and then what's on the bottom? More vents and rubber feet in

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terms of just form factor and looks with the fancy new wood panels as well. I kind of like it

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before I crack it open and take a look inside. Let's talk about the IO and we've got a couple

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of USB ports on the front with a USB-C and a headphone jack and then on the bottom there's

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nothing but then on the back for USB-A all nicely labeled as 2.0 thank you very much

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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

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what looks like a wireless antenna dongle. Audio on the bottom and spediff. I'm not sure how to

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open this we're going to start by taking off these cool fabric side panels and then take a look at

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all of these screws. I'm just going to start removing screws. That's uh that's usually your

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best bet. Once you've got these four screws off you just pop it open. Look at this super easy to

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get to all these internals. What side is this side? The back. Actually pretty nice cable management

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though. There's a lot of ton of room to work in cases like this and with a 4090 there's a lot of

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power going there and with all the fans they've got something like four or five fans in this thing

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they've actually done a pretty good job with cable management. Nothing's like sticking out.

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You still got room for another two and a half inch SSD if you want to put one in

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and they've got included SATA cables so it should be as easy as screwing it in and hooking it up

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so that's really nice. But what we really want to see is this side look at this we've got one

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two three fans. Okay we're going to take out four more screws to get this top off. One kind of annoying

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thing and a good reason to have an LTT Store screwdriver is unlike the initial four screws

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for the side panels these are not a standard Phillips bit. It's really not the end of the

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world a lot of people have these but I would have loved to see the exact same screw head on

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every single screw. Once they're all off though you just pop that cover off we get access to

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our two fans so they've got the GPU radiator on the 240 mil way up here with two exhaust fans

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and then we've got our CP radiator on the 120 down here. Now 120 millimeters for a 1400k

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it's not enough if you're going to try to sit there and run Cinebench or Prime 95. You're going

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to hit 100C that's not really what I'd recommend the Corsair 1.4. This is for a small form factor

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high-end gaming rig. Now when we get to gaming and temps and all that you will see that 120

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millimeters it's sufficient. You're not going to get you know 60 degrees C when you're gaming but

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it's honestly not bad. More on that later once you take out these other two little tiny Phillips

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screws here and here you can open this up. Isn't that cute? I actually really really like this design.

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All of a sudden you know you're going to get a lot more access to your CPU if you actually

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want to take this off and take that out and swap it out. Otherwise we've just got some dual channel

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DDR5 memory here. Pretty sure it's 6000 megatransferors per second which is pretty decent. It's nothing

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you know it could be faster these days but it's definitely not bad. If you want to get at the

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GPU you're going to have to take this fan and shroud off okay just pull it down and then you

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can see this crazy water block just on the die. I've never seen a water block 4090 like this

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but our temps were okay so whatever they're doing it seems fine. I didn't look at VRAM temps but

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should be all right and as you can see yep it's got these two hoses going all the way up to this

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240mm rad at the top. It has to be turned on for this feature to work but you're plugging things in.

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You can't see where the ports are what cable you're holding. You just kind of like put your hand down

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here a little bit and it pops a light up for you. Don't get me wrong we got a bunch of studio

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lighting it's easy to see but when this thing is like behind your desk your lights are off you

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got to do a certain cable. That's really handy and I kind of wish there was a light on basically

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every case I own now by the IO and then on the front we've got these two diffused RGB strips.

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I wish they were a little bigger or I wish the metal didn't quite overhang as much as it does

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but in the dark it's actually quite visible. The really cool thing is it's got all the different

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color presets on this bar so you don't like the color you just swipe your finger down change it

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to something else and then you just stop it once you're on something you like and then on the bottom

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if you press and hold I believe it is it'll cycle through different modes.

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Pretty neat they do have software in here so you can control it all from your desktop but I mean

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you know I don't know I kind of like this it's a really minor thing but I love it I love tactile

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features. Let's see how it performs though with a 1400k and a 4090. We've got cyberpunk running in

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the background and it's just the main menu but we're hitting like 80c 75c that's fine because

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it's you know we're gaming. We're just setting up OBS and checking our screen recording for

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4k cyberpunk and we took a look at the temperatures. It is definitely increased a little bit over

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time here we're hitting our max of 98c or even 100c on our core max for our CPU. Like I said before

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Corsair I know that for gaming it's fine the performance is actually going to be good it's

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just running hot but please I don't like seeing it go red just put try to fit another 240 in here

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you made the case so much bigger stick a second 240 it would help so much at least I think I like

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to think it would. Anyway in terms of gameplay performance 4k ultra ray tracing on we were

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getting like 40 FPS you turn DLSS on set it to quality which still looks good has some artifact

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issues here and there but you know if you're not too sensitive to that it's fine but look

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very playable 80 FPS with like 70 on our 1% lows high 60s mid 60s totally fine and really

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ray tracing is it worth it not usually it looks really good but man the performance tanks so

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just turn that off too and you're good to go. The reality is we're getting about what you'd expect

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from a 14900k and a 4090 the really good news is though unlike our CPU our GPU on that 240

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rad is actually doing pretty good our hot spot only 70 degrees max I mean it's already down to

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like 40 because you can hear the fans they're cranked they're really trying to keep it cool

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but it's a 4090 and it's staying well within spec so you know put some speakers on put some

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headphones on keep them on the headphone hook just ignore the fans to test out thermals Labs

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tested f1 4k ray tracing on the CPU side we got a max of 81 with an average of 59 degrees but on

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our GPU it didn't even crack 70 reaching a max of 69 nice and an average of 67 it's pretty good

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considering it's a small form factor those GPU temperatures are also pretty impressive we compared

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it to an alienware r15 with a 4090 in it and it got a little worse than that that thing crept up

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as high as 82 max on the GPU and then it only averaged at 80 degrees Celsius moving on to

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combustor that gap narrows just a little bit on the alienware we see a max of 75 with an average

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of 72 while our Corsair one sticks at 70 degrees Celsius with a average of 67 overall pretty impressive

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last but not least in our Cinebench test the two different systems we tested do have slightly

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different CPUs we've got a 13900 kf in the alienware but they're both going to thermal throttle

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reaching upwards of 100 degrees Celsius on the Corsair max of 98 on the alienware however the

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alienware does keep a much lower average of 79 degrees Celsius these i9s are really hard to

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cool it doesn't matter what you put on them an hd15 420 mil rad like it just it doesn't matter

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unless you go full custom loop they're gonna run hot however that significantly lower temperature

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on the alienware is largely because it's thermal throttling itself and as soon as it gets up there

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it just comes right back down to keep itself in spec because it's able to maintain those clock speeds

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and it does boost a little higher on the i9 14900 k our 1080p results they're pretty good they

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actually beat out the alienware quite substantially in a couple of our tests however when we get to

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1440p and 4k the gap kind of narrows a little bit you can really tell that they're using the same GPU

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and that 4090s don't thermal throttle that easily because of all the cooling attached to them even

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though this one's on a 240 mil rad and not the stock cooler we're seeing results that are almost

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neck and neck pretty much the exact same across the board as soon as you're upping your resolution

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and going to a more GPU bound kind of scenario i do expect most of you to get this as a gaming pc

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but in terms of productivity it's pretty good here's some lab's results so you can see for

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yourself overall not a bad system at all as for price now we're talking about the alienware r15

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when we compare it to this new Corsair one and the r15 is the old model the 16 goes for surprisingly

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about four thousand dollars the Corsair one with basically the same specs although some very minor

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differences we'll get to is forty seven hundred dollars the alienware is also on sale right now

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knocking the price down even further if you go for the Corsair one there are advantages i mean one

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it's small form factor you're going to pay the sff tax on top of that it does have slightly faster

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memory and while it's only about a forty dollar difference if you're just buying the CPU separately

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this one does have integrated graphics so if you ever have to stop in troubleshoot you're all set

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almost five thousand dollars can seem like quite a bit of money but don't forget that the graphics

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card in here alone is almost too grand and the fact that you're getting a pretty slick case

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a lot of cooling there was quite a few fans in here performance was good xmp came enabled out of

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the box if you're looking at high-end boutique pre-built then you're kind of splitting hairs when

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it comes to a few more hundred dollars anyway i think it looks really good and at the end of the

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day it kind of just comes down to taste do you like the way this looks and performs better than the

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competition i mean i do i don't know if i'd buy it but it's pretty sweet thanks for watching short

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circuit if you want to take a look at another pre-built that you could consider buying from a

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pretty reputable brand check out the main gear mg1 great computer we still use it see you later