the Corsair one gaming system is basically like the pistol and halo
combat evolved it's small and understated
and totally overpowered now you might be thinking okay Linus
yeah the one was pretty cool when it came out two years ago but what has it done for
me lately how does it merit a re-review
well since you asked although these two look very similar on the outside the
internals have actually gotten a complete overhaul
this one is rocking a liquid cooled core i9 9900k and a liquid cooled rtx 2080 ti
so let's find out how Corsair did that
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before we go any further i need to talk about one area where Corsair totally
dropped the ball here see the fins here on the original model
they are slightly above the fan grill meaning that when you stroke them the
one sings you this wonderful little tune
as for the new one
whole day ruined but seriously the build quality and
design on display here is still fantastic every single part of it just
feels so solid and in my opinion this
machine just doesn't have a bad side it
looks great in basically any situation from a professional studio where desk
space is at a premium to the computer room of a well-off gamer where the
addition of RGB lighting is sure to
impress children of all ages now unless you have a particularly keen
eye the old one and the new one which
we'll be calling the deuce from now on to avoid confusion look nearly identical
the front i o has been moved down and expanded the headphone jack here is a
very welcome addition and the side
actually has a bit of additional venting cut into it
but really that's about it
for now getting around to the back ah
okay so now we're getting somewhere the motherboard is clearly in a different
place and it looks like the position of the power supply has also changed so
let's dive in then and figure out exactly what's going on here so pressing
this button on the back allows us to remove the fan from the top
that's the one right
so pressing this button on the back
so how are you doing this
okay so pressing this button on the back allows us to remove the fan from the top
here you can see it's uh there we go now it's unplugged it's 140 millimeters and
takes care of the majority of the cooling pulling air in through the
radiators that you can actually see on either side here and then exhausting it
right up the top in our testing this results in nearly
silent operation in many situations and
even under full load the deuce is shockingly quiet with the two and a half
inch hard drive and the quiet water pump competing to be the loudest or
more like least quiet component removing these four screws then
that's a marker uh i thought i had my screwdriver in my
pocket i don't removing these four screws then
allows our sides to slide down so here here here and
here
this gives us basically unfettered access to
the guts so with it open we can see that there are
two distinct thermal zones so this radiator on this side provides
up to 300 watts of cooling power for our
GPU and then this one over here which is
actually a little bit smaller gives us about 165 watts for the CPU
now this dual zone design isn't new but
Corsair has actually flipped around which side the components are on and one
benefit of that change is massively better cable management like
let's start by looking at the GPU here i love
how they were able to get all of the cabling along the edge over here see
this it's all tucked in there nicely rather than just sprawling everything
across the components and as for the motherboard well
you can see the improvement on the motherboard side immediately because you
can see the motherboard at all and the
tubing to the radiators has also been shortened which is a surprisingly
important improvement for anyone that might want to upgrade this machine in
the future in the past when you were putting the one back together it was really easy to
accidentally kink the tubing completely cutting off cooling to one of the sides
not very user friendly moving back to the GPU we can actually see here that
the water block is only responsible for
cooling the GPU's core with vrm and
power management being taken care of by this actively cooled heatsink this is
actually not the first time i've seen a design like this there were some older
they were called unisyncs back when d-tec first did it and you were expected
to kind of like duct tape a fan to it there was like no
official way to do it but it works really really well and there are a
couple of reasons for that one it focuses all your cooling power on the
GPU itself where there's actually a performance benefit to be gained and
theoretically if you're a true enthusiast it's possible you'd be able
to take it and then transplant it onto a future
rtx 9000 or whatever the case may be as
long as you could figure out some way to deal with the memory and the vrms now we
can't say for sure how easy that's going to be but we do know that compared to a
full cover block that is specific to the card there's a better chance you'd be
able to reuse some of your components what we can also say for sure is that we
got some outstanding cooling results out of this setup here
in 3dmark the deuce was expectedly within our margin of error for
performance compared to an air-cooled card with the temperatures leveling off
in the high 70s after 45 minutes of gaming
so what that means is that you might not have a massive amount of headroom for
overclocking or anything but it also means that you can expect full boost
clocks indefinitely while your system remains quieter than basically any
air-cooled card let alone an air-cooled card in a tiny chassis like this
moving over to the other side i just i feel like i have to bring this
up again how impressive the improvements
in cable routing are compared to the old model routine upgrades will be
significantly easier this time around
there's not a ton that you can upgrade out of the box since our config is
already loaded for bear both RAM slots are populated for a total of 32 gigs the
single two and a half inch drive bay is occupied by a two terabyte hard drive
and the 480 gig m.2 SSD is located on
the back of the motherboard which is probably actually easier to access by
pulling off the graphics card but the really interesting thing over here is
the CPU radiator which is actually smaller compared to the outgoing model
this allows the compact 600 watt power
supply to pull in fresh air from the outside rather than recycled warm air
from inside the system so that means that it can actually operate much more
efficiently which contributes to the overall quietness of our machine
and then back to the size here Corsair claims
that they actually managed to increase
the cooling capacity since the new layout has a smaller rad but one that
allows more air to be pulled through it so uh let's see how that works out for
them actually looks like it's pretty well so our core i9 9900k stayed right
at a blistering 4.7 gigahertz in games
even after giving it plenty of time to heat up the coolant and our temperatures
managed to hold comfortably around the mid 70s
under a full synthetic load you will end up sacrificing some clock speed dropping
down to about 3.8 gigahertz on all eight cores but
that's actually what we expect from this CPU when Intel's power draw
specifications are followed and it is an absolute beast
so once again in the spec view perf productivity test the deuce throws up
numbers that are nearly identical to what we saw from our open air test bench
with the only real downer for productivity being the lack of an option
for 10 gigabit Ethernet which if we're
being honest is a must-have for professionals that are working with
large heavy files like the 8k red footage that we deal with around here
overall though the story remains the same the Corsair
one is able to give you the performance of a top of the line gaming system in a
compact package while somehow managing to remain quiet cool and sexy
but of course with great design comes
great cost and that really is the biggest downside of the deuce which
starts at 3 thousand dollars for the i-140 with the
better equipped i-160 that we've got here weighing in at an eye-watering 3600
us dollars so
let's put it aside for a second and change the subject a little bit
this is the MSI trident x
it isn't liquid cooled the build quality is
fine but not exceptional it's bigger it
gets a bit louder under load and it has half the RAM
but it also reaches a similar level of
gaming performance and costs 1
000 us dollars less and it gets worse for the one in
Corsair's own lineup you'll find the vengeance gaming pc that we reviewed
recently now it does step the performance down a
touch but you still get a 2 year warranty and you save 600
not to mention that there's better upgradeability and that's ignoring the
option of building your own pc which i guess puts me in sort of an awkward
position doesn't it because the deuce gives me like a great big nerd direction
and i think a world where everybody had one of these would be a better world and
Corsair deserves fat stacks of cash for the engineering work not to mention the
design work that has gone on here it's just that at this price you do need to
have some serious disposable income to
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