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of a laid-back and casual review of the Corsair one so sorry if this video is a little bit lengthy it's not scripted at all so I might tend to digress like J bit in the midst of all this but if you were in the market for a more concise and detailed review of the Corsair 1 I've linked some videos in the description below from my good youtube friends so go ahead and check that out but yeah we're going to talk about this thing talk about what makes it special and all that and whether or not it's worth the money for starters this is a pre-built system and before you just instantly exit out of the video go out pretty dope mad nasty horrible there are some very special things about this rig that set it apart from a conventional small form-factor pre-built the first of which is that it is using a custom mini ITX case however the components inside are all using standard form factor which means you can technically upgrade this thing and we're going to talk about that more in detail later on the other cool thing about this system is that the particular model I have here with me today is actually rocking a water-cooled CPU and GPU which is pretty impressive considering the small footprint that Corsair has managed to fit this all in and we'll see exactly how they did that in just a moment but we're talking about 12 liters of volume capacity here it's very small you could fit this in the backpack it'd have to be a larger backpack but you could do it it's a little heavy very possible though it's super portable especially for all the power that's in here this particular model runs for $2,300 which is a bit on the steep side this specific model is the Corsair one pro web store exclusive which means you can only purchase it from the Corsair website and it's actually one of four different hardware loadouts that you can choose from I think it's the second highest tier there's one above it that feature the GTX 1080p eye and there's two more models beneath it with lesser specs of course this one is actually featuring a GTX 1080 still very powerful a full-fledged the full-fledged desktop GPU as well as a 7700 K core i7 from Intel and again both of those are water-cooled which is pretty awesome and we've also got 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 that's running at 2400 I believe and we've also got a 960 gig SSD that is SATA 3 so it's not nvme but for most users if you're not doing like some some hardcore professional workstation applications then you're probably good with SATA 3 we'll take a look at the other specs later on but for now let's talk about the case and sort of the exterior for one it's it's super it's totes gorge it's totes gorge guys it's a it's a very nice looking case looks even better in person I watch the videos and other reviews and like yeah it looks pretty nice and then seeing it in persons like whoa that's that's a pretty sexy that's a pretty sexy pretty belt right there it's actually got full aluminum paneling around the sides it's black aluminum you actually get these really nice blue aqua blue LED strips on either side that can be disabled but they're not RGB who knew that Corsair still made non RGB components here in 2017 and honestly I don't even mind that it's not RGB like at all in fact I kind of like that it's just one color it sort of identifies and brands the products like when you see those aqua strips you instantly know that it's the one so to speak front diode we've got a nice power button that has a nice click too it's very high quality we've also got a single HDMI 2.0 be at the front if you're into VR and one USB 3 port I would have liked to see a second one especially for users of including myself that sometimes use peripheral devices having a you know a USB receiver plugged into one port it's nice to have a second one if you want to just quickly pop in a flash drive or something like that but what can you do one will have to do for now there's also no front panel audio which I thought was kind of strange I personally am NOT a fan I try to avoid front panel audio at all costs but for users who are into that and use it often up kind of a bummer we've also got ventilation on both sides we'll talk about that in a second moving on into the back here trying to get fingerprints on this thing the thing is a fingerprint magnet by the way but if you can manage to keep it clean it looks fantastic just thought I'd point that out so we've got our usual fanfare of audio jacks s/pdif out two threads where you can connect some Wi-Fi antennas a clear CMOS button which is really nice actually you get the ethernet 3 USB 3 ports a USB 3.1 type-c port 2 USB 2 s and a ps2 port for an old-school mouse or keyboard and there's also three video outputs that's definitely not referenced GT x 1080i oh but of course we do have the one HDMI on the front hence why we only have three at the back which is probably good enough for most users you get two USB I'm sorry that's two DisplayPort 1.4 s and one HDMI 2.0 B and the AC plug of course at the bottom there's also this button at the top which which allows you to sort of release the top grille aha ah yeah you're probably wondering about that weren't you so there's a 140 millimeter Maglev fan right at the top there and it's the only case fan in the entire chassis believe it or not so it's actually exhausting hot air up and out of the case which means it's bringing fresh air through the side ventilation on either side this case is actually designed in such a way where there's two chambers one chamber for the GPU and the other for the CPU and motherboard and so there is ventilation on both sides so either side is getting ample airflow which is nice let's take an actual closer look at at the internals I think that's where things get really interesting with the Corsair one and I also want to mention that it's super quiet right now because we're idling of course but also because we only have one case fan and it's a 140 it's a maglev it's super high quality so this is probably going to be a fairly quiet mini ITX PC which you generally don't hear too often when it comes to pre build so but we'll do an acoustics test soon enough let's go ahead and open Y put back on let's just pop this sucker up again alright maybe I should zoom out let's change camera angles you can see what I'm doing here alright so got my creepy gloves on we're going to crack this sucker open let's go ahead and start again by pressing that button at the back and releasing the grill is look at the Maglev fan beautiful there's PWM of course and you can just unplug it like that you know I'm gonna I'm going to power the system down actually I should have done that earlier I got to say I like how removing this part was completely to list it makes it super easy however you will need a screwdriver for this next part so either side both of these side panels on the Corsair one can fold down giving you access to either chamber we're going to start with the CPU and motherboard chamber and for that you will need again a screw driver there are two screws only two though I'm glad there's only two nice standard Phillips head screws none of that hexagonal crap come on screw I believe in you oh Jesus okay make sure that you make sure you put your hand and you're ready to catch the panel when it falls like that so that it doesn't fall like that so here we get our first glimpse as to how exactly Corsair is gone about water cooling their CPU we've got our water block with the built-in pump two tubes very short tubes to fit everything nicely connected to a slim 240 millimeter radiator and the rad is actually just flush with the side panel so you get really nice fresh intake going through that rad and the rest of the system very nice design overall this more or less functions like a regular AO water block so you could theoretically pop this off and swap in a different CPU of course with LGA 1151 and a 7700 K there's not really much of an upgrade path there but say I don't know something terrible happens to your CPU you swap it out you could do so or you could just swap out the entire motherboard and just install like a completely new platform if you wanted to this motherboard in particular is e2 70s so obviously we can overclock there's actually a pretty fatty heatsink on the v RM so I'm pretty sure we can dial in a hefty OC we've also got both of our memory modules populated there one thing I want to mention about the motherboard I believe watching the other reviews that there is an m2 slot at the back of the board I can't recall if it's PCIe or SATA or both I'll make an annotation or something but that is an option of course it would be kind of a pain to get to since it's behind the board you'd have to either take out the entire board or maybe you could access it from the GPU chamber if you remove the graphics card but I'm not too sure about that however here's a peek at your m2 m2 your FSA your two and a half inch SATA 3 SSD and here we have our 400 watt SFX power supply of corsair branding look at what they've done with the wiring here it looks like a thinner gauge sort of a custom wiring job here and the cable management is superb guys like theirs it keeps a lot of open rooms so the airflow can more easily flow through the case which is really nice so good job on your Corsair for that if we look at the top really quick there's your power switch and you can see that they're using the power and AC pass-through to go to the bottom back of the case and also there's some pass throughs for your video outs on the video card which we should take a look at now let's let's do that let's put this back up and then we'll crack open the other side one screw and I'm going to catch it this time yeah man yeah you know and here ladies gentlemen is where the video card lies it's not an honest one and we get a very similar configuration as we saw with the CPU we've got our water block with a built-in pump some short tubing going to a slim 240 millimeter radiator up against the side panel and you'll notice that the GPU is really the only part of the card that's being cooled by liquid everything else is either passive or actively cooled by air you can see that there's actually a blower style fan right here that's on the VRM or that's you know covering the vrm area so that's kind of nice you you're getting dedicated water cooling just for your GPU we've also got a very smart implementation of a PCB that connects the graphics card via it's pcie 3.0 connector and wires it to the motherboard on the other side and here you can see we've got some pass-through cables going from all four of our video outs on the graphics card to this module down here sort of a custom a custom design that gives us the three video outs that we saw on the back of the case earlier now when I first saw how this was all laid out I was pretty unsure of whether or not you could upgrade the graphics card because honestly if you couldn't that would be a huge deal breaker for me personally especially if you're spending this kind of money on a prebuilt I want to be able to upgrade it in the future I don't want it to just have a dead stop when it gets too slow and I have to buy a completely new system so fortunately it looks like you probably can upgrade the video card this looks like just a regular two slot card that the rear i/o is just a two slot design so you can pop in another however I don't know how easy it would be to actually transfer the cooling system onto another graphics card it would have to be one of a similar board has a similar PCB layout for sure but that being said I just would have to try it myself in order to find out which I'm not going to be doing today what's more feasible most likely is just taking the entire card and the cooling system out and putting in just a regular air-cooled GPU but the downside would be that you would be losing out on this beautiful cooling system which means you would probably be introducing a bit more noise into the equation especially if you're using a blower style card I would recommend that getting up track here you probably can upgrade to a different video card later down the line I'm going to say that's possible however you're probably going to also need to be very careful with what you're doing you need to know what you're doing because if you mess up you are going to be voiding your warranty by upgrading in the first place and course there won't be able to help you so just make sure you do your homework in your research before you start diving in to swapping things out and things like that but the fact that you can upgrade this is so huge and makes this so much more valuable as a product to me because again Corsair has done a really good job and made a smart choice to use standard form factor components so that is pretty awesome I think on that note let's actually hook this up I want to power back up again because it looks so pretty with those LEDs and let's just see how it performs let's just check out some thermals some acoustics and we'll benchmark it and maybe overclock it I don't know do we have time for all that we'll see we'll see what we get through let's listen to it alright ladies and germs we are in the BIOS you can see it's the msi UEFI because of rocket and MSI motherboard of course this is a good a good BIOS I'm very familiar with it I've used countless z2 70 MSI boards up till this point and it's a it's good unified I do like it it's well organized and well thought-out too easy to find everything and you can do some overclocking with it as well we're going to hold off on that just for now because I want to see what the temperatures are just at the default settings with turbo boost enabled on our 7700 K but here's all the tweaking options available to you so I'm just going to go ahead and jump into the OS all right so here we are in the first level of GTA 5 just rollin through some streets with good old Franklin and right off the bat we can see that we've got our rated we're hitting our rated frequency our turbo of 4500 mega Hertz on the CPU and temperatures are looking in the range of the 70s I would say we we have already spiked up to 83 degrees C which is kind of warm nothing to be alarmed of still beneath the maximum temperature threshold for the 7700 K however temperatures could be chillier and this sort of makes me a little weary to get into some overclocking just because I know that if we bump up the voltage any we could potentially see even higher temps and I wouldn't want to push it much further so I would overclock at your discretion I've already sort of dabbled with some CPU overclocking before filming this shot and I was able to get 4.8 gigahertz at one point to three volts stable and that playing the same level in GTA 5 I was actually spiking up to 86 degrees C and that was you know not not a constant 8086 C but it was definitely hitting back every once in a while so it depends on how comfortable you are with with certain temperatures and just sort of where you want your system to to level at I'm pretty happy with 83 C right here I don't think I would overclock much just because at the end of the day you're probably not going to notice a difference in gaming performance anyway it's just sort of you know it would have been nice to have a bit more thermal Headroom to push our CPU a bit further especially for all you enthusiasts out there who like to overclock for the thrill of it which is totally understandable but our GPU on the other hand this is our GT X 1080 right now is running stock have not touched it at all and we're at a chilly 53 or 55 degrees C we're in the mid 50's which is phenomenal so where the CPU thermals are lacking a bit the cooling system on the GPU is doing its job very well so kind of makes me want to overclock it which we should do now alright guys so here we are in Unigine heaven 4.0 you can see I've maxed out our power and temp target sliders and dialed in a pretty decent core o'clock offset of 240 megahertz a more moderate offset on our memory clock of 150 megahertz bringing us to 2075 point 5 megahertz just south of 2.1 gigahertz guys at 61 degrees Celsius holy moly that's it's working awesome you would have to spend an arm and a leg just to get a GPU of this caliber running at these speeds at that temperature so the fact that Corsairs managed to do this in such a small footprint is really a testament to the engineering and design of the cooling system on that video card if only the the CPU cooled this well then it would just be you know 10 out of 10 and all that sort of thing but this is still really impressive guys so plenty of overclocking Headroom to be had on the video card in the Corsair one but we're not finished yet ladies and gentlemen the surprises keep on coming let's talk about acoustics first of which I can barely hear the system while it's running you know it's been running image in heaven for about 10-15 minutes now and it is just quiet I mean it's audible you can hear it but it's too low hum and you know against my my little window AC unit it's it just fades into the background it's just so it's very graceful so here's a sound test idle and load acoustics for your viewing or your hearing pleasure suffice to say I am completely stunned just at how quiet this thing is and how cool it is at least for the GPU and finally before we close things out I wanted to give you guys a quick look at gaming performance obviously that's what most people who buy this thing are going to be doing most of the time is playing games and here we have GTA 5 at 2560 by 1440 MSAA is disabled however all the other settings are completely maxed out draw distance texture quality etc shadows and I'm not going to be doing any further hard benchmarks on this thing you guys are already pretty familiar with the performance of the GTX 1080 and the 7700 K even when paired together that's been exhaustively tested so but here just to show that you are getting you know DIY desktop grade performance here at around 80 fps and granted this is a very textured scene with a lot of a lot of draw calls and stuff way out in the distance but in the cities I was getting around 100 FPS easy where it's a little bit more populated with buildings and stuff again this is just a really smooth experience you would you wouldn't notice that it's a prebuilt of any kind also the bloat where there's like there's like no bloatware I mean it does like a few Corsair apps maybe an MSI app or two but nothing too intrusive I just wanted to point that out but yeah the gameplay on this thing is just absolutely killer so on that note let's go ahead and wrap this video up with some closing words alright so where to begin with this fantastic product there's honestly so much to love about it but there's a few shortcomings as well so I'll go down the list of pros and cons as we wrap things up here first of which is I love how portable it is you can literally take it anywhere and it's versatile as well you can use it as an HTP see if you have room in your home entertainment center which you wouldn't need much room to fit this and it would look really nice at the same time you could use it as a workstation PC plop it right next to a nice big 4k monitor and do some editing I mean you can pretty much do anything with this PC this is like what I wanted might go anything or go anywhere do anything PC to be this is like what that computer aspires to it's powerful as hell obviously with the current configuration GTA X 1080 70 700 K it just screams through games that we don't really need to expand on that much GPU thermals are absolutely bonkers I mean 60 degrees Celsius under load while overclocked heavily overclocked mind you is just insane if you were to tweet the voltage of it you could probably hit easily hit 2.1 gigahertz on the card no problem noise profile is also fantastic this is again one of the quietest letting on okay let me cue everyday play wives it is so quiet though I honestly can't get over how quiet the one is and it it truly is a thing of beauty it really is but another cool thing about this product is that there's only one support team you have to deal with Corsair of course it doesn't matter if your CPU graphics card motherboard SSD whatever goes wrong you just call up Corsair as opposed to if you're doing it yourself you've got potentially 8 to 12 different manufacturers that you have to go through if you have an issue warranty problems etc so that is a nice convenience and perhaps my favorite feature about the one is that it is upgradable and granted the GTX 1080 is going to last you quite some time but eventually it will get slow and you'll want to swap it out for another two slot card you'll be able to do that fairly easily and I'm going to say fairly easily and here's where we start to go to some of the cons some of the shortcomings of the one is that since it is a custom case upgrading it and servicing it is going to be a little bit more tricky than just a regular DIY build so you want to bear that in mind and it will also void your warranty so all you wort warranty voyeurs out there who don't give an F that's probably fine for you but for those of us who might still want to hang on to that just for peace of mind if you do upgrade your system you are going to miss out on a warranty but other things to note here the front i/o is a little bit lacking I would like to see an additional USB 3 and perhaps an audio jack at the front not a huge deal maybe for some CPU thermals were a little bit underwhelming I would have really liked to be able to push that 7700 K to at least you know four point eight five gigahertz and still maintain you know temperatures in the low 80s at the very most but unfortunately we were not able to do that so that is kind of a downer it kind of tricks you right you see the case give you like an unlimited potential but that's not quite the case here and then finally this is a little bit pricier than if you were to build a similar rig yourself of course you're gonna be sacrificing several things by building it yourself which usually it's the other way around right if you're if you're getting the pre build then there's certain things you're missing out on but honestly thermals and and silence you're getting all that in this pre-built package granted for about 25 to 30 percent more than what you could buy equivalently on your own but damn it's it's a solid product that's undeniable and I would give it a full recommendation assuming you have the funds and if you're you know if this is the sort of product that you need it's the one you should get for sure but I think that's it those are all the things I want to say about the Corsair 1 co flea you guys enjoyed this video I know it was lengthier and sort of unscripted off-the-cuff hopefully you don't mind let me know what you think about this product in the comments below and 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