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hey how's it going space QD here so a few months ago at CES I was at a Coursera presentation and they were going to reveal a product and based on the emails that were kind of going back and forth between Coursera and I I thought that they were going to reveal some super secret laptop it wasn't it was this thing which is way better than a super secret laptop this is my dream computer this is called Corsair one it's a pre-built 12 litre computer that holds a full-size GPU now for comparison of size this is a 2013 Mac Pro it's around five and a half or six liters the average ITX case is around 18 to 20 litres my micro ATX case is around 40 litres it's pretty big the coarser one is 12 litres it's small on the exterior it's a smooth black finish really good build quality none of the edges are nasty sharp or anything aesthetically I like it it's not for everyone but I think they did a good job on the design there's some lighting up front but Corsair 1 against the grain and instead of falling the whole RGB trend we're seeing everywhere it only lights up in blue you can control the brightness and timing settings in software decide to have these triangular perforations there for airflow and you'll see in a minute why there's so many of them the i/o is pretty good I mean it's desktop PC running full-size graphics card on the back we have audio jacks AC Wi-Fi Ethernet - the very important ps2 ports and 6 USB ports one of them being Type C but it's not son of all three up front we have HDMI 2.0 and a USB 3.1 which is perfect for VR setups a lot of companies have made small gaming pcs but to see what makes for some special you have to go inside opening it up is pretty easy you press a switch and the top grille pops off underneath this grille is the main fan it's a corsair Maglev fan these things are awesome lots of airflow and really quiet you remove some screws and then you're inside so this system is water cooled by two separate loops on the CPU side there's one loop that uses a thin 240 millimeter rad this is cooling a kb lake 77 kay and you'll notice there's no fans on this radiator the airflow to cool this thing is primarily coming from that maglev fan at the top and then on the other side the GPU side there's another loop with its own rat so this one's also a sin 240 millimeter rad the GPU in this unit the review unit is a water-cooled GG X 1080 but the base model has an air-cooled gtx 1070 so we have three fans the big Maglev fan up top the fan on the GPU side and then the fan inside the power supply which looks like a SF 400 from coarser these are supposed to be enough to cool this entire system through assisted convection so cool air sucks in through the sides and then hot air rises out the motherboard is on one side the GPU instead of just slotting in like a normally wood is connected using a riser and then there's a PCIe ribbon that folds over to the other side the 16 gigs of ram are easy to replace if you want to put in an nvme drive there is an m2 slot behind the motherboard and there's two two and half inch drive bays but if you want to replace any of this stuff the motherboard the CPU the GPU just about everything I mean it's not going to be easy it's a pretty cramped case but it can be done so it has to be honest when I first saw this thing at CES I mean it looks pretty cool and it's super small and it's very quiet but I wasn't sure how the performance would be because it's super packed in there and a GTX 1080 and a 7700 K get really hot now these components have been benchmarked a million times so I'm not going to bore you with too many numbers but the performance was as expected for the CPU and GPU combination fan noise on idle is pretty quiet it's not completely silent like a Mac Pro but you can't really hear it on maximum load and we're not talking with the game here we're talking like the stress test it's definitely audible but considering the horsepower of the system has it's still very quiet playing games on this thing is a blast my g-sync monitor is 1440p so that's the resolution I play on even poorly optimized games run well on this thing because of how powerful the hardware is and which are three still one of the most demanding games on the market right now runs nicely and this is what hair works on and even when playing a game like this the fan still pretty quiet the next thing I did was overclock it and this is where I was most impressed the 7700 K was able to hit 5 gigahertz comfortably and the GTX 1080i was able to get it running at around 1900 migrated the CPU temperatures were a little warm during these stress tests but this is a solid overclock and honestly I think I could have gone further but I got sucked into playing some games so I usually play overwatch on low settings for max frame rates but here I'm running it on ultra graphics at 1440p with the CPU at 5 gigahertz and the GPU over 1900 megahertz even after hours of gaming temperatures were comfortable system was stable and everything was still quiet the overclocking potential in the system is really impressive video editing is also really nice on this thing it's fast and it's quiet I work with 5k footage and this thing does a fantastic job with it for VR the coarser one obviously handles very really nicely the gtx 1070 and the 1080 are well above the recommended specs for VR titles right now and because the chassis is so small you can just leave it out without being too much of an eyesore so I had the system sitting in my living room for two weeks in my wife didn't care because it's small and quiet the performance on this thing is awesome and it's not just fast component because anyone can just stick fast components into a case but they have it properly cooled so there's no throttling and there's still room for overclocking and the whole while they're doing in a small case that's super quiet now in terms of pricing the base model starts at $1,800 but the one I like the most is the Corsair one Pro the one with the GTX 1080 and that costs twenty two hundred dollars which is a lot of money for a desktop PC now some people are gonna be like why would you buy this thing when you just build your own custom PC for like seven dollars but actually want to know how much does it actually cost to build a 12 liter ITX system with these specs so 100 PC part picker loaded up the configurator now you got to pony up for a 12 liter case that can fit a GG X 1080 there's not many of them and they're not cheap once you get all the parts I'm coming in at around $1,800 and that doesn't include the second rad that you would need to water cool the GPU once you get one of those and a maglev fan to kind of cool everything down the way they did it it's going to be like 1950 or more most likely more so when you compare the price for $2,200 that Corsair built it they're going to slap a 2 year warranty on it it's engineered properly it's not that much of a premium we're talking like 10 12 percent more than 1950 that's pretty solid so if you're looking for a small ITX system I would highly recommend checking this thing out I mean I check systems aren't for everyone but if you are take a look at this one because you can custom build your own but it won't be nearly as like complete as this like coming out box obviously but building something that has this kind of thermal performance with this kind of fan noise is very difficult if you do it yourself in this form factor that's the end of this video hope you guys enjoyed it some of you liked it something you loved it see you guys next time