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hey guys and welcome back to hardware unbox I know a lot of you guys out there love your Corsair stuff whether it's your keyboards and mice or your power supplies and memory but today we've got something a little bit different than the company this is the Corsair one their new small form-factor gaming PC and to be honest this is probably the best small form-factor gaming PC that I reviewed so far it's a truly excellent product and you'll get to see just how good courses engineering is when we open up this bad boy in just a little bit anyway we'll start by talking about as always the hardware inside the Corsair 1r there's a number of configuration options available the base model comes with an intel core i7 7700 processor with a gtx 1070 GPU inside but my review 'not here 7700 k so they've given you the overclocking ability in this particular model and also GT x 1080 graphics in a chassis that's just this large and for those that want to spend a bit more money and you can afford to splurge out a bit there is a GT X 1080 TI model of the course that one available through courses website so of course it is definitely not holding back when it comes to the hardware inside this system you'll also find 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory in all Corsair 1 units and MSI Z 270 Mini ITX motherboard and 80 plus gold certified sfx power supply and SSD options from corsair ranging from 240 up to 960 gigabytes Maariv unit here comes to the Corsair force la 960 gig drive so top-of-the-line in my particular reviewnit that will only give the best of hardware in box to check out of course the Corsair one looks fantastic on the outside this is one of the few small form-factor gaming pcs I've seen the truly looks excellent whether it's sitting on your desk or in your home theater setup this is mostly down to the beautiful aluminium panels of their views all around this device it's bead blasted with a matte black finish it looks fantastic it gives off a premium look to this device and I really like those sort of bins that you get along the top there's a top 140 mm fan that sort of exhausts most of the air out out of the top here and those fins just make it seem like this device is powerful and requires a lot of cooling when that's not necessarily the case both the left and right sides are perforated here for the intake to the CPU and GPU coolers and along the front you will see those beautiful channels where the blue LED light strip emanates through courses they didn't give this an RGB LED strip because they wanted to give off the proper aesthetic for their small form-factor PC the aqua blue color here makes it seem cool and quiet and that is certainly the case when you power on this device for the first time Corsair says this is a VR ready system which is why you will find hdmi 2.0 and USB 3.0 type-a on the front of this device and if you suite around to the back well you get all the i/o from that MSI motherboard so you'll get a further three USB 3.1 gen2 on ports two USB 2.0 ports where you keyboard a mouse USB 3.1 gen2 type-c Gigabit Ethernet five 3.5 mm audio jack sphere surround sound analog audio plus optical s/pdif and we get two antenna connectors for the AO 2.11 AC Wi-Fi solution and of course triple display setups are possible place to to display point one point four connectors and an hdmi 2.0 port which are all connected internally to the graphics card speaking of the internals it's really worth opening up the course I want to take a look at just how awesome this device is engineered in the Corsair one Pro models which come with the GTX 1080 or higher both the CPU and GPU are liquid cooled with closed-loop solutions here on the CPU side there's no additional fan only the 140 millimeter fan on the top of the unit is drawing air through the system to cool that radiator on the side panel and on the GPU side if you get that GTX 2 native model that's liquid cooled as well with an additional blower fan that assists with the cooling solution here if you're up for the entry-level model with the GTX 970 it is just air-cooled but it's great to see that on the higher-end models especially those who buy one with the GTX 1080p I in it then you get the added cooling benefit of the 240 millimeter slimline radiator here pass the best aspect to the Corsair one is new great ability everything in this system is an off-the-shelf component to the motherboard CPU and RAM to the SFX power supplied the SSD and even the graphics card Corso tells me there's enough room for an 11 inch triple slot graphics card inside the one if you do up to still use that 240 millimeter are close of liquid core after you upgrade you'll be reduced to just two slots here but the fact that the graphics card is even upgradeable in this system is far better than a lot of other small form-factor gaming PC's that use either sold it on GPUs or you know your laptop style GPUs inside in this system everything is user upgradeable let's just say in the future you know Intel releases a new CPU platform you need to upgrade the motherboard you can simply swap out the mini ITX board in here for an entirely new platform the i/o shield pops out on the back everything is good to go and that's one of the great things about the Corsair 1 because let's be honest you're going to have to spend a bit more than usual to get the one chassis you know there's always that pre-built premium on the price point but the fact that in the future you can reuse this chassis upgrade anything inside the device really reduces the impact of that extra premium that you'll have to pay as we're looking at off-the-shelf components in my review note again 2 X 1080 graphics and a core i7 7700 K the corsair one performs exactly as you expect for those components in a gaming system check out all of our previous coverage on the gtx 1080 the core i7 and 7700 k and all of that because well the corsair one performs exactly as you will see across all the benchmarks we've done on hardware unboxed in the past it's a great gaming system with the gtx 1080 in it for 1440p even 4k gaming depending on the quality settings I was mostly gaming on my pleb quality 1080p TV I've been quite upgraded to 4k yet but gaming at 1080p on a GTX 1080 is fantastic you know you're pushing about 60fps in pretty much every situation and that's exactly what you want to see from the Corsair one more impressive than the performance though is the cooling solution this guy runs remarkably quiet for the size of the unit at idle the system is very very quiet if you place it next to your monitor you will be able to hear a bit of Rumble a bit of hum from those closest liquid cores and sand on the top but if you put this you know a meat or two away it's pretty much silent during regular operation after firing up a game it takes almost 15 minutes for the close of liquid workers to heat up and even then the system isn't that loud during load again it's on your desk you'll be able to hear it but if you're playing some in-game audio and speakers you'll pretty easily wash out the sounds from this device and you know put it on the floor a little bit away and again the corsair one is pretty silent in that regard as for cooling performance thanks to those it's liquid cools in the corsair one this system runs pretty darn cool for such a small and compact system during the lengthy session of watchdogs to the cpu is hovering around the 68 to 72 degrees celsius mark and that's impressive consuming there's no fan directly attached to the radiator in here but even more impressive the GPU sitting at 54 degrees celsius no matter what I did that's a very solid result and gives you plenty of room for overclocking which we'll touch on in just a moment if you do fire up out of 60 for system stability test I managed to push the CPU up to around the 83 degrees Celsius mark which reduces a little bit the overclocking Headroom on the 7700 K but nevertheless you know that's a pretty decent result considering those close of liquid cores and only this single 140 millimeter fan on the top of the unit as for overclocking on the CPU side I was able to push up the CPU to 4.9 gigahertz pretty easily but the CPU did run pretty hot at just over ninety degrees Celsius I didn't really want to run over ninety degrees C so I pulled the CPU clock speed down to more like 4.8 gigahertz on the 7700 K and then the CPU is sitting more it's sort of your 86 to 87 degrees Celsius I think that's a pretty good result considering the cooling solution inside as for the GPU you can do pretty much whatever you like because there's so much thermal Headroom in this system I pushed plus 190 megahertz on the GTX 1080s core clock and around plus 170 on the memory the GPU is then running constantly at over 2,000 megahertz no matter you know what sort of situation we're throwing at it and that only added one degree Celsius to the temperature of the GPU so pull NTR overclocking Headroom in this guy you can basically push it up to the limits of the GTX 1080 and getting an extra 10 to 11 percent more performance out of it is no slouch and it's you know with that making the system anyway or hot or anything like that that's a really solid result for this very flexible and well suited to gaming a small form-factor system so the coarser one looks amazing on the outside it's really well engineered on the inside with a fantastic cooling solution great performance and everything is used upgradeable so the thing that you probably asking yourself now is how much does it cost to get my hands on my own Corsair 1 unit well if you're after the entry-level model with its gtx 1070 GPU and core i7 7700 cpu it will set you back around 1,800 US dollars over in australia like me around $2,600 redos I did quickly whip up a system on you a just to see what it would cost to build you know your own system with similar hardware and it came to around 1400 US dollars so a $400 price premium for the Corsair 1 again it will be a bit steep to pay for those two the more keen on building their own system but you have to understand there's a lot of people out there who can't be bothered with that they just want a nice looking pre-built system and the Corsair 1 you know it's user upgradeable you get that fantastic engineering and cooling solution on the inside there's some people you know it could be worth paying that price premium to get the Corsair one unit at this price point there's a similar price premium on the reviewnit that I received to review so this particular model here costs $2,300 with the GTX 1080 and one terabyte each hard drive on the inside or just over $3,000 deuce I think it's three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars in Australia for this model again $400 price premium over an equivalent model with the same hardware so again you know not too bad for considering the hardware and the excellent chassis that you're getting here I really love the course I wants one of my favorite small form-factor gaming PC's and but one of course is first attempts of making a system like this it's a really solid offering anyway that's it for this review of the Corsair one that's listed by the system in the description below if you're interested don't forget to check out the written review on tech spot comm and we will catch you in the next one Oh