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well guys we're gonna review a computer today we're gonna review what's probably one of if not the smallest pre-built system that you can actually buy and here it is today's video is sponsored by master up in the Sennheiser PC 37 X professional-grade gaming headset Sennheiser is known for its legendary sound quality and now you can have the best of both worlds without compromising mic quality making it the perfect choice for gamers and professionals alike the detachable ten-foot cable and 3.5 millimeter plugs that share maximum compatibility while running your own amplifiers without taking up an additional USB slot to learn more about the sennheiser pc 37 X's for mass drop click the link in the description below so I don't know if the Pelican is a part of the actual retail shipping experience but obviously they want the review unit to arrive in text that's because what's in here I think it's truly epic so anyway inside of here what you're gonna find is a box in a box I mean we're always appreciative to have extra Pelican cases hey that actually really is pretty small box in a box isn't it so obviously this is the Corsair one we talked about this at CES and we got a heads up that one was on the way for us to take a look at now this is technically the second version of likes like a v2 if you all like a revision of the original Corsair one which came out in 2018 in fact of course they reached out to me last year and was like do you want to take a look at one and I was kind of like man that really I mean I did some ads for at night that was a cool PC and all but I just I guess I underestimated how small it truly is because when I saw this see yes I was like wait a minute you got all that in there yeah I'd love to take a look at it so this is what they're dubbing they're convection assisted cooling what we talked about at CES is the fact that this basically has a single fan at the top that pulls in air to see how it just keeps getting smaller it's like one of those little Russian dolls like now I don't think I might do a full teardown because we took a look at this already at CES with one that was opened up and I don't want to mess with anything prior to us getting kind of our testing numbers and stuff because what I really want today's video to sort of focus on is the thermals because that's the challenge with anything small form-factor is the thermal capabilities of it so what's happening here is you have two radiators on the side one for the CPU one for the GPU and there's no fans on them at all the only fan in here is actually on the top which I don't even think so 140 millimeter I think it's kind of a proprietary size but I could be wrong on that that is pulling air up which is getting convection assisted so you have the transfer of heat moving through the rad and then being assisted by both the natural convection of heat and heat rises and all of that plus the fan pulling heat through or note the heat out of the case so I'm really curious as to how one fan is going to perform with the limitation of both volume and just how crowded it is in there is not a lot of open space I feel a mod incoming some Hawaii do in terms of specs on this one this is the corsair i 160 this is the 9900 k with a 28 ECI the i-140 has a 9700 k with a r-tx 2080 and then there's the pro which is coming out a little bit later this year which has a silver case and that's going to have an X 299 micro ITX board or mini ITX board built by asrock that actually uses quad channels so dim memory what I want to test today is the thermals on this because they gave some pretty aggressive figures in terms of what to expect temperature-wise I think we're expecting to see somewhere around 55 C on the GPU and I think we're looking at somewhere in the 70s or low 80s on the CPU I have to double check that figure these are pre-configured systems though these are not bare-bones you can't buy them and put your own stuff in there because there's so much proprietary happening in here and when it comes to the assembly they figured like look these are these are three SKUs we offer here are the specs of them and that's the way that they are so you can't pre-configure it you can upgrade the CPU if you want it like I do there's nothing upgrade to with this at 900k but if you bought the 9700 version you could upgrade it to a 9900 K because it is just a drop-in cpu nothing special there so let's do this let's fire it up let's get our software installed it's good some games in here and then let's see what the temperatures are really like the computer and we don't normally have the problem of computers being too small around here well I don't think people realize just how small this computer is I mean okay that's the box for a 20 80 TI to put it in perspective that's in there somewhere right so we'll just leave that right there as a constant reminder does that put it in perspective just how small this chassis is okay so we found out has 32 gigabytes of course their memory in there but that's their low profile ddr4 and of course power profile is all set to default I was just checking that it's set to balanced right now it's not on you know high performance or anything this is completely one percent out of the box settings I've also got hardware monitor open here because I can check all things fans are at zero rpm that's the first thing we noticed because if you look at the IQ software this is how you control the Corsair one there's two pumps obviously there's two separate loops in here is the GPU a i/o and a CPU a i/o and you can see what the RPMs are there can't adjust the speed as far as I could tell our coolant temperatures which is actually great to see because now we'll know exactly when our loops are saturated those temps stop going up then we'll know okay it's fully saturated no more having to guess based on the actual temperature of the diet so the other thing you're gonna notice here is the fan by default it's set to zero rpm because what we found we've already done some testing on this we're going to demonstrate it when the CPU coolant reaches about 42 C that is when the fan starts to ramp up it's a 1500 rpm fan and it hits max 1500 at approximately 46 C on the coolant temp and doesn't start to come on until 42 so that four degrees range that 4 C range is from zero to max now you might think that's gonna be really jarring right the fans just gonna kick on and just in an amount of time and how long it takes the coolant to increase is actually not that long it can take minutes to go from 42 to 46 C I like OCC T for a couple reasons one it's free you can go and download it right now so if you want to see how your temperatures and your loops are your air colors or whatever compared to this download it right now and follow along with your 9900 Kay please don't use like an 80 700 K or a 2 X 299 platform or a rise in CPU to compare your temperatures they're not directly comparable so let's go and run this for 10 minutes and see how it does immediately the temperatures shot up to 71 72 60s and 70s on the core it's gonna go all over the place based on the testing but if you look at the CPU coolant you can see the rate at which it climbs is really not that fast it's at 35.9 see on the coolant okay so we've been going for 11 minutes and 37 seconds we know the loop has met has hit its max because well it's actually starting to come down slightly but forty six point eight forty six point nine we've been sitting there now for several minutes with the coolant temperature is increasing so if we look at our maxes over here we're currently sitting in the 70s with only a few C Delta 81 was the hot or 83 was the highest and then down into the 70s and high seventies low 80s TJ max on this is 105 C on the course so if that tells us we've got anywhere between 20 to 25 C Headroom on this which is pretty amazing and if you look at the current temps with the test still running these are these are much more indicative of what the real temps are not those spikes but again the coolant temperature has equalized it's really kind of stopped going up if anything it started coming down slightly because that fan curve is now kind of waving like this because it's speeding up and slowing down a couple hundred rpm at the most and these temperatures are 100% in my opinion within check now the other thing to talk about though is the fact that we're only hitting 4.4 4.3 in all core and it bounces around four or five four six on some the 5 gigahertz that's single core every now and then so you can ignore the 5 gigs this is this is not indicative of what's happy with the CPU this is so if we look at this right here let's go and just take a random core let's look at oh and the GPU loop yeah you can see it came down in temperatures because the GPU loop is actually on a separate loop but it's controlled by the same fan so as that fan ramped up the cool attempts came down so this is when the temps first came up when the fan was off once the fan turned on you can see it came down and then equalized and all the cores pretty much paint the same picture this very small independent loop for the 1900 K and here is doing its job and maintaining the boost clocks that we were expecting to see because 4 3 4 4 all course boosts clock or turbo clock is what we expect to see now let's do the exact same thing with the GPU and we're going to do that we're using superposition and 1080p extreme a lot of people don't realize this 1080p extreme is harder to run than 4k optimized so we're gonna run this one until the temperature on the GPU stops going up I can't run on windowed mode on this for some reason and I don't want to keep going back and forth because when you tap out it acts weird then you get a weird overlay with Windows so we're gonna just let it go until the GPM you're stopped climbing and then fine with that number is so it looks like we maxed out about 64 see now this is gonna be just like the CPU where the it takes time for that fan to react it takes so long for this fan to speed up that 64 seems to be about where it stopped it look we're starting to go that back down to 63 okay so it's Baddeley 60 and 61 or having a fight to the death right now it can't seem to go any lower but it won't go any higher than 61 and we've been looping now for a while so we're pretty sure we've hit that equilibrium here's what's weird about that when we ran it earlier it was 58 see the ambient temperature in the room right now is 20 see balancing between 20 and 21 it hasn't changed so we're gonna do right now is we're gonna go ahead and download another game and we are gonna see what happens in terms of fps of that FFF so of course we're gonna check out Resident Evil 2 which is a very new title now all the settings too are pretty much set to pretty damn close to max if you go to graphics we're in a windowed 1440 mode rendering modes and normal a lot of weird settings of this game but our refresh rate is set to 60 because that's what the monitor is but vsync is off and frame rates variable so we're not locking it as you can see we were getting 178 FPS in the game right now 56 seems to be kind of where we're sort of balancing out if we go in here and we actually set fps to limit with vsync then you'll see we get a ridiculous amount of temperature drop but as you can see the GPU usage went from 99 all the way down to what 50 s and because of that the temp starts dropping and it actually rests approximately in the mid 40s when it comes to the game we saw 40 C actually at one point and there's a little lesson for you there and how vsync if you turn it on you can get a pretty significant reduction in temperatures and power usage he's pointing and there is at the cop was at a worker when someone just points into a dark room as scary noises would you just go Wow okay well temperatures are still about 54 so I would call that pretty freakin reasonable if you ask me but I'm gonna go ahead and save this game for later because I want to enjoy it so our CPU clock though during the game as you can see was pretty much locked at 4.7 that was on all core verified over here by hardware monitor clearly the CPU is not having any problems with temperatures in terms of gaming not that I would have expected it to okay so the corsair 1i 160 it definitely performs as you would expect it's a 9900 k that gives you all the full functionality of it it's not like some desktop version it's got a full sized in video reference 20 80 TI with a custom built water block and custom built water cooling loops i've got a single 500 gigabyte nvme drive i think it's actually a 480 480 gig nvme drive and a 2 terabyte hard drive as well as you know 600 watt sfx power supply you've got your LP x ram in there Aldi it's all off-the-shelf stuff what's really kind of custom about this quite honestly is the enclosure the chassis that was built specifically for this temperatures really not bad considering the form factor we really fought hard to control the temperatures in our 9900 K and that small ghost s1 build that we did fill will tell you man we pulled our hair out trying to get that all just dialed in and this one is doing it perfectly fine out of the box with a single fan it comes at a premium though obviously $3,600 $3,600 for this it is definitely more expensive than the sum of its parts a lot of people at this point would say that's stupid just build your own to wear that I would say in Corsair would actually agree build your own there's nothing against build your own this obviously has its intended market and if that price carries you away and you don't care about the form factor then that's definitely not you so that's where you guys basically sound off if you think it's too expensive it doesn't really change anything they've got a more expensive one coming out at about five thousand dollars which is the I 180 pro which we talked about at CES which features a X 299 Mini ITX board that uses sodimm quad channel another family little disappointed about is the fact that they went with a Z 370 chipset rather than a Z 390 there are some improvements to Wireless with Z 390 and a couple of other key features with like Bluetooth and stuff like that what you're actually missing out on whether you use it or not the fact that you're paying this type of price I feel like it's a feature that should have been included not sure why they went into the Z 370 instead of a 90 X is e 390 I'm probably gonna also tear this apart and I might do another part you guys tell me if you want to see that where I upgrade the fan to go with more Cooling's and I think I want to change out that hard drive for a 2 terabyte SSD I feel like for the price they could have done that and still made money on the deal so those are kind of my two or three complaints about the thing but other than that it seems to live up to all the expectations they gave us at CES in terms of temperatures and performance and I'm really ecstatic Stu 9999 20x fares in this form factor all right guys sound off in the comments below thanks for hanging out with us while we took a look at this corsair 1i 160 link in description below if you guys want to go and check it out and as always I will see you guys in the next one