- This is the Corsair One,
and even though I'm usually more,
shall we say, into custom built systems,
pre-built or not,
this is an impressively stout piece of kit
given its size, cooling, and noise level.
So much so that it's something that I've always wanted
to replicate with a custom-built PC.
And today might be the day.
Behind me is the Louqe RAW S1.
It's not exactly a Corsair One.
For instance, it relies on air cooling
rather than AIO liquid coolers.
And it's actually just a case
that you can fill with whatever hardware you want,
ah there we, ooh, but it's apparently got the cojones
to fit full fat top of the line gear.
And today we're gonna do pretty much exactly that.
5900X, 3080, this tiny package.
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I am really excited to see this.
Honestly, for how good the Corsair One looks,
and for how well it works,
I'm surprised it's taken this long
for someone to make a Corsair One-a-like.
Now how close did they get in terms of the size though?
Because that's what Corsair did
that's pretty freaking magic.
Wow, darn close.
Almost as though their engineers set out
with the target of building something the size
of the Corsair One. (laughs)
Whatever resemblance they bear to each other externally,
though, these are very different products.
Make no mistake.
The Corsair One, even though Corsair
is a case manufacturer, is not available as a case.
And a big part of the reason for that
is that it is not very user-friendly to build in.
So even though Louqe, I've been told it's pronounced,
did go and build something that obviously achieves
a very similar form factor,
whether or not they manage to make it user-friendly
is an entirely separate matter.
I will say this much.
It definitely doesn't have the (tapping) fit and finish
of the Corsair One,
but the Corsair One's also really expensive.
Also doesn't have the IO of the Corsair One.
You got your front USB 3, you got your front HDMI
for that VR revolution that's definitely about to happen.
(David laughs) (laughs) Be nice, David.
Whereas on the Louqe,
there's just a power button in the front.
And then you've got two USB Type-Cs,
only one of which is actually connected to anything,
and they're at the back.
Wait a minute, where the hell is my motherboard?
Oh, it's one of those, it's on the bottom.
That worked great, iFixit being the sponsor today,
and Louqe making a case that you need a Torx to open.
Thank you for that.
In fairness, Louqe does include this,
so that you can open the torque screws,
but like it would be better to just have a Phillips head
like every other computer case on the face of the planet.
So it's 329, but it comes with a Gen 4 riser,
which means you can run your Gen 4 graphics card
at full speed, which is anywhere from a 60 to a $90 value.
So it's still pretty expensive,
but these small run small form factor cases
are often priced higher than you might think.
This is pretty cool.
The reason you've got these clips here
is that this is actually a modular IO system.
You could also replace your power button.
I mean, at least if something broke you can replace it.
- [Jake] Like as long as the power button isn't like glued
into the case, I'm happy. - Ah there we go.
All right.
Got a nice orange accent.
Are you guys sucking up?
Jokes about infinite FPS aside,
this thing is freaking sweet.
So it uses a high temp extruded jacket
with a twinax shielding,
silver plated solid copper conductors inside
that as a complete package can apparently
exceed the PCI Express Gen 4 spec, nevermind meet it.
I like the high temp resistance
'cause we're gonna put a RTX 3080 in here (chuckles) so
(tapping) gonna need that.
Nice and low profile too, that's really nice.
Enough about that though,
let's meet the rest of our components
starting with the ROG Strix X570-I Gaming.
Now this isn't, technically speaking,
the flagship small form factor board in ASUS's lineup
for Socket AM4, but the reason we went with it
is that the Crosshair VIII Impact is actually DTX
or like a longer version of ITX.
So it's about this much longer, which in a case like this,
as you can plainly see, would not freaking fit.
Of course, being an enthusiast board
with an 8 + 2 phase,
not to mention surprisingly well-cooled power delivery,
and support for PCI Express Gen 4,
we wanted to take full advantage of that
with an AMD Ryzen 9 5,900X.
12 freaking cores, 24 freaking threads,
basically the best performance for gaming on the market.
And assuming you can get one at MSRP,
it's more than $100 cheaper than Intel's 12-core 10920X.
But then again,
Intel has yet to release an 11th Gen Extreme Edition.
Are they even gonna bother at this point?
- [Jake] I don't know.
- I don't know, that's a little awkward.
For RAM, we've gone with a relatively unusual choice for us.
A lot of the time we like to go, you know,
RGB blinged out all over the place,
but instead we've gone
with Corsair's LPX 3,600 megahertz CL16
in a 2 by 16 gig configuration.
And the reason for that is the LP in LPX
stands for low profile.
This way, we get all the speed that we need
without compromising on clearance for our CPU cooler.
This is the NH-L12S, this is Noctua's solution
for people who need a slim cooler
that can fit in a really low profile case,
but still want that big chungus cooling performance.
So it uses a slim version of their popular NF-A series fan.
And then this is interesting.
By default, it actually comes with the fan configured
to take air from around the CPU socket and blow it up,
which on many of these types of cases
is typically intended to be used as an exhaust.
But for us, we're actually going to turn it around,
so it'll act as an intake for the case, but not yet.
First, we actually need
to remove a couple of pieces of the motherboard.
It's all minor stuff,
just this little cosmetic facia piece right here,
and that should be good enough.
Now, unfortunately, Louqe didn't release it in time
for us to request parts for this video,
but fortunately for you,
they actually did a grand CPU cooler test for this case,
and it turns out the Noctua NH-L12 Ghost S1 edition,
there's actually made for one of their other cases
is the best cooler for this case as well.
And the main difference with that one
is that it's a little bit shorter,
and then uses a 92 millimeter on the bottom.
And then you can add a slim 120 millimeters to the top,
so you get that push-pull action.
But this one is still pretty darn good.
So we're not too worried about it.
Let's get some thermal compound on here.
- [Jake] So is your new place's backyard big?
- Oh, hold on, we're video making, just a sec.
(Jake laughing)
We're just like chitchating here.
I had bought a new place, so Jake's like,
"Hey, you know, when COVID's done,
we could all have like a backyard barbecue there,"
and yes, I'm super down.
We could totally do that for our Christmas party.
We haven't had our Christmas party yet.
- [Jake] Yeah, we might be able to do it in like August.
- It'll be my birthday, Christmas party.
- [David] What are you turning? 42?
(David and Jake laughing)
- Let's get our fan in here.
There we go, now you might be wondering,
well, gee Linus, if it performs better
if you have another slim on the top,
why don't you just do that?
Okay, we thought of that, unfortunately,
because of how low profile the case is,
you can't fit another one.
Now let's throw in our SSD.
Just like the rest of the system,
we've gone PCI Express Gen 4 here
with Sabrent's Rocket 4+, wait a minute,
this isn't the QLC one is it?
No, this is the like baller fast one.
- [Jake] Yeah, that's the one that has the new controller.
- Oh sick!
It's fully capable of saturating a Gen 4 link.
And because it uses high quality NAND
and a newer controller,
it's gonna perform well in basically any situation.
Wow, I didn't even notice the second fan down here
for the chip set.
What that hell, I love it, yeah it's a super cool board.
Weird motherboards screws, they're like super long,
even though the standoffs are kind of a normal length,
but- - But they go deep.
- Yeah, it works fine.
And that's it,
like, that's how much space you got ladies and gentlemen,
it's freaking tight.
Of course, since Corsair makes basically everything,
even when you don't buy their system,
they still find a way to get ya,
we're using a Corsair SF750 power supply,
it's 80 PLUS Platinum certified, it's fully modular.
It's super small, 750 watts did I mentioned that already?
We're gonna go ahead and pop this bad boy right about here.
Jake informs me that I put the power supply
in too early because my exhaust fan goes here,
and that I will have to take the power supply out
in order to install it.
I reject his reality and I substitute my own.
So I'm going to take this bracket off.
(Jake and Linus laughing)
And try to mount the fan and put it back in.
Gotta have fun, you build enough computers,
you gotta find your own new challenges.
Yeah this puppy can probably go back here.
Oh, I like that, actually.
So the way the power supply's mounted,
it goes right up against the side,
which means it's a little easier
for it to grab that nice, fresh air.
And it gives you some space behind the power supply
to stash these cables.
The bad news is I'm gonna have a real hard time
accessing the front panel connectors, you know,
for the power switch, power LED,
hard drive LED, reset switch.
The good news is there's only a power switch.
There's literally not even a power LED on the case.
So let's go ahead and let's see if we can get this in here.
Just gotta kinda give it a little bendy bend,
and then I just realized,
I was thinking where's the front panel USB 3 right?
Like we have a front panel connector.
No, no, no, no, this cable just plugs
into the back of your motherboard if you have a Type-C
and then that's a pass through.
That's not amazing.
Now let's find out if I can install this fan on this thing.
And then somehow this feels like one of those
like brain teaser things.
Wait, which goes on this way. - Jesus Christ.
(laughs) Is it set up as an exhaust?
Did you do that part properly?
- I don't know, are you exhausted yet?
- No, I can handle a little more.
- (laughs) Wait, crap, did I put this on the right way?
Yeah, I did, okay, Jesus.
Not bad, eh?
- [David] Yeah, that looks pretty good!
- Graphics card time?
- Sure. - As for why we went
with an RTX 3080 TUF from ASUS,
Louqe has a list of cards that fit.
This 3080 and actually the TUF 3090 fit.
Oh, I'm sorry, did you want more of a story there?
If it fits, it sits? (laughs)
Is that good enough?
Okay, but in all seriousness,
the reason we went 3080 was because we were trying
to match the spec of the Corsair One
that actually was just released with Ryzen Fifth Gen
and RTX 3080 as the top spec.
You know what's kinda crazy about this thing?
While the build quality is just not up to par
with the Corsair One, the ease of use, great!
This was such an easy build
for a small form factor.
- Right? - Yeah.
I love it, they did just a bang up job of it.
I mean, even this,
this weird little like thumb nut thing down here
that I was trying to figure out earlier,
and I was like, "Oh what the heck is this thing for?"
Check this out!
So you just slide the card into the PCI Express slot,
and there it goes, tighten this down.
Boom! Your card's sort of held in place.
(rig jiggling)
That's awesome!
All right. - I (beep) my pants
walking home one time.
(David and Jake laughing)
- I'm just gonna go ahead and plug this in.
We've gotten a little off topic here.
We gotta turn on the power supply now
because once the case is slid over here,
we're not gonna have access to that button anymore.
And that's it, that's the computer!
- That's dense. - Look at this.
It's like, this feels like a sci-fi movie or some crap.
It's like, you gotta pull it out,
and you gotta (imitates gears crunching)
and put it in this way,
and then. (pitch lowering) (explosion fires)
Of course, we gotta take a look at the thermals
before we declare this thing a victory here,
because while the case does have a pretty similar amount
of speed holes compared to the Corsair One,
it kinda seems like there's more aluminum left.
And it's air-cooled, so let's give it a shot here.
So I guess it goes in this way,
'cause that's the power button there.
- [Jake] Yep, and there's like rails that it slides in.
(Linus groans)
Um, um, um, oh wow, I nailed that.
- [Jake] And then just be careful of the riser
as it comes down. - Go Linus.
Wow, and it's not just easy to build,
it's easy to build without it being just like impossible
to have the cable sticking into the fans and stuff.
- [Jake] The power button, oh my God.
- Oh, is the power button a little, oh, okay.
So there are some quality of life improvements
they could make, I guess.
- [Jake] He just rusted the weight of the entire computer
on the power button.
- Yeah, and look how well it...
(button clicking)
Oh no, it's good, it's good, I think it's good.
Okay, so plug that in there.
So here, I'm showing you the ingenious (snorts)
front IO system.
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Get the thing in there. - Try the other side?
- Okay, we're good.
There's our super good ease of use front IO access.
There you go.
I mean, it doesn't look bad from the back.
We've seen cases like this before.
I mean back SilverStone's first RAVEN
had the motherboard rotated 90 degrees,
and you plugged everything in on the top,
and it went down a thing and out the back,
So, I mean it's all right.
I think the color could be a little bit better
in terms of, you know, look on the desk
compared to the Corsair One, but full marks ease of use.
If we hadn't just been like bull(beep) be around
for the last three hours, we could have been done this
in I don't know what,
45 minutes? - A half an hour.
Yeah. - Like,
it's a pretty easy build.
- [Jake] If you had everything mounted to the motherboard,
you would be done in like five minutes if you really tried.
- I can't tell if it's on or not yet.
- [Jake] Did you break it or something?
- Let me just tilt this down on my nice soft place to rest
at lttstore.com.
- [Jake] Suffocate the GPU a little bit.
- Huh, oh, (claps) there's your problem.
(Jake laughing) Woo!
- [Jake] I know how to build the computer.
- Well, this isn't building a computer.
This is plugging in the display connector to a computer.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
32 gigs RAM, CPU's picked up, SSD's picked up, great news.
Let's just go ahead and set the DOCP 3,600 megahertz.
Firing up our game now.
One key difference between the Louqe RAW S1
and the Corsair One that we're kinda sorta comparing it to
is the airflow path.
So with the Corsair, you're drawing everything
in these two radiators on the side, 'kay,
and then it all goes up the top kind of
probably maybe inspired by the trashcan Mac Pro.
With the RAW S1, it's a totally different airflow path
because the top is actually mostly enclosed.
So you've got these open sides,
so your graphics card pulls in this nice fresh air
from outside, mostly,
'cause it's kinda kicking that hot air around inside,
and it's gonna intermingle a little bit.
And then over on the other side, we're using our CPU
and our power supply as an intake.
And then we've got this single Noctua fan
exhausting out the back.
So I'm expecting a lot of heat to come out here,
and that could be a bit of a cooling bottleneck for us.
- [Jake] Is it getting louder?
- It's not bad at all, actually.
- Oh, I suck. - Chainsaw, chainsaw.
- I suck, I suck.
Insufficient fuel? Wait, what just happened?
- [David] You might have to wait a little bit
because it recharges.
- Oh does it?
♪ Doo doo doo doo there we go ♪ - Up.
- So yeah, change out the first one.
Get him.
- Coach David's helping me out!
- I'm on Fiverr. - Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow!
Oh I thought I got it. - Oh my God.
- [Linus] Curse you. Oh no I'm in trouble now.
Come on, come on, come on!
- Nice. - Nice, nice.
- We are maxed out at 78 degrees, 79,
just over 80 on our hottest CCD.
CPU-reported temperatures are just over 80.
That is extremely respectable for a game
that runs at such a high FPS, like "DOOM Eternal".
As for our GPU, wow! Not bad!
87 tops for our hotspot, that's super respectable!
Memory up around 90.
Dang. - Damn!
- It's not even crazy loud.
Ooh, it's warm though.
Wow, that exhaust is as anticipated, pretty toasty.
But other than the kind of green color,
I think I'd love to see some different editions
to this case in different finishes and different colors,
I think this thing's will win.
So easy to build though. - Yeah.
- Like nothing else quite like it.
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- That was a sick build, I know that one.
It had a TITAN RTX.