Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
Boy, do we have an awesome video for you guys today.
This is our review on what we think of Corsair's One.
Let's do this.
So, this is the Corsair One and it is an absolute beast, all the way from its build chassis
to what's inside it to its performance.
But let's start from the basics - the build and what this thing looks and feels like.
Now, just bear in mind, that this thing is a full blown gaming PC.
And a gaming PC, well, it is just that.
It is a very, very, very powerful one.
More on the specs a little bit later but speaking about that, it is so, so small.
It is, well, living room console size (just maybe a little bit taller).
The whole exterior build of this PC is made out of metal.
This thing is very, very heavy.
It feels premium and as it should be for the price tag.
Now, the model that we have here is 2800 British Pounds and that is around 3000 Dollars.
This is the most expensive One that they make coming in with these specs.
We've got an i7-77k, GTX 1080 Ti, 32 gigs of RAM that is DDR4, we've got 480 gigabyte
M.2 SSD and then a 2 terabyte HDD for all of those games.
If you're buying this, you're going to be gaming on it.
They do make a model with an i7-7700k with a 1070 GPU with 16 gigs of RAM - that is the
cheapest model coming in at £1799.
I'll drop all of the links to the pricing down there in the description.
Back to the build quality though.
So, as I've mentioned, the whole thing is made out of metal, all the way from the heat
sink at the top to the awesome design down the front to the, well, triangles cut out
down the side.
It is very angular, it's beautiful to hold, it's beautiful to look at - everything about
it is beautiful.
The size - it's amazing.
As well as that, down the front of the PC, you have two blue, cool blue, LED strips.
Please note though that the colour of these LED strips can't be changed and I really like
that they can't be changed - it makes the PC unique.
Right at the top of this awesome, simplistic design we have the power button, under that
an HDMI port and next to that a USB port.
This is for, well, VR headsets.
It's a shame, however, on the front, that there isn't any audio outputs to plug in a
headphone jack.
You'd think with the form factor of this PC that it's either going to be sat next to a
monitor or somewhere where you would want to use a front facing audio jack.
Unfortunately, not present here.
Maybe in the Corsair One, version 2.
On the back of the unit at the top, we have a full load of audio outputs including analog
and, as well as that, a digital optical out so that if you want to go in to an amplifier
for some surround sound or even Dolby Atmos, you can do so.
Underneath that, you'll find two antennae ports for some WiFi antennae.
Yes, it has dual band AC WiFi.
If you're a hard-core gamer though, use that gig ethernet port.
Next to that gig ethernet port, we have two USB 3.0 ports - always VR ready here which
is brilliant.
We have then a couple of USB C ports and then two more USB ports and next to that an old
school - I haven't seen one of these in a while - I don't know why they included this
to be honest - but if you've got an old-school mouse you can, well, you can hook it up here
to this 2000, 3000 Dollar computer.
Now, to the right hand side of all of that we have our three pin power port which is
brilliant - thickest cable at the bottom - thumbs up from me.
And above that, HDMI and two display ports.
As simple as you can get it really.
So, we've talked about the pricing, we've talked about the specs, we've talked about
how this thing looks and we've said it is absolutely incredible and amazing build quality.
Ten out of ten.
Form factor - ten out of ten.
I/O - nine out of ten - audio on the front please.
The question in my mind when I first saw this thing and gamed on it was: How have they done it?
And, well, with a simple click of a button on the back of the machine, you can remove
that top heat sink and see, well, how it's done and it is incredible.
Now, taking this thing apart, I do preface that Corsair do not recommend doing this but
I also must say that all of the parts inside of this PC are, well, industry standard.
So, you can go in here and pick out, swap and choose bits and bobs like the RAM, GPU
- whatever - bar the coolers.
So, taking that in to account, you're probably thinking to yourself: Well, I could probably
then build the same computer with the same spec. but for cheaper and, yes, you can.
In our testing, it came out between 30% and 40% cheaper.
But you need to ask yourself internally: Is the trade-off of having this thing looking
absolutely gorgeous sat on your desk with the full metal chassis worth the extra buck?
Well, that's for you to decide.
But I think, personally, that it looks incredible.
Right, back to the inside.
At the top of the unit when you take off, well, the metal grilled heat sink, is a 140
millimetre fan and this is the only fan present in the build and Corsair say that it creates
a vacuum inside of this case which, well, either side of the case is a radiator for
the water cooled GPU and CPU.
Yeah, water cooled, in this form factor.
If you want to undo and take apart the system even further than this, there's two screws
which you take off of either side of the case, underneath this 140 millimetre fan - that
will then reveal the two radiators and everything inside of this bad boy.
And I suppose that this is really what you are paying for here; you're paying for the
thought process that has gone in to the inside, the brains, of this computer.
The research that Corsair has done to fit all of this inside this form factor; it's
honestly incredible and it's something that you couldn't really do yourself if you were
building a PC.
So, we are now left with the one question: What's it capable of and can it game?
Right, so, we've turned off all of the lights and we've got the Corsair One linked up to
a 4K, 55 inch, HDR 10 panel.
Let's play some Player Unknown Battlegrounds and set everything to ultra and see what it
does and I can already tell you right now that it's going to get a solid 100 FPS.
If you guys want to find out what this PC can pull on games at 4K or at 1080 or at ultra
or at high, there's websites that list everything.
But we'll just show you that this thing is more than capable of playing new games.
So, there you go guys.
That was our quick look at the Corsair One.
An absolute hardware and software engineering masterpiece.
Corsair's been putting this thing together for a long time and it's incredible to see
a company that's been known for doing PC peripherals to actually jump in and build a full blown PC.
But not just doing that - actually smacking the nail so hard on the head that they have
made one of my favourite PC's to date, through the performance and how this thing looks and
feels in the hand and the sight.
It's honestly incredible and if you can get yourself down to a show or even buy one to
see it, I would recommend doing so.
But for now guys, my name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow and we'll catch you in the
next one.