the corsair one gaming system is
basically like the pistol and halo
combat evolved it's small and
understated
and totally overpowered
now you might be thinking okay linus
yeah the one was pretty cool when it
came out
two years ago but what has it done for
me lately how does it merit a re-review
well since you asked although these two
look very similar on the outside the
internals have actually gotten a
complete overhaul
this one is rocking a liquid cooled core
i9 9900k and a liquid cooled rtx 2080 ti
so let's find out
how
corsair did that
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before we go any further i need to talk
about one area where corsair totally
dropped the ball here
see the fins here on the original model
they are slightly above the fan grill
meaning that when you stroke them the
one sings you this wonderful little tune
as for the new one
whole day ruined
but seriously the build quality and
design on display here is still
fantastic every single part of it just
feels so solid and in my opinion this
machine just doesn't have a bad side it
looks great in basically any situation
from a professional studio where desk
space is at a premium to the computer
room of a well-off gamer where the
addition of rgb lighting is sure to
impress children of all ages
now unless you have a particularly keen
eye the old one and the new one which
we'll be calling the deuce from now on
to avoid confusion look nearly identical
the front i o has been moved down and
expanded the headphone jack here is a
very welcome addition and the side
actually has a bit of additional venting
cut into it
but
really that's about it
for now getting around to the back ah
okay so now we're getting somewhere the
motherboard is clearly in a different
place and it looks like the position of
the power supply has also changed so
let's dive in then and figure out
exactly what's going on here so pressing
this button on the back allows us to
remove the fan from the top
[Laughter]
that's the one right
so pressing this button on the back
so
how are you doing this
okay
so pressing this button on the back
allows us to remove the fan from the top
here you can see it's uh there we go now
it's unplugged it's 140 millimeters and
takes care of the majority of the
cooling pulling air in through the
radiators that you can actually see on
either side here and then exhausting it
right up the top
in our testing this results in nearly
silent operation in many situations and
even under full load the deuce is
shockingly quiet with the two and a half
inch hard drive and the quiet water pump
competing to be the loudest or
more like least quiet component
removing these four screws then
that's a marker uh
i thought i had my screwdriver in my
pocket i don't
removing these four screws then
allows our sides to slide down so here
here here and
here
this
gives us basically unfettered access to
the guts
so
with it open we can see that there are
two distinct thermal zones
so this radiator on this side provides
up to 300 watts of cooling power for our
gpu
and then this one over here which is
actually a little bit smaller gives us
about 165 watts for the cpu
now this dual zone design isn't new but
corsair has actually flipped around
which side the components are on and one
benefit of that change is
massively better cable management like
let's start by looking at the gpu here
i love
how they were able to get all of the
cabling along the edge over here see
this it's all tucked in there nicely
rather than just sprawling everything
across the components and as for the
motherboard well
you can see the improvement on the
motherboard side immediately because you
can see the motherboard at all and the
tubing to the radiators has also been
shortened which is a surprisingly
important improvement for anyone that
might want to upgrade this machine in
the future
in the past when you were putting the
one back together it was really easy to
accidentally kink the tubing completely
cutting off cooling to one of the sides
not very user friendly moving back to
the gpu we can actually see here that
the water block is only responsible for
cooling the gpu's core with vrm and
power management being taken care of by
this actively cooled heatsink this is
actually not the first time i've seen a
design like this there were some older
they were called unisyncs back when
d-tec first did it and you were expected
to kind of like
duct tape a fan to it there was like no
official way to do it but it works
really really well and there are a
couple of reasons for that one it
focuses all your cooling power on the
gpu itself where there's actually a
performance benefit to be gained and
theoretically if you're a true
enthusiast it's possible you'd be able
to take it and then transplant it onto a
future
rtx 9000 or whatever the case may be as
long as you could figure out some way to
deal with the memory and the vrms now we
can't say for sure how easy that's going
to be but we do know that compared to a
full cover block that is specific to the
card there's a better chance you'd be
able to reuse some of your components
what we can also say for sure is that we
got some outstanding cooling results out
of this setup here
in 3dmark the deuce was expectedly
within our margin of error for
performance compared to an air-cooled
card with the temperatures leveling off
in the high 70s after 45 minutes of
gaming
so what that means is that you might not
have a massive amount of headroom for
overclocking or anything but it also
means that you can expect full boost
clocks indefinitely while your system
remains quieter than basically any
air-cooled card let alone an air-cooled
card in a tiny chassis like this
moving over to the other side
i just i feel like i have to bring this
up again how impressive the improvements
in cable routing are compared to the old
model routine upgrades will be
significantly easier this time around
there's not a ton that you can upgrade
out of the box since our config is
already loaded for bear both ram slots
are populated for a total of 32 gigs the
single two and a half inch drive bay is
occupied by a two terabyte hard drive
and the 480 gig m.2 ssd is located on
the back of the motherboard which is
probably actually easier to access by
pulling off the graphics card but the
really interesting thing over here is
the cpu radiator which is actually
smaller compared to the outgoing model
this allows the compact 600 watt power
supply to pull in fresh air from the
outside rather than recycled warm air
from inside the system so that means
that it can actually operate much more
efficiently which contributes to the
overall quietness of our machine
and then back to the size here corsair
claims
that they actually managed to increase
the cooling capacity since the new
layout has a smaller rad but one that
allows more air to be pulled through it
so uh let's see how that works out for
them actually looks like it's pretty
well so our core i9 9900k stayed right
at a blistering 4.7 gigahertz in games
even after giving it plenty of time to
heat up the coolant and our temperatures
managed to hold comfortably around the
mid 70s
under a full synthetic load you will end
up sacrificing some clock speed dropping
down to about 3.8 gigahertz on all eight
cores but
that's actually what we expect from this
cpu when intel's power draw
specifications are followed and it is an
absolute beast
so once again in the spec view perf
productivity test the deuce throws up
numbers that are nearly identical to
what we saw from our open air test bench
with the only real downer for
productivity being the lack of an option
for 10 gigabit ethernet which if we're
being honest is a must-have for
professionals that are working with
large heavy files like the 8k red
footage that we deal with around here
overall though
the story remains the same the corsair
one is able to give you the performance
of a top of the line gaming system in a
compact package while somehow managing
to remain quiet cool and sexy
but of course with great design comes
great cost and that really is the
biggest downside of the deuce which
starts at 3
thousand dollars for the i-140 with the
better equipped i-160 that we've got
here weighing in at an eye-watering 3600
us dollars
so
let's put it aside for a second and
change the subject a little bit
this
is the msi trident x
it isn't liquid cooled the build quality
is
fine but not exceptional it's bigger it
gets a bit louder under load and it has
half the ram
but
it also reaches a similar level of
gaming performance and costs
1
000 us dollars less
and it gets worse for the one in
corsair's own lineup you'll find the
vengeance gaming pc that we reviewed
recently
now it does step the performance down a
touch but you still get a 2 year
warranty and you save 600
not to mention that there's better
upgradeability and that's ignoring the
option of building your own pc which i
guess puts me in sort of an awkward
position doesn't it because the deuce
gives me like a great big nerd direction
and i think a world where everybody had
one of these would be a better world and
corsair deserves fat stacks of cash for
the engineering work not to mention the
design work that has gone on here it's
just that at this price you do need to
have some serious disposable income to
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