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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. So a few months ago at CES, I was at a Corsair presentation
00:10and they were going to reveal a product, and based on the emails that were kind of going
00:14back and forth between Corsair and I, I thought that they were going to reveal some super
00:18secret laptop. It wasn't. It was this thing, which is way better than a super secret laptop.
00:23This is my dream computer. This is called Corsair One. It's a pre-built 12-liter computer
00:30that holds a full-size GPU. Now, for comparison of size, this is a 2013 Mac Pro. It's around
00:365.5 or 6 liters. The average ITX case is around 18 to 20 liters. My micro ATX case is around
00:4540 liters. It's pretty big. The Corsair One is 12 liters. It's small. On the exterior,
00:50it's a smooth black finish, really good build quality. None of the edges are nasty sharp
00:55or anything. Aesthetically, I like it. It's not for everyone, but I think they did a good
01:00job on the design. There's some lighting up front, but Corsair went against the grain
01:04and instead of following the whole RGB trend we're seeing everywhere, it only lights up
01:08in blue. You can control the brightness and timing settings in software. The sides have
01:14these triangular perforations. They're for airflow, and you'll see in a minute why there's
01:18so many of them. The I.O. is pretty good. I mean, it's a desktop PC running a full-size
01:23graphics card. On the back, we have audio jacks, AC Wi-Fi, Ethernet, the very important
01:28PS2 port, and six USB ports, one of them being Type-C, but it's not Thunderbolt 3. Up front,
01:35we have HDMI 2.0 and a USB 3.1, which is perfect for VR setups. A lot of companies have made
01:41small gaming PCs, but to see what makes this one special, you have to go inside. Opening
01:45it up is pretty easy. You press a switch and the top grill pops off. Underneath this
01:50grill is the main fan. It's a Corsair Maglev fan. These things are awesome. Lots of airflow
01:55and really quiet. You remove some screws and then you're inside. So this system is water
02:00cooled by two separate loops. On the CPU side, there's one loop that uses a thin 240mm RAD.
02:07This is cooling a Kaby Lake 7700K, and you'll notice there's no fans on this radiator. The
02:13airflow to cool this thing is primarily coming from that Maglev fan at the top. And then
02:18on the other side, the GPU side, there's another loop with its own RAD. So this one's also
02:24a thin 240mm RAD. The GPU in this unit, the review unit, is a water cooled GTX 1080, but
02:31the base model has an air cooled GTX 1070. So we have three fans. The big Maglev fan
02:36up top, the fan on the GPU side, and then the fan inside the power supply, which looks
02:41like a SF400 from Corsair. These are supposed to be enough to cool this entire system through
02:48assisted convection. So cool air sucks in through the sides and then hot air rises out.
02:53The motherboard is on one side. The GPU, instead of just slotting in like it normally would,
02:58is connected using a riser, and then there's a PCIe ribbon that folds over to the other
03:02side. The 16GB of RAM are easy to replace. If you want to put in an NVMe drive, there's
03:08an M.2 slot behind the motherboard, and there's two 2.5 inch drive bays. But if you want to
03:12replace any of this stuff, the motherboard, the CPU, the GPU, just about everything. I
03:17mean it's not going to be easy, it's a pretty cramped case, but it can be done. So I have
03:21to be honest, when I first saw this thing at CES, I mean it looks pretty cool, and it's
03:25super small, and it's very quiet, but I wasn't sure how the performance would be because
03:29it's super packed in there, and a GTX 1080 and a 7700K get really hot. Now these components
03:36have been benchmarked a million times, so I'm not going to bore you with too many numbers,
03:40but the performance was as expected for the CPU and GPU combination. Fan noise on idle
03:45is pretty quiet, it's not completely silent like a Mac Pro, but you can't really hear
03:49it. On maximum load, and we're not talking like a game here, we're talking like a stress
03:53test, it's definitely audible, but considering the horsepower the system has, it's still
03:58very quiet. Playing games on this thing is a blast. My G-Sync monitor is 1440p, so that's
04:04the resolution I play on. Even poorly optimized games run well on this thing because of how
04:08powerful the hardware is, and Witcher 3, still one of the most demanding games on the market
04:13right now, runs nicely, and this is with hairworks on. And even when playing a game like this,
04:18the fans are still pretty quiet. The next thing I did was overclock it, and this is
04:22where I was most impressed. The 7700K was able to hit 5GHz comfortably, and the GTX
04:281080, I was able to get it running at around 1900MHz. The CPU temperatures were a little
04:32warm during these stress tests, but this is a solid overclock, and honestly, I think
04:36I could have gone further, but I got sucked into playing some games. So I usually play
04:40Overwatch on low settings for max frame rates, but here, I'm running it on ultra graphics
04:45at 1440p. With the CPU at 5GHz, and the GPU over 1900MHz, even after hours of gaming,
04:53temperatures were comfortable, system was stable, and everything was still quiet. The
04:57overclocking potential in this system is really impressive. Video editing is also really
05:05nice on this thing. It's fast, and it's quiet. I work with 5K footage, and this thing does
05:09a fantastic job with it. For VR, the Corsair One obviously handles VR really nicely. The
05:15GTX 1070 and the 1080 are well above the recommended specs for VR titles right now, and because
05:21the chassis is so small, you can just leave it out without being too much of an eyesore.
05:25So I had this system sitting in my living room for two weeks, and my wife didn't care,
05:29because it's small and quiet.
05:36The performance on this thing is awesome, and it's not just fast components, because
05:39anyone can just stick fast components into a case, but they have it properly cooled,
05:43so there's no throttling, and there's still room for overclocking, and the whole while,
05:47they're doing it in a small case that's super quiet. Now in terms of pricing, the base model
05:52starts at $1,800, but the one I like the most is the Corsair One Pro, the one with
05:57the GTX 1080, and that costs $2,200, which is a lot of money for a desktop PC. Now some
06:03people are going to be like, why would you buy this thing when you can just build your
06:06own custom PC for like $7? But I actually wanted to know, how much does it actually
06:10cost to build a 12 liter ITX system with these specs? So I went onto PC Part Picker, loaded
06:15up the configurator. Now you gotta pony up for a 12 liter case that can fit a GTX 1080.
06:20There's not many of them, and they're not cheap, but once you get all the parts, I'm
06:24coming in at around $1,800, and that doesn't include the second rad that you would need
06:28to water cool the GPU. Once you get one of those, and a maglev fan to kind of cool everything
06:32down the way they did it, it's going to be like $1,950 or more, most likely more. So
06:37when you compare the price for $2,200 that Corsair built it, they're going to slap a
06:42two year warranty on it, it's engineered properly, it's not that much of a premium, we're talking
06:47like 10-12% more than $1,950, that's pretty solid. So if you're looking for a small ITX
06:54system, I would highly recommend checking this thing out. I mean, ITX systems aren't
06:58for everyone, but if you are, take a look at this one, because you can custom build
07:02your own, but it won't be nearly as complete as this, like coming out of the box obviously,
07:07but building something that has this kind of thermal performance with this kind of fan
07:11noise is very difficult if you do it yourself, in this form factor. That's the end of this
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07:19guys next time.