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A strong, compact, wood-finished prebuilt that comes with AIO liquid cooling on each the CPU and the GPU Up to date: Aug 21, 2024 5:23 pm WePC is reader-supported. Once you purchase by hyperlinks on our web site, we might earn an affiliate fee. Costs topic to alter. Study extra Desk of Contents Desk of Contents The Corsair One i500 is the 2024 launch within the ‘One’ line of prebuilt PCs which can be designed to be compact in your desk while nonetheless remaining very highly effective for each gaming and workstation use. This newest mannequin has a putting wood-finished design plus a very ingenious inner building, and is the primary mannequin to additionally function a devoted AIO water block and radiator for the graphics card. Does it run nicely sufficient to justify the very excessive asking worth although? Let’s discover out. Specs CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Tremendous (16GB) / RTX 4090 (24GB) Motherboard: MSI MAG B760M Mortar WIFI (Micro-ATX, Intel B760M) Reminiscence: 32GB/64GB CORSAIR DDR5-6000 (4 DIMM slots) Storage: 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe PSU: CORSAIR 1000W 80 PLUS GOLD Entrance I/O ports: 2x 5Gbps USB Kind-A, 1x 10Gbps USB Kind-C, Mic/Headphone Combo Jack Rear I/O ports: On motherboard: 4x 5Gbps USB Kind-A, 3x 10Gbps USB Kind-A, 1x 20Gbps USB Kind-CHD Audio, 1x Show Port1x HDMI / on GPU: 3x DisplayPort,1x HDMI Networking: 2.5G Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 OS: Home windows 11 Professional 64-bit Present extra What We Assume There’s a large quantity to love about this PC together with its appears to be like, construct high quality, surprisingly nice efficiency in each gaming and artistic situations, and each the facility and thermal efficiency of the graphics card. Sadly the unwise determination to equip this PC with a hot-running CPU and solely give this a single 120mm radiator fan on the AIO means the processor runs highly regarded. In the event you can abdomen the excessive asking worth or discover one among these rigs at a decreased worth, we’d advise attempting to connect an extra 120mm fan on high of the CPU radiator if attainable (there’s room). Execs Nice efficiency regardless of compact measurement Nice cooling on the GPU due to AIO cooler Seems nice Nice construct high quality Can improve most elements regardless of the compact measurement Cons 14900K CPU runs notably scorching as a result of 120mm radiator limitation Very costly at full worth You should to Corsair to improve the graphics card Pricing The RTX 4080 Tremendous variant of the Corsair ONE i500 has a present MSRP of $3,599.99/£3,499.99 and the RTX 4090 variant is available in at $4,699.99/£4,699.99. There’s no hiding the truth that these are very costly costs. Clearly with any prebuilt it’s best to count on to pay greater than should you constructed a PC your self with the identical elements, extra so if it’s a singular compact design like with the ONE i500: that is the trade-off, however paying as much as $1,000/£1,000 greater than you usually would is a troublesome capsule to swallow. We have now nevertheless seen reductions of $300–$400 within the US at the very least, which makes it a bit extra palatable. Unboxing and setup Earlier Subsequent The Corsair ONE i500 was despatched to us inside a bigger postage field, inside which was the packaging field correct: a Corsair ONE branded cardboard field with a cloth carry deal with on the highest that lifts off to disclose the PC tower, sandwiched in place within the base part with inflexible foam padding on the highest and backside. Beneath the froth the PC is surrounded by a fabric carry bag that you should utilize to assist carry it out of its mooring within the base of the field. The cabling and documentation are within the base part of the field beneath the PC. We had no difficulty with the standard of the packaging and the unboxing course of was fairly simple. Turning on the PC was a bit complicated at first as there’s a delay between urgent the ‘on button’ on the entrance of the case with the Corsair brand and stated brand really illuminating. It’s a good suggestion to verify by the aspect grills should you’re undecided whether or not the PC is on or to not verify for inner illumination and fan motion. Our unit got here with Home windows 11 pre-installed together with primary drivers, although we all the time replace these anyway after establishing the working system and we advocate you do the identical. Our closing verify is to leap into the BIOS to ensure the marketed RAM speeds have been set. We have now RAM able to working at 6000MT/s on this system and, as anticipated, it was XMP’d to fulfill these speeds. Design, Construct High quality & Guarantee Earlier Subsequent Aesthetics are clearly a bit a part of why you would possibly purchase this prebuilt. Taking a leaf out of Fractal’s guide, the entrance of the case is a real-wood panel with its personal distinctive grain: there are at the moment two shade variants. A vertical strip runs down the center of this panel, with a light-up Corsair brand within the center on the round energy change that may be illuminated along with your chosen RGB. The aspect of the vertical strip instantly under the brand is contact delicate and permits you to change between the RGB; it’s a bit finnicky till you get the dangle of the place and the way precisely you must apply strain, although we’re a fan of tactile controls like this. Facet strips additionally mild up with RGB. RGB choices are sadly a bit restricted nevertheless, and you’ll solely choose from the next colours: white, crimson, orange, yellow, inexperienced, blue, purple, and violet. Whether or not you’re a fan of the distinctive look of this PC finally is dependent upon your subjective tastes and the form of setup you propose to have it in; should you’re searching for one thing to sit down in a non-gamery trying room then it might be preferrred. Emma in our workplace, who isn’t a fan of the look of most PCs, stated she really thought it appeared good and wouldn’t thoughts it being put in a outstanding place in her residence: if that’s not a ringing endorsement then I don’t know what’s. Extra practical lighting comes from the white mild which activates robotically once you’re rummaging across the again of the case: this can be a good element that we’re a giant fan of and it’s very useful once you’re attempting to plug issues in around the rear I/O at nighttime. You may take off the material aspect panels with out a screwdriver for ease of cleansing. Beneath the left mesh is a extra sturdy plastic grill with Y-shaped holes that does require a screwdriver to take off (affixed with two screws on the high) and beneath that is the exhaust part of three 120mm followers. Eradicating extra screws permits you to swing out horizontally the highest two followers on a hinge, unveiling the CPU (with its liquid cooling block hooked up), RAM, and M.2 slot space, and the underside fan swings downwards, revealing the facility provide and the underside part of the graphics card, with its AIO cooling block hooked up. The CPU is the usual Intel Core i9-14900K: a really highly effective processor for gaming and productiveness however a questionable selection for such a compact rig, given its identified points with overheating, notably given the AIO solely has a single 120mm fan in its radiator once you’d usually count on three (extra on this later). The graphics card choices aren’t commonplace in any respect nevertheless: it’s a extremely stripped down Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 or Zotac RTX 4080 SuperTrinity, that’s had plenty of its heatsinks and different elements eliminated, however comes with its personal (pretty unusual) devoted AIO. All instructed there are 5 120mm followers on this case: two within the high (together with the GPU radiator), and the three on the aspect simply talked about, which incorporates the CPU radiator. The motherboard is the MSI MAG B760M Mortar WIFI, which is a Micro-ATX measurement board that comes with 4 DIMM slots and two PCI-E x16. This contrasts with the even smaller mini-ITX motherboards you’d get in older Corsair ONE prebuilts that solely have two DIMM and one PCI-E x16, and it’s good to see this further expandability. The RAM used is Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000MT/s, which is nice high quality RAM of a excessive velocity, that may both include two 16GB sticks (within the case of the RTX 4080 Tremendous model) or two 32GB sticks (with the RTX 4090 model). Due to the 4 DIMM slots within the motherboard, you’ll be able to add an extra two sticks to both of those should you like. The storage with both variant is a 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD, which you’ll be able to improve at a later date. You additionally get house for a 2.5” SATA SSD, though this doesn’t include the pc. The entire PC is powered by a Corsair SF1000L energy provide, a small form-factor mannequin with 1000W of energy and a Gold 80 Plus commonplace effectivity ranking; Corsair make nice PSUs and that is in all probability the choice we’d choose if we had been making a construct of this measurement. This compact design may be very spectacular, and though it makes upgrading the PC a bit troublesome, for each space apart from the graphics playing cards it’s nonetheless attainable so that you can do it your self. Upgrading the GPU nevertheless does require you to ship off the PC to Corsair themselves, given its customized stripped-down design, which is a little bit of a faff but additionally not one thing that’s prone to occur fairly often contemplating the high-end playing cards it comes with. Moreover the awkward delay after urgent the on change as talked about, in nearly each different space the construct high quality of this rig was very excessive: each element felt properly secured, the succesful administration was tight, and the hinging mechanisms on the followers labored nicely. Our unit did include a defective kettle plug, which isn’t preferrred, however fortuitously we’ve loads to spare; we assume we had been unfortunate and the vast majority of customers received’t have this difficulty so we’re not going to mark it down as a unfavorable. The guarantee on this machine is 2 years and consists of 24/7 tech assist service; we’d have preferred this to increase to three years ideally however you’re at the very least allowed to take care of/improve the PC with out voiding it. Software program Moderately than the everyday iCue software program we’re used to from different Corsair merchandise, the ONE i500 as an alternative makes use of a extra stripped again ‘Corsair One Dashboard’ that you should utilize to manage the RGB and monitor CPU and GPU temps. You can even use Corsair Diagnostic to run stress exams and see extra detailed temperature data, plus CPUY and GPU load. Frankly it could have been higher if all this data was obtainable on the identical software program, relatively than having to make use of each, however each bits of software program are at the very least straightforward to make use of. Sadly, though fan RPMs are seen on the Dashboard software program, you’ll be able to’t change their speeds or setup totally different fan curves/efficiency profiles. Given the recent temps of the CPU we will perceive the necessity to set in a minimal security web on the radiator followers, however the possibility to maximise followers speeds regardless of the rise noise would have been good. Efficiency Earlier Subsequent Earlier Subsequent Usually you’d count on a compact machine like this with a chopped down model of the GPU to underperform bigger PCs that need to compromise much less on cooling, nevertheless in most gaming situations and artificial benchmarks the ONE i500 carried out roughly on par with what we’ve seen in bigger rigs with the identical core specs. As we’ll talk about under, the primary efficiency hit got here from the thermal throttling on the CPU, which undoubtedly impacts processor efficiency in these situations that put biggest stress on the processor. This might be a little bit of a priority in some workstation purposes that depend on this, although in most gaming situations you’ll nonetheless get top-notch efficiency. This doesn’t imply there aren’t issues as to the influence this may have on the well being of the CPU over time nevertheless. Corsair i500 artificial benchmarks Earlier Subsequent Corsair i500 gaming benchmarks Earlier Subsequent Fan noise When idling or getting used for internet searching/phrase processing/different normal productiveness duties, the One i500 was pretty quiet. Below load in each gaming and through artificial benchmarks, fan quantity did enhance noticeably over time; it by no means received too loud however equally was removed from the quietest we’ve heard: total the PC is fairly center of the highway on this facet. Inner temperature testing For our thermal check we recorded temps throughout our in-game testing. GPU temps on the Corsair ONE i500, each common and max temperatures, had been notably good: round 10-15°C cooler than you’d usually count on within the titles we examined, so the GPU-mounted AIO is clearly doing its job properly. As you’ll be able to see above although the max CPU temps on the Corsair ONE i500 ceaselessly run excessive, which is likely because of the limits of solely having a 120mm radiator on the processor AIO setup, plus the identified thermal issues related to the Intel 14th gen processors. With CPUs, a level of thermal throttling happens when max temps hit the low-to-mid 90s, with thermal injury and degradation to the element occurring within the excessive 90s and upwards, so we will see that in titles like CS2, Doom Everlasting (with RTX switched on), and undoubtedly in Cyberpunk 2077 this might be an issue. When it comes to how one can resolve this difficulty, making use of liquid steel thermal paste to the CPU is likely to be one concept, although given the bottle-necking is prone to do with the radiator, this in all probability received’t make a lot distinction. You might underclock the CPU, although this might clearly influence efficiency, or alternatively attempt undervolting it (decrease voltage means decrease temps), although this might be fairly dangerous given the identified instability of the Intel CPUs for the reason that introduction of the Efficiency and Effectivity core structure – not one thing to try should you don’t know what you’re doing. The very best resolution we may give could be to put in the most recent Intel 14900K instability patch, which may carry down temps by a few levels in trade for a drop in mult-core efficiency, although the single-core heavy gaming efficiency ought to stay comparatively unchanged. This isn’t going to make an unlimited distinction in fact, so a point of CPU efficiency degradation over time is probably going pretty inevitable with this PC. As well as, PC Centric has detailed how one can add an extra fan to the again of the 120mm radiator for the CPU (there’s room to do that!), which may get you as much as 4°C of extra cooling – not an enormous distinction however each little helps at these excessive temperatures. Then once more, should you’re shopping for a prebuilt PC within the first place that is possible not one thing you’d be eager to do.
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