A robust, 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. While you purchase by way of hyperlinks on our website, we could earn an affiliate fee. Costs topic to alter. Be taught 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 development, and is the primary mannequin to additionally function a devoted AIO water block and radiator for the graphics card. Does it run effectively sufficient to justify the very excessive asking value 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, construct high quality, surprisingly nice efficiency in each gaming and inventive eventualities, and each the ability and thermal efficiency of the graphics card. Sadly the unwise choice 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. If you happen to can abdomen the excessive asking value or discover considered one of these rigs at a lowered value, we’d advise making an attempt to connect an extra 120mm fan on high of the CPU radiator if potential (there’s room). Professionals Nice efficiency regardless of compact measurement Nice cooling on the GPU because of AIO cooler Appears nice Nice construct high quality Can improve most parts regardless of the compact measurement Cons 14900K CPU runs significantly scorching because of 120mm radiator limitation Very costly at full value It’s essential to 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 anticipate to pay greater than in case you constructed a PC your self with the identical parts, 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. Now we have nonetheless seen reductions of $300–$400 within the US at the 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 material carry bag that you should use 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 problem 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 emblem and stated emblem truly illuminating. It’s a good suggestion to examine by way of the aspect grills in case you’re unsure whether or not the PC is on or to not examine for inner illumination and fan motion. Our unit got here with Home windows 11 pre-installed together with fundamental drivers, although we all the time replace these anyway after organising the working system and we suggest you do the identical. Our closing examine is to leap into the BIOS to verify the marketed RAM speeds have been set. Now we have RAM able to operating at 6000MT/s on this system and, as anticipated, it was XMP’d to satisfy these speeds. Design, Construct High quality & Guarantee Earlier Subsequent Aesthetics are clearly a bit a part of why you may 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 presently two colour variants. A vertical strip runs down the center of this panel, with a light-up Corsair emblem within the center on the round energy swap that may be illuminated along with your chosen RGB. The aspect of the vertical strip instantly beneath the emblem is contact delicate and lets you swap between the RGB; it’s a bit finnicky till you get the hold of the place and the way precisely you have to 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 nonetheless, and you’ll solely decide from the next colours: white, pink, 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 type of setup you intend to have it in; in case you’re searching for one thing to take a seat in a non-gamery wanting room then it could possibly be very best. Emma in our workplace, who isn’t a fan of the look of most PCs, stated she truly thought it appeared good and wouldn’t thoughts it being put in a outstanding place in her dwelling: if that’s not a ringing endorsement then I don’t know what’s. Extra useful lighting comes from the white mild which activates robotically if you’re rummaging across the again of the case: this can be a good element that we’re an enormous fan of and it’s very useful if you’re making an attempt to plug issues in around the rear I/O in the dead of night. You may take off the material aspect panels and not using 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 lets you swing out horizontally the highest two followers on a hinge, unveiling the CPU (with its liquid cooling block connected), RAM, and M.2 slot space, and the underside fan swings downwards, revealing the ability provide and the underside part of the graphics card, with its AIO cooling block connected. 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, significantly given the AIO solely has a single 120mm fan in its radiator if you’d usually anticipate three (extra on this later). The graphics card choices usually are not normal in any respect nonetheless: it’s a extremely stripped down Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 or Zotac RTX 4080 SuperTrinity, that’s had quite a lot of its heatsinks and different parts 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 sweet high quality RAM of a excessive pace, 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). Because of the 4 DIMM slots within the motherboard, you possibly can add an extra two sticks to both of those in case you like. The storage with both variant is a 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD, which you’ll improve at a later date. You additionally get area 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 normal effectivity ranking; Corsair make nice PSUs and that is in all probability the choice we’d decide if we have been making a construct of this measurement. This compact design could 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 potential so that you can do it your self. Upgrading the GPU nonetheless 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 swap as talked about, in just about each different space the construct high quality of this rig was very excessive: each part felt properly secured, the succesful administration was tight, and the hinging mechanisms on the followers labored effectively. Our unit did include a defective kettle plug, which isn’t very best, however fortuitously now we have a lot to spare; we assume we have been unfortunate and the vast majority of customers received’t have this problem so we’re not going to mark it down as a detrimental. The guarantee on this machine is 2 years and contains 24/7 tech help service; we’d have preferred this to increase to three years ideally however you’re at the least allowed to take care of/improve the PC with out voiding it. Software program Slightly 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 use to regulate the RGB and monitor CPU and GPU temps. It’s also possible to use Corsair Diagnostic to run stress checks and see extra detailed temperature information, plus CPUY and GPU load. Frankly it could have been higher if all this information was accessible on the identical software program, moderately than having to make use of each, however each bits of software program are at the least straightforward to make use of. Sadly, though fan RPMs are seen on the Dashboard software program, you possibly can’t change their speeds or setup completely different fan curves/efficiency profiles. Given the recent temps of the CPU we will perceive the necessity to set in a minimal security internet 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 anticipate a compact machine like this with a chopped down model of the GPU to underperform bigger PCs that must compromise much less on cooling, nonetheless in most gaming eventualities 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 beneath, the principle efficiency hit got here from the thermal throttling on the CPU, which positively impacts processor efficiency in these eventualities that put best stress on the processor. This could possibly be a little bit of a priority in some workstation purposes that depend on this, although in most gaming eventualities you’ll nonetheless get top-notch efficiency. This doesn’t imply there aren’t issues as to the affect this may have on the well being of the CPU over time nonetheless. Corsair i500 artificial benchmarks Earlier Subsequent Corsair i500 gaming benchmarks Earlier Subsequent Fan noise When idling or getting used for net searching/phrase processing/different basic productiveness duties, the One i500 was pretty quiet. Below load in each gaming and through artificial benchmarks, fan quantity did improve 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 side. 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, have been significantly good: round 10-15°C cooler than you’d usually anticipate within the titles we examined, so the GPU-mounted AIO is clearly doing its job properly. As you possibly can see above although the max CPU temps on the Corsair ONE i500 steadily 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 part occurring within the excessive 90s and upwards, so we will see that in titles like CS2, Doom Everlasting (with RTX switched on), and positively in Cyberpunk 2077 this could possibly be an issue. When it comes to learn how to resolve this problem, making use of liquid metallic thermal paste to the CPU is perhaps one thought, although given the bottle-necking is prone to do with the radiator, this in all probability received’t make a lot distinction. You would underclock the CPU, although this could clearly affect efficiency, or alternatively attempt undervolting it (decrease voltage means decrease temps), although this could 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 in case you don’t know what you’re doing. One of the best resolution we can provide can be to put in the most recent Intel 14900K instability patch, which might convey 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 infinite 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 learn how to add an extra fan to the again of the 120mm radiator for the CPU (there’s room to do that!), which might 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, in case you’re shopping for a prebuilt PC within the first place that is seemingly not one thing you’d be eager to do.
