Breaking Corsair One I600 Review

The Corsair One i600 delivers a lot of gaming PC for such a compact package, with the dual-loop cooling keeping a stock Core Ultra 9 285K in check and being more than enough for the RTX 5080 powering its gaming chops. There's also probably about $2,000 worth of RAM and SSD in there by 2026's upcoming pricing...

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I will admit, I was expecting more from the Corsair One. More heat, more noise, more annoyance. After all, the original Corsair One, while admittedly smol, was a noisy ol' chimney of a PC. But the current design—a bit taller, a bit deeper—is far more suited to the task of keeping both high-end CPU and GPU combinations in check.

While that does make the i600 a less compact gaming PC than the first iteration, it is a far more effective device because of it. And it's still pretty small if you compare it to most RTX 5080-based gaming PCs on the market.

You can, of course, build out a small form factor mini-ITX machine in something like the Fractal Design Terra and have yourself a powerful micro machine, but it's not going to be able to get close to matching the cooling and aural design of the Corsair One. This thing is pacey, and this thing does it all with an understated grace you'll struggle to match with any compact DIY build.

The key to that is the dual 240 mm AIO water cooling loops the Corsair One employs to keep its CPU and GPU components chill. There's a radiator in the top of the chassis that cools the graphics card and one in the side, which folds open, to look after the CPU. It's a neat design that allows it to run up to an RTX 5090 on the graphics side and either a Core Ultra 9 285K or Ryzen 9 9900X3D on the CPU side.

FRONT: 2x USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, 3.5 mm audioREAR: 1x USB 20G bps Type-C, 1x USB 10 Gbps Type-A, 4x USB 5 Gbps Type-A, 2x USB 2

✅ You're after a PC that won't utterly dominate your desktop: Granted, it's not the same size as the original Corsair One chassis, but it's still smaller than most RTX 5080 gaming PCs around right now.

❌ You are after a gaming PC with a strong sense of value: You are absolutely paying a premium for the form factor and the engineering that has to go into making a powerful compact gaming PC.

For the purposes of this review, I've been restrained, however, and opted for the Corsair On

Source: PC Gamer