Corsair One i500 (2024) Review: 14900K + 4090!

all right guys Dominic H kit Guru and the Corsair 1 is back and it is bigger than ever literally sporting a new design then with a wood front panel larger Micro ATX motherboard but still with liquid cooling on both CPU and GPU it's safe to say Corsair is not holding back on this brand new Corsair 1 i500 for 2024 today then we review the flagship model with an I9 4900 K RTX 490 and 64 gigs of ddr5 memory all priced at a rather ey watering [Music] [Music] 4,699 we're going to dive straight into it then with a tour around the system starting with the exterior and the front panel so Corsair is offering the brand new one with a choice of two colors I have the wood dark option with a walnut front panel and dark aluminum panels but there is also a wood light option too the power button sits right in the heart of the front panel and those vertical strips in the wood are not just decorative they're actually touch sensitive strips and they can be used to change the RGB lighting without the need for software which if you ask me is a very cool addition both sides of the one are covered with these gray fabric filters which I personally feel complements the aesthetic very well these are magnetic and can simply be lifted away to reveal the perforated aluminum panels beneath then around the back we find a very healthy selection of ports and connectors with a ton of USB options and the graphics card video outputs as well it's also worth pointing out that the Corsair 1 has got quite a bit larger than when we last saw it the one i500 that I'm looking at here for instance has dimensions of 391 by 185x 300 mm whereas the Corsair 1 i300 that I looked at 2 years ago has a very similar height and width but is only 200 mm Deep by my calculations then the new Corsair 1 i500 has a volume of 21.7 L compared to just 12 L for the i300 safe to say it is still a compact machine but the i500 definitely looks a bit more like a regular pc whereas the i300 wasn't a whole lot bigger than a console moving on though to accessing the internals of the machine this is a three-part job first of all just remove the left hand side fabric filter along with the two screws at the top of the aluminium panel and then the panel will pop out revealing three intake fans which blow air into the chassis two more screws can then be removed and the top fan bracket swings open as it is on a hinge this then gives us access to the CPU memory and m.2 SSD area but four more screws can also be removed from the bottom bracket and that is also removable opening up the lower half of the case and giving access to the PSU and GPU the first thing that you'll probably notice is that the internal layout is very different compared to previous Corsair 1es with everything housed in the same area of the chassis unlike previous models which were dual chamber in design with the CPU and GPU on separate sides of the system as for the hardware itself though corser has opted for the I9 4900 K CPU a raptor Lake refresh part offering eight peor and 16 eor that's paired with no less than 64 gigs of ddr5 memory running at 6,000 megat transfers per second and a cast latency of 30 so nice and tight timings the motherboard though is where things get interesting as it's now actually a Micro ATX board instead of the ITX boards that were found on previous versions of the cors A1 specifically cors is using the MSI mag b760 M mortar Wi-Fi now I've not used this board before but it does have a serious looking amount of vrm cooling and the io is plentiful so from that perspective I can't complain I did ask Corsair though why they went for a b760 chipset instead of z790 particularly at this price point and they just told me that they were looking for a z790 option specifically with support for Gen 5 ssds but they just weren't any available now I can only assume that they meant there weren't any available from MSI as it does appear that corser has some kind of partnership with MSI to make motherboards for the Corsair one or rather for Corsair to use MSI motherboards inside the Corsair 1 and MSI doesn't make any microatx z790 boards like I said it's not a huge problem I was mainly just thinking of the fact that being b760 it can only support m.2 these up to Gen 4 speed and not Gen 5 which at this price point is a shame but it's not the end of the world it's also worth noting that the one uses a custom bios for the b760 M mottar Wi-Fi so users would need to get future revisions from the Corsair website and not from MSI as the fan curves and power limits have been specifically tuned to the i500 I took a quick look in the Bios myself and everything looks fine most settings were left on auto but XMP was enabled as was resizable bar with the fan curve left on default as you can see here as for storage this comes in the form of a single two terb Samsung pm91 though Corsair did mention users could also get an mp600 Drive depending on pricing and stock levels now the pm91 is a solid enough Gen 4 drive it's basically the OEM equivalent of the 980 Pro but I can't help but feel 2 terabytes at this price point is definitely a bit stingy Corsair have been smart however as they installed this drive in the bottom of the two m.2 slots leaving the top slot free which is the one underneath the integrated heat sink on the motherboard so it is very easy to access that and install a new SSD if you want to upgrade down the line As for the graphics then this is the RTX 490 and specifically it is actually the pallet Omni Black Version but here that basically just means it's a reference PCB as Corsair is of course using its custom all-in-one liquid cooler to contact both the memory and the GPU die with a 240 mm Radiator in the roof of the system upon further inspection however I noticed that there's actually no heat sinks or any kind of cooling for the vrms those mosfets are just left completely untouched and appear to rely purely on system airf flow to keep themselves cool now unfortunately I don't have the required thermocouples to be able to accurately measure the temperature of these mosfets under load but I did want to point this out as it does seem a bit odd to me to use the world's most power hungry GPU or at least the most power hungry gaming GPU in the 490 and not even add some copper heat sinks onto those mosfets I can't say based on any of my testing that I noticed any instability or any issues at all that might be as a result of the vrm calling or lack thereof but this is definitely something I wanted to point out I also referenced the custom cooling but just for clarity the CPU is cooled by a 120 mm all-in-one liquid cooler which is installed at the fan bracket at the top of the system and this intakes cool air into the chassis the GPU is cooled by a 240 mm radiator that's installed at the roof and that exhausts hot air out of the system you can also access the fans on the top panel by removing two torque screws from either side of the system and then the top panel will pop off revealing those to 120 mm fans powering the system then we find a Corsair sf180 plus gold PSU which should be absolutely plenty even for this 1490 model you can also access the right hand panel of the system which reveals the back of the motherboard tray and some cabling though there is also a spare 2.5 in SSD or HDD caddy if you want to install some extra storage with the Sater and power cables rooted just underneath finally then it is also worth mentioning that Corsair isn't actually using IQ to control the various system parameters of the Corsair 1 they told me that they didn't want the system to be tied down with just a single piece of software that not everyone might want to use which is fair enough and it could also open up the possibility of using a different OS on the Corsair 1 instead Corsair developed something they call the dashboard which simply controls the RGB lighting and shows a readout of fan and pump speeds it can also display system information and check for updates but that is about it for any fan curve or performance tweaks you will have to either resort to the BIOS or a separate third party tool if you're looking for a new chair then you should definitely check out booies I'm currently sat on their Ninja Pro gaming chair which is one of three models from their gaming series alongside the elite and the master so if you're looking for something new to stick in your setup that you can sit on and game and work then I recommend definitely checking out boo. co.uk after all of that then just before I dive into the benchmarks it is worth quickly establishing the default CPU and GPU Behavior so unlike the cor1 i300 which had a 12900 K with a 165 W pl1 with this new i500 model Corsair has actually upped the power to the CPU giving it a 240 W pl2 and a 200 W pl1 in practice then this means that the CPU will initially boost up to 4.9 to 5 GHz on its peores before dropping back after about a minute to 4.6 GHz once the package power drops down to 200 Watts for reference a completely stock I9 3900 K in the kit Guru GPU test rig runs at 5.6 GHz on the peor initially only settling down to 5.4 GHz or so due to Thermal constraints that means the 4900 K in the Corsair 1 is definitely leaving some clock speed on the table but again this is is likely due to thermals of such a compact chassis the GPU meanwhile in the Corsair 1 is operating at about 26 70 MHz under 4K load with board power reported in software at about 400 wats the 1490 F Edition I use in the kit Guru GPU test rig did run a touch faster at 2730 MHz but that's a frankly negligible difference it's also worth saying that I am using the kit Guru GPU test rig as the primary point of comparison in this system purely because it's got a very similar spec and I installed a 4090 in it so we can see the performance difference between a compact system versus a full-size mid Tower using very similar hardware and I am also using the ASO Predator Orion x with a full review of that system coming very soon kicking things off then with cine bench multicore this shows the 4900 K in the corset 1 to be about 15% behind the 3900 K in the kit Guru test rig simply due to its lower clock speeds as a result of the 200 W pl1 single core performance however is basically unaffected as the power limits are not an issue here and all three systems score very similarly blender though is another multicore workout and this does show the 4900 K in the one to fall behind the 3900 K from our own test rig This Time by a 9% margin moving on to PC Mark 10 this one is much of a muchness really there's not a whole lot of difference between the different systems sys the higher clock speeds do help our own test rate to slightly higher scores especially in the productivity workload but there's not much in it memory bandwidth though is a real strength of the cors A1 given its tight timings and cl30 latency it delivers about 95,000 mbes per second reads and 88,000 mb per second rights GPU performance from the RTX 490 in the Corsair 1 is right where we'd expect as well hitting over 36,000 points in time spy that does mean it's slightly behind the 490 founds Edition we used in our test system but only just lastly then as for the two terabyte Samsung PM9 A1 this delivers pretty much what we'd expected in terms of read and WR speeds hitting 6,700 mb per second reads and 4,900 mbes per second rights as for our game benchmarks then here I tested seven different titles at 1440p and 4K using the maximum in-game quality presets but without any form of upscaling and no R tracing either as you can see from these benchmarks then there's not much difference at all between the cors A1 and our own test system when it comes to gaming in almost all instances we are GPU bound and the two 490s perform very similarly to each other I did actually observe one instance where the Corso one outperformed our own test rig in F1 2023 by a 9% margin at 1440p which could be due to the superior memory performance overall Al though the one performs exactly as you'd expect for gaming so it's honestly nothing less than a beast considering it is packing in a 4900 k and a 490 so in my view it would be perfect for something like a 4K 240 HZ QD OLED monitor next up then we're going to move on to CPU thermals and the 4900 K does get warm but not dangerously so hitting 86° in cine bench and 88° in cyberpunk 2077 limiting the pl1 to 200 WS definitely helps considering the CPU is only cooled by a 120 mm allinone but by this CPU standards The Thermals are well in check GPU thermals are also nothing to worry about as we saw the memory Peak at 82° with the GPU at 62 and the hot spot at 71° after a 30 minute stress test software tools don't report the mosfet temperatures for the 490 however which I would be fascinated to know considering there is no heat SN cooling the GPU vrm but without the data all we can do is speculate one downside for the Corsair 1 though is that it does get loud under load considering its combination of the 4900 K and 490 in a relatively compact chassis I guess this was to be expected but it could be distracting for some users though it didn't bother me when gaming with a headset on there is however just a touch of audible wine from one of the pumps inside the system when when it is idling but to hear everything for yourself here is a quick sound test lastly though total system power control is nothing to worry about when gaming we saw almost 670 watts in cyber Punk at 4K but even that is still well below the th000 wat capacity of the power supply ensuring good levels of efficiency so that brings us to the end of this Corsair 1 i500 review and as always there is plenty to say starting with the positives though no doubt about it this is an incredibly potent 4K gaming machine as you'd expect considering the combination of the 4900 K and 490 GPU in fact in my testing I found the frame wees were basically identical to our own kit Guru GPU test rig which has a 3900 k and a 490 FS Edition so even with the Corsair 1 being a much smaller system you are not compromising on your frame rate for most people then that will be all they need to hear and while I generally have been impressed by this system I do just have a few relatively minor criticisms the first is the storage for Me 2 terabytes at this price point is just way too stingy and I think it needs to be 4 tby at minimum the second point is that the system can get loud under load but again I do think that maybe is to be expected considering the compact nature of the chassis and the high-end Hardware inside the third point however is one that's a bit more tricky for me to discuss as it's about the lack of vrm cooling on the GPU as I said I do not have the necessary Hardware to accurately measure the temperature of these mosfets so I can't really say whether this is an actual problem for the Corsair 1 and certainly nothing in my testing seemed to indicate that there was anything wrong with the system all I would say is that it does seem very odd to me to install the 4090 and not put any kind of cooling on the vrms but without data that's about all I can say so if maybe you know anything about this do let me know your comments down in the description overall though if you are in the market for a brand new high-end gaming rig and you like the look of this new Corsair 1 I have to say I really like the aesthetic then I have no doubt you will be happy with this machine of course however you do have to pay a pretty penny as this model that I reviewed here retails for 4,699 99 here in the UK just doing some basic calculations over on PC part picker I spec up a broadly equivalent system for about £3200 so as always you are paying a Hefty premium for the Corsair 1 over a DIY system obviously then only you can justify how much you are willing to spend on a new gaming PC but giving my personal opinion and feel free to disagree with me in the comments but I can't help but feel that this new Corsair 1 doesn't quite justify its price as well as previous models of the Corsair 1 did for me the Allure of the Corsair 1 was always having high-end Hardware in a very compact chassis but I just feel this new Corsair 1 i500 has lost some of its magic and some of its appeal as it is so much bigger being now a 21.7 l volume compared to just the 12 L volume of the Corsair 1 from Just 2 years ago maybe that is just me though and if you are happy to pay the price like I said I have no doubts you will be very happy with the corset 1 i500 it's just for me personally it doesn't captivate in quite the same way as previous models of the Corsair 1 just due to how much bigger it is anyway guys that is going to do it for this review if you liked it please do toss me a thumbs up and as always let me know your thoughts down in the comments below please do subscribe if you haven't already and ding that notification Bell so you don't miss when we upload a new video and if you want 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Length: 19min 43sec (1183 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2024