 The Corsair 1 gaming system is basically like the pistol and halo combat evolved. It's small and understated and totally overpowered. Now you might be thinking, Okay Linus, yeah the one was pretty cool when it came out two years ago, but what has it done for me lately? How does it merit a re-review? Well since you asked, although these two look very similar on the outside, the internals have actually gotten a complete overhaul. This one is rocking a liquid-cooled Core i9-9900K and a liquid-cooled RTX 2080 Ti. So let's find out how Corsair did that. After I totally derail everything to tell you about today's sponsor, GlassWire. GlassWire lets you instantly see your current and past network activity, detect malware, and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device. Use offer code LINUS to get 25% off at the link below. Music Before we go any further, I need to talk about one area where Corsair totally dropped the ball here. See the fins here on the original model? They are slightly above the fan grill, meaning that when you stroke them, the one sings you this wonderful little tune. As for the new one... Whole day ruined. But seriously, the build quality and design on display here is still fantastic. Every single part of it just feels so solid. And in my opinion, this machine just doesn't have a bad side. It looks great in basically any situation. From a professional studio where desk space is at a premium, to the computer room of a well-off gamer, where the addition of RGB lighting is sure to impress children of all ages. Now, unless you have a particularly keen eye, the old one and the new one, which we'll be calling the deuce from now on to avoid confusion, look nearly identical. The front I.O. has been moved down and expanded, the headphone jack here is a very welcome addition, and the side actually has a bit of additional venting cut into it. But really, that's about it. For now. Getting around to the back? Ah, okay. So now we're getting somewhere. The motherboard is clearly in a different place, and it looks like the position of the power supply has also changed. So let's dive in then and figure out exactly what's going on here. So pressing this button on the back allows us to remove the fan from the top. That's the one, right? Ah! So pressing this button on the back. So... How are you doing this? Okay. So pressing this button on the back allows us to remove the fan from the top here. You can see it's, uh... There we go. Now it's unplugged. It's 140 millimeters and takes care of the majority of the cooling, pulling air in through the radiators that you can actually see on either side here and then exhausting it right up the top. In our testing, this results in nearly silent operation in many situations, and even under full load, the Deuce is shockingly quiet, with the 2.5 inch hard drive and the quiet water pump competing to be the loudest, or more like least quiet component. Removing these four screws then... That's a marker. Thought I had my screwdriver in my pocket. I don't. Removing these four screws then allows our sides to slide down. So here, here, here, and... Oop. Here. This gives us basically unfettered access to the guts. So, with it open, we can see that there are two distinct thermal zones. So this radiator on this side provides up to 300 watts of cooling power for our GPU, and then this one over here, which is actually a little bit smaller, gives us about 165 watts for the CPU. Now, this dual zone design isn't new, but Corsair has actually flipped around which side the components are on, and one benefit of that change is massively better cable management. Like, let's start by looking at the GPU here. I love how they were able to get all of the cabling along the edge over here. See this? It's all tucked in there nicely, rather than just sprawling everything across the components. And as for the motherboard, well, you can see the improvement on the motherboard side immediately, because you can see the motherboard at all. And the tubing to the radiators has also been shortened, which is a surprisingly important improvement for anyone that might want to upgrade this machine in the future. In the past, when you were putting the one back together, it was really easy to accidentally kink the tubing, completely cutting off cooling to one of the sides. Not very user-friendly. Moving back to the GPU, we can actually see here that the water block is only responsible for cooling the GPU's core, with VRM and power management being taken care of by this actively cooled heatsink. This is actually not the first time I've seen a design like this. There were some older, they were called unisinks, back when D-Tech first did it, and you were expected to kind of like duct tape a fan to it. There was like no official way to do it. But it works really, really well. And there are a couple of reasons for that. One, it focuses all your cooling power on the GPU itself, where there's actually a performance benefit to be gained. And theoretically, if you're a true enthusiast, it's possible you'd be able to take it and then transplant it onto a future RTX 9000 or whatever the case may be, as long as you could figure out some way to deal with the memory and the VRMs. Now, we can't say for sure how easy that's going to be, but we do know that compared to a full cover block that is specific to the card, there's a better chance you'd be able to reuse some of your components. What we can also say for sure is that we got some outstanding cooling results out of this setup here. In 3DMark, the Deuce was expectedly within our margin of error for performance compared to an air-cooled card, with the temperatures leveling off in the high 70s after 45 minutes of gaming. So what that means is that you might not have a massive amount of headroom for overclocking or anything, but it also means that you can expect full boost clocks indefinitely while your system remains quieter than basically any air-cooled card, let alone an air-cooled card in a tiny chassis like this. Moving over to the other side, I just, I feel like I have to bring this up again. How impressive the improvements in cable routing are compared to the old model. Routine upgrades will be significantly easier this time around. There's not a ton that you can upgrade out of the box, since our config is already loaded for bare. Both RAM slots are populated for a total of 32 gigs. The single 2.5 inch drive bay is occupied by a 2 terabyte hard drive, and the 480 gig M.2 SSD is located on the back of the motherboard, which is probably actually easier to access by pulling off the graphics card. But the really interesting thing over here is the CPU radiator, which is actually smaller compared to the outgoing model. This allows the compact 600 watt power supply to pull in fresh air from the outside, rather than recycled warm air from inside the system. So that means that it can actually operate much more efficiently, which contributes to the overall quietness of our machine. And then back to the size here, Corsair claims that they actually managed to increase the cooling capacity since the new layout has a smaller rad, but one that allows more air to be pulled through it. So let's see how that works out for them. Actually, looks like it's pretty well. So our Core i9-9900K stayed right at a blistering 4.7 gigahertz in games, even after giving it plenty of time to heat up the coolant. And our temperatures managed to hold comfortably around the mid 70s. Under a full synthetic load, you will end up sacrificing some clock speed, dropping down to about 3.8 gigahertz on all eight cores, but that's actually what we expect from this CPU when Intel's power draw specifications are followed. And it is an absolute beast. So once again, in the spec view perf productivity test, the deuce throws up numbers that are nearly identical to what we saw from our open air test bench, with the only real downer for productivity being the lack of an option for 10 gigabit ethernet, which, if we're being honest, is a must have for professionals that are working with large, heavy files like the 8K red footage that we deal with around here. Overall though, the story remains the same. The Core i9-9900K is able to give you the performance of a top-of-the-line gaming system in a compact package while somehow managing to remain quiet, cool, and sexy. But of course, with great design comes great cost. And that really is the biggest downside of the deuce, which starts at $3,000 for the i140, with the better equipped i160 that we've got here weighing in at an eye-watering $3,600. So, let's put it aside for a second and change the subject a little bit. This is the MSI Trident X. It isn't liquid-cooled, the build quality is fine but not exceptional, it's bigger, it gets a bit louder under load, and it has half the RAM. But it also reaches a similar level of gaming performance and costs $1,000 less. And it gets worse for the one. In Corsair's own lineup, you'll find the Vengeance gaming PC that we reviewed recently. Now it does step the performance down a touch, but you still get a two-year warranty and you save $600. Not to mention that there's better upgradability. And that's ignoring the option of building your own PC, which I guess puts me in sort of an awkward position, doesn't it? Because the deuce gives me like a great big nerd-rection, and I think a world where everybody had one of these would be a better world. And Corsair deserves that stacks of cash for the engineering work, not to mention the design work that has gone on here. It's just that at this price, you do need to have some serious disposable income to drop on your deuce. Speaking of disposable income, you don't need a lot of it for Private Internet Access VPN. PIA hides your true IP address and allows you to bypass geo-restrictions and censorship by making you appear as though you are connecting from somewhere else. It helps prevent attacks by blocking unwanted connections, it auto-blocks all traffic if the VPN disconnects, and it comes with all kinds of great features, including Mace, PIA's built-in malware blocker. PIA supports multiple VPN protocols and encryption levels, letting you dial in the exact level of protection you need. 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