TheOverclocker Issue 42 | Page 23

COOLING So this is probably one of the most important aspects of the CORSAIR ONE. In fact, what allows the system to be this compact has a lot to do with the cooling choices CORSAIR has made. There’s only a single 140mm fan and this fan is responsible for not only drawing air into the system, but exhausting it as well. What happens is that cool air is drawn in from the bottom and the sides of the machine, passes through the radiators within the machine and is then exhausted via this 140mm fan at the top of the chassis. This cooling method works on a simple, but effective mechanism of creating negative air pressure and negates the need for multiple fans within the system. At first I doubted how effective this cooling method would be but it turns out that it is not only effective, but makes for a quiet system as well. Just as long as you’re not blocking any of the air intakes on the system, the CORSAIR ONE will keep temperatures in check and you’ll experience no performance or clock throttling at all. The GPU in particular is effectively cooled by this method as load temperatures rarely exceed the 58’C mark, which is truly impressive. The CPU, on the other hand, will see temperatures as high as 84’C, but that has a lot do with the atrocious thermal interface material that INTEL has been using on their CPUs for some time. In the same environment and employing the same cooling, it is likely that a delidded CPU would operate at a much lower temperature. That said, these are not temperatures that should concern you at all as they are more than normal and the CPU is designed to operate at such temperatures reliably. The enthusiast in me would have loved to see CORSAIR employ a delidded CPU for this, further leveraging their cooling expertise, but this isn’t that kind of machine. Moreover there are other considerations regarding warranties and the like which much be considered and weighed. Using such a CPU might result in overall lower temperatures it ultimately does nothing for the user experience, but may affect the pricing of the machine quite negatively. CONNECTIVITY As you might expect from a premium PC, the CORSAIR ONE features the usual connectivity options, such as USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 support, but it does one better by having a front HDMI 2.0 connector. This is obviously for VR headsets and avoid you having to reach behind the machine. Useful for those with VR headsets and into that sort of thing, but not really useful outside of that. Issue 42 | 2017 The OverClocker 23