Corsair one, Thoughts?

Voicon · 26 Apr 2017 at 19:34

Hi

I was looking for a small form factor silentish PC for the living room (behind TV) that has power, didn't really want to build it myself, not very well at the moment and not done custom water cooling before.

The Corsair One looks good and gets good reviews and can be upgraded in future if needed, do you think it's over priced or should I look at something else?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...tel-core-i7-7700k-gtx-1080-8gb-fs-001-cs.html

Cheers

HoneyBadger · 26 Apr 2017 at 20:02

It's very clever, very convenient. Also consider the 2nd gen MSI Vortex

Voicon · 26 Apr 2017 at 20:12

HoneyBadger said:
It's very clever, very convenient. Also consider the 2nd gen MSI Vortex

Thanks, but I won't consider MSI after their MXM upgrade support nightmare.

HoneyBadger · 26 Apr 2017 at 20:21

Voicon said:
Thanks, but I won't consider MSI after their MXM upgrade support nightmare.

Fair enough, MXM upgrades are expensive. At least the C1 has a full sized GPU

Voicon · 26 Apr 2017 at 20:27

HoneyBadger said:
Fair enough, MXM upgrades are expensive. At least the C1 has a full sized GPU

Yeah, I bought a GT72 but was ill and in hospital during the "upgrade" program, I emailed them but was a week late and they said it was closed, not closed in the USA though, I'm still going through treatment and don't have the time or energy to spend fighting them on it. Decided that there enough getting anymore of my hard earned cash.

HoneyBadger · 26 Apr 2017 at 21:06

Understandable.

From what I've seen, the C1 is pretty good. In reviews there were only two issues:

1) No m.2 drive despite there being an m.2 slot
2) Price

Voicon · 26 Apr 2017 at 21:13

HoneyBadger said:
Understandable.

From what I've seen, the C1 is pretty good. In reviews there were only two issues:

1) No m.2 drive despite there being an m.2 slot
2) Price

Was it a M.2 PCIe or just ssd?

I just had a quick look and couldn't see the spec.

HoneyBadger · 27 Apr 2017 at 06:44

The slot on the MSI board can take PCIE and SATA3 drives.

Voicon · 27 Apr 2017 at 06:54

Thanks, it's a bit steep having spent £2.2k and having to put your own m.2 as well I guess, paying a premium for the SFF built.

HoneyBadger · 27 Apr 2017 at 07:07

Yep. Do a search, I was discussing it with someone else on a different thread but it would appear that if you did buy an m.2 drive you would have to strip down the C1 completely as the slot is on the back of the motherboard, and there were questions regarding warranty etc.

Considering Corsair do their own m.2 drives now, it's a bit of a joke that they don't offer one in the C1!

You could consider a Corsair Bulldog, I have one and it's pretty good.

Voicon · 27 Apr 2017 at 09:31

HoneyBadger said:
Yep. Do a search, I was discussing it with someone else on a different thread but it would appear that if you did buy an m.2 drive you would have to strip down the C1 completely as the slot is on the back of the motherboard, and there were questions regarding warranty etc.

Considering Corsair do their own m.2 drives now, it's a bit of a joke that they don't offer one in the C1!

You could consider a Corsair Bulldog, I have one and it's pretty good.

Interesting, the bulldog 2.0 looks really good, barebones is £400 then I can out whatever I want in it for much less than £2k.

Thanks!

pastymuncher · 27 Apr 2017 at 09:46

It's overpriced, no M2 drive and they have crippled the 7700k with slow ram. You need 3000mhz+ to get the most out of a 7700k. If I remember right there is as much as 20% performance gain when using 3000mhz over 2400mhz. See here near the bottom of the page. There is a video review that shows it better but I can't find it.

Voicon · 27 Apr 2017 at 10:23

pastymuncher said:
It's overpriced, no M2 drive and they have crippled the 7700k with slow ram. You need 3000mhz+ to get the most out of a 7700k. If I remember right there is as much as 20% performance gain when using 3000mhz over 2400mhz. See here near the bottom of the page. There is a video review that shows it better but I can't find it.

Thanks, that very interesting, 20% is not sure small amount!

I am leaning away from the C1, the bulldog looks good and I can put my own components in.

@HoneyBadger how quiet is yours? I understand it will depend on gfx card etc.

HoneyBadger · 27 Apr 2017 at 11:04

@Voicon - The stock fans are pretty loud so I replaced them (2x92mm ones) with PWM controlled and setup a good fan curve, you can barely hear it now.

I have an Asus Strix Z270i on mine with the original H5 SF cooler, a 7700K and a Titan X with an AIO on it - temps and sound are good. Make sure you get the 2.0 kit though, I've essentially taken mine manually up to v2.0 (Apart from the CPU cooler) and it's great.

Voicon · 27 Apr 2017 at 12:17

HoneyBadger said:
@Voicon - The stock fans are pretty loud so I replaced them (2x92mm ones) with PWM controlled and setup a good fan curve, you can barely hear it now.

I have an Asus Strix Z270i on mine with the original H5 SF cooler, a 7700K and a Titan X with an AIO on it - temps and sound are good. Make sure you get the 2.0 kit though, I've essentially taken mine manually up to v2.0 (Apart from the CPU cooler) and it's great.

Thanks again, much appreciated.

I will start spec'ing one up now