Corsair has updated its mini gaming PC lineup with a new model that squeezes a pair of 240mm AIO coolers into its tiny chassis. This gives the new Corsair One i600 a significant advantage over the i500, which only had a 120mm AIO cooler to keep its U in check, meaning both the U and GPU are liquid cooled, despite the tight confines of the chassis.
We're not just talking about a low-end U or GPU either – this new mini gaming PC comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, which has 24 cores, and an Corsair One i600 also comes with a massive 64GB of DDR5 RAM in its top configuration, as well as a pair of 2TB NVMe SSDs, giving you 4TB of high-speed storage.
It's all housed in a similar-looking chassis to its predecessor, which impressed us with its fast gaming performance in our Intel Core i9 14900K.
That problem looks like it will be easily solved by this new design, which somehow shoehorns a pair of 240mm AIO coolers into its small, vent-covered case, one for the GPU and one for the U. This means the U gets a decent cooling system too, and the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K is also much more thermally efficient than the Core i9 14900K, so it's less likely to overheat and throttle.
On the downside, in our tests, the latest Intel Arrow Lake Us can't compete with AMD's latest chips when it comes to gaming. Since our Intel Cyberpunk 2077 performance boost too.
However, if you're looking for a system that can handle both work and play, the Core Ultra 9 285K is still a decent choice – AMD's new Us are quicker when it comes to gaming, but this chip's 24 cores make it a formidable choice for heavily multi-threaded workloads, such as 3D rendering and video encoding.
Either way, it's a remarkable feat of engineering that Corsair has managed to not only squeeze a water-cooled high-end U and GPU into this tiny rig, but also to cool each of them properly with a 240mm radiator. That should hopefully mean the Corsair One i600 runs quieter than the i500, too. It's very far from cheap, though – the RTX 5080 model with a Core Ultra 9 285K and 64GB of RAM is currently listed for $4,999.99 – hopefully, cheaper versions with lower specs will also be available soon.
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