This new Corsair mini gaming PC somehow contains two 240mm AIO coolers

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 CPU in check, meaning both the CPU and GPU are liquid cooled, despite the tight confines of the chassis.

We're not just talking about a low-end CPU or GPU either – this new mini gaming PC comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, which has 24 cores, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, the best graphics card in its league, meaning this rig has plenty of gaming power on tap. Proving that you don't lose much by going for a small PC these days, the 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 Corsair One i500 review, and there's a choice of front panel finishes again too, including bright and dark wood options, as well as a dark metallic front. While it was a great piece of technical engineering, however, one of our main criticisms of the One i500 was its reliance on a small 120mm AIO cooler to keep down the temperature of the notoriously toasty 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 CPU. This means the CPU 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 CPUs can't compete with AMD's latest chips when it comes to gaming. Since our Core Ultra 7 265K review, however, the new Intel 200S boost feature has been added to improve gaming pace, and a new update resulted in an 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 CPUs 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 CPU 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.

If you're looking for an even smaller rig, check out our Geekom AX8 Pro review, and also read our guide to the best mini gaming PC, which takes you through all our favorite options right now.

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