All Specs
The Corsair One continues to be our favorite compact high-performance gaming desktop. The latest model, the One a200 ($3,799 as tested), harnesses AMD s powerful Ryzen 5000 desktop silicon and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card for truly smooth 4K frame rates in today s toughest PC games. Though costly, like all things related to gaming hardware these days, the Corsair delivers a top-notch build, ultracompact dimensions, and blissfully quiet liquid-cooled operation. Indeed, it leaves few desires unmet from a power-user and aesthetic perspective. The One a200 easily claims our Editors Choice crown for a gaming desktop in this class.
That s a New One
Anandtech has let the cat out of the bag some 3 weeks early! breaking Intel s embargo that s keeping the big tech toobers mouths tightly closed on their 11th Gen CPU s that were supposed to be the answer to AMD s highly successful Zen 3 5000 CPU s.
Unfortunately just as many techies were expecting Intel s 8 core 14+++++ nanometre CPU s are a big fat FAIL, if it were a rocket then it would have exploded on LAUNCH!
Even at stock settings Intel s rocket lake 8 core processors under load RUN VERY HOT At over 80c, which is not surprising given they consume an eye watering 225watts of power for an 8 core processor, even worse are spikes to over 290watts! Compare that against a 5950x with TWICE the cores that consumes 225watts so it s no wonder that Intel dropped the core count from 10th gen 10 cores to 11th gen s 8 cores.