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  • sonicmerlin - Saturday, August 5, 2017 - link

    It looks great. Just hate the "ONE" branding. Ridiculously cliche.
  • marc1000 - Sunday, August 6, 2017 - link

    it looks great, but the inside and passive radiators seem like a heat-trap. it will certainly take a considerable time to heat up (so much water and all that), but this thing will stay hot for a long time.
  • icedeocampo - Monday, August 7, 2017 - link

    Was the previous brand 360?
  • philehidiot - Saturday, August 5, 2017 - link

    Is it just me being out of date (been a while since I built a PC) but is a 400W PSU a little tight and potentially going to be pushing said PSU to the limit far too often?
  • Billy Tallis - Saturday, August 5, 2017 - link

    They're really 600+ W power supplies that have been de-rated due to the higher expected operating temperatures in the Corsair ONE. They aren't going to burn out easily. Higher wattage might be warranted in a larger machine that could have more power-hungry components added aftermarket, but these PSUs are plenty for what actually fits in the Corsair ONE.
  • HomeworldFound - Sunday, August 6, 2017 - link

    There's a 600W passive power supply on the market now so perhaps system builders like Corsair will switch to that.
  • lioncat55 - Saturday, August 5, 2017 - link

    Linustechtips built a small form factor PC with the same specs (plus they OCed the CPU) and used a 300W PSU. Even when gaming not all parts are pushed to their max power draw. A 400W PSU should not have any issues.
  • Flunk - Sunday, August 6, 2017 - link

    Current Gen GPUs are a lot less power hungry than last-gen ones were.

    The 1080 TI has a 250W TDP, the 7700K 91W those are the only big power draws in this system so it should be just fine. Now if you were building a system yourself, you might want to put a little more capacity in there for future expansion, but OEMs don't care about that and will just spec a PSU for the components they ship in the system to save a few bucks.
  • mbarr - Sunday, August 6, 2017 - link

    Power supplies are generally not efficient at power draws 50% and below of their maximum rating. Power supply efficiency tends to increase towards 80% of maximum rating and then falls off a little, so it is better to match your power supply to expected power draw. eg installing a 600W power supply when you're only expecting to draw 300W is wasteful of energy and $.
  • philehidiot - Monday, August 7, 2017 - link

    Cheers to all for your enlightening replies.
  • DanNeely - Monday, August 7, 2017 - link

    The only PSUs that have their efficiency peak around 80% are some fanless ones that are made by derating significantly more powerful fanned models. Anything else will peak around 50% and have good efficiency from at least ~20% load. Below that's generally more miss than hit, only the latest 80+ spec (Titanium - 90% efficiency at 10% load) has a requirement below 20%; most other PSUs fall off the cliff somewhere below that point as components with a fixed power draw dominate over those whose power consumed is proportional to the output. Even derated type fanless ones will be reasonably efficient at 20% because they need to be to get an 80+ rating; although the shift right in the 20% level means that they normally end up with a lower 80+ ratings than their base models or efficiencies at load would suggest.
  • wilmer007 - Monday, August 7, 2017 - link

    overprice pre builts as usual. nothing to see here folks just a company trying to scam suckers. go find someone who is more than willing to give you the same specs and build it for you for way less than that.
  • Tim_D - Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - link

    Of course - I just purchased the old one.
    Support has been "iffy". They have a 24x7 phone support line, but that's pretty much level 1 support. I submitted a ticket through their support site and I'm still waiting for a reply 3 weeks later.
    My ticket? I'd like to have a manual maybe?

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