Corsair One a200

Slim, sleek, and brimming with power

- ZAK STOREY

THE CORSAIR ONE has always impressed us. It follows a line of crazy, out-there ITX towers that have tickled our fancy over the years. From NZXT’s H1 chassis to the tiny liquid-cooled Shift X we built, there’s just something about packing as much power into as small a box as possible that really does get the tech juices flowing. So, when we got a chance to take an in-depth look at the latest updated variant, we jumped at the opportunity.

The Corsair One was, by design, a unique piece of engineering when it first debuted back in 2017, and it still is, in a lot of ways. Back then, a single 140mm fan placed at the top cooled the entire system through negative pressure and some very clever engineering. The chassis was split down the middle—on one side you had your standard ITX motherboard, on the other a full-length GPU of some description. Both the processor and the GPU were cooled by 240mm radiators on either side, but neither had any fans attached. Instead, that single 140mm fan pulled air through the chassis, then up out the top. It’s clever and worked well to keep the case both cool and quiet.