The Corsair One i140 – Gaming PC System Review

Acoustics & Temperatures

As you may have noted earlier in our review, the Corsair One i140 only has one main exhaust fan. In addition to this, while the processor and graphics card does have independant AIO liquid cooling, both of these run ‘passively’ with no fans attached to the radiators.

As such, temperature and noise performance was, perhaps more than other tests, our latest key interest. So, how did it do? Well, the short answer is, much better than we expected!

CPU Temperatures

Achieving a maximum temperature of 70c is, for a system this small, more than a little impressive. This is, of course, in no small part due to the excellent design of the chassis, albeit Corsairs reputation for AIO liquid coolers is very strong.

GPU Temperatures

Very surprisingly, the graphics card temperatures were amazingly low. This is, of course, helped by the fact that this does have liquid cooling which, on the whole, isn’t common for most desktop systems.

Only achieving a maximum temperature of 64c, however, is amazingly impressive.

Acoustics

So, for this excellent performance in temperatures, is there a trade-off in noise levels? Well, surprisingly, no. The Corsair One i140 was amazingly quiet throughout it’s operation.

It should be noted that the system in it’s entirety only has 3 actual fans. One for the graphics card heat sink, one for the power supply and the main exhaust fan to the top. As such, there isn’t, strictly speaking, much that could actually produce noise here.

While the main exhaust vent does occasionally get a little vocal it is never intrusive and, on the whole, makes the acoustic performance perhaps the most surprising/not-surprising aspect of this entire review.