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Corsair, with one of the most iconic logo of any hardware company. Which they wanted to change to a super generic "tramp-stamp" logo a couple of years back - but actually backtracked after community revolt. https://www.eteknix.com/corsair-respond-to-community-feedbac...
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The One is actually a pretty good deal if you want something of that form factor that isn’t a laptop in a box. It’s completely water cooled and the majority of the parts are reusable/pc compatible. Building something of that small factor will cost you a lot in exotic and custom parts. For what it is the markup isn’t actually terrible it’s pretty cheap considering it costs about as much or even less than some standard…
SFF build will not cost you more, unless you custom watercool it. Custom watercooling is only necessary if you're going for a super optimized build. SFF cases are around $250-300, which is $150-200 more than a similar-quality ATX case. SFF CPU coolers are around the same price. SFF PSUs and motherboards have a small markup over ATX. For example, here's a build for $3600. The GPU is not watercooled, though, since you…
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Guess what building a pc is not worth it. It's not worth it in frustration or anything else. It's better to buy a commercial business grade desktop with a support contract. They always have some kind of weird power issue or something. However, I might just be butthurt about my desktop that randomly reboots and was built by a friend, and I can't figure out what is wrong with it.
Guess what building a pc is not worth it. I am not sure that going to a site calling itself "Hacker" News and writing such a comment is not blatant trolling. Or maybe this is a sad side effect of developers using Macs. I am useless at building things and I built a PC that has never given me problems. I even bought the wrong case! The fix for some kind of weird power issue is to roughly calculate what kind of power yo…
Sort-of-ish related: A few years back they started making gaming PCs. I was looking for something slick, discreet, but still fairly powerful. I bought a Corsair One, and I've been super happy since then. It's exactly what I wanted and I haven't had any issues with it. So if you were looking at their gaming PCs, you now know 1 random HN reader is super satisfied and recommends them.
Can Corsair One run Linux? I have heard that water cooling software for example does not have Linux support.
Water cooling itself has nothing to control, but there’s just the pump to be run at full speed at all time, and fans to cool radiators like you normally do with air coolers.
Corsair, with one of the most iconic logo of any hardware company. Which they wanted to change to a super generic "tramp-stamp" logo a couple of years back - but actually backtracked after community revolt. https://www.eteknix.com/corsair-respond-to-community-feedbac...
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The One is actually a pretty good deal if you want something of that form factor that isn’t a laptop in a box. It’s completely water cooled and the majority of the parts are reusable/pc compatible. Building something of that small factor will cost you a lot in exotic and custom parts. For what it is the markup isn’t actually terrible it’s pretty cheap considering it costs about as much or even less than some standard…
Are we looking at the same Corsair One that runs $2,200 in its cheapest variant? Because I built a SFF form factor PC with equivalent specs and zero exotic parts that fits in a case the size of a console (Dr Zaber case), all for under $1500. It's a bit trickier if you want to water cool it, but I'm not sure why you need to if you use an AMD CPU (much better performance/watt) and don't overclock your GPU.
You’ll need a DC-DC set up and a custom one to boot, and an external water loop.
Not to mention that even building an air cooled SFF build is hard, SFF components are rare in many countries and often require you to import it yourself which adds a big premium in the form of import fees, you also need an SFX PSU for that case and one of the smaller ones to boot as well as likely do your own custom sized cables to actually fit things in.
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SFF build will not cost you more, unless you custom watercool it. Custom watercooling is only necessary if you're going for a super optimized build. SFF cases are around $250-300, which is $150-200 more than a similar-quality ATX case. SFF CPU coolers are around the same price. SFF PSUs and motherboards have a small markup over ATX. For example, here's a build for $3600. The GPU is not watercooled, though, since you…
I didn’t know that the prebuilt market had gotten so competitive. Only a $400 premium to build, water cool, and warranty the damn thing? It’s a bargain.
The Corsair One is the first pre-built I was actually considering buying because of its form factor, use of more or less standard PC parts and the warranty and serviceability of it.
Is it weird that 3 tech companies (Palantir, Corsair, AirBnB) are IPOing or starting the process to IPO at the same time?
The IPO process takes a while, so is it really that surprising that a bunch of companies might have overlapping periods of IPO activity?
If a bunch of companies in the same sector, that compete with each other, went to IPO around the same time, that might be a _little_ weird, but this is largely just a coincidence. AirBnB has been anticipated for a while, Palantir needs the cash, and Corsair, well, I dunno what's really up there, but they're gonna try to IPO too. Either way, it mainly seems like a coincidence for these three.
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I second this. The level of integration in a custom case is not even comparable to an enterprise business desktop. I finally bought a Dell Precision 5810 and it blew my mind how professional the entire case was. Every single little thing had a dust guard, or a clip, or a wire holder or its own little cooling fan. The graphics cards had support brackets. The hard drive bays had these fantastic multi-fit caddies, and t…
The downside of that integration is it makes upgrading much more fraught. For example, if you want to add or upgrade a video card, you might need to replace the PSU. But you might find that the PSU is a non-standard size, or that it has non-standard connectors.