Around back live four more USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports, a pair of USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports (one Type-A and one Type-C), as well as dual Ethernet jacks and the usual accoutrement of audio connectors.


The graphics card has a trio of DisplayPorts. Noticeably lacking here is the USB-C-shaped VirtualLink port, designed for future VR headsets, that ships on most RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. That could be a detractor if you’re specifically buying this system for VR, but even then, there will almost certainly be adapters that will let you plug VirtualLink headsets into standard HDMI and USB ports.

Again, the port selection here is likely sufficient for most. But professional users with multiple external storage drives or other peripherals may find the eight total USB ports here limiting. Remember that you’ll lose two to a keyboard and mouse unless you’re using some kind of wireless set with a unifying receiver.


As with the One i160, getting into the system is a matter of pressing a button at the rear top of the system (note that you have to press this button with serious force) and popping off the top with its integrated fan. Once that’s done and you’ve set the top aside, removing four screws on the steel frame lets you open the side panels. You’ll want to be careful when doing so, though, as both panels are attached to radiators via fairly short tubes.


Looking at internal upgrade options, there’s a spare M.2 slot behind the motherboard, but you’d have to remove the whole board (which is more complicated than normal thanks to a couple of daughter boards) to do so.


Corsair says the AIO CPU cooler here is capable of handling up to 165 watts. So you could theoretically upgrade the CPU up to an 18-core i9-9980XE in the future. But the 12-core i9-9920X is seriously capable in its own right, as we’ll see shortly in our testing.