Sorry if someone has already answered this but i was curious if anyone with their pimax headset happened to also own a corsair one pc? Really curious to see how the 1080 ti corsair one pc performs with either pimax headset?
Thanks
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I don’t have one but do you have a convenient link to specs?
Here we go:
CORSAIR ONE PRO PLUS
GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, 480GB M.2 SSD
CPU: INTEL I7-8700K, LIQUID COOLED
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, LIQUID COOLED
DRAM: 16GB 2666MHZ DDR4
STORAGE:480GB M.2 NVME SSD, 2TB HDD
MOTHERBOARD: Z370
PSU: 500W SFX, 80 PLUS GOLD
CORSAIR ONE ELITE
GTX 1080 Ti, 32GB DDR4, 480GB M.2 SSD
CPU: INTEL I7-8700K, LIQUID COOLED
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, LIQUID COOLED
DRAM: 32GB 2666MHZ DDR4
STORAGE: 480GB M.2 NVME SSD, 2TB HDD
MOTHERBOARD: Z370
PSU: 500W SFX, 80 PLUS GOLD
CORSAIR ONE PRO
GTX 1080, 16GB DDR4, 480GB M.2 SSD
CPU: INTEL I7-7700K, LIQUID COOLED
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080, LIQUID COOLED
DRAM: 16GB 2400MHZ DDR4
STORAGE: 480GB M.2 NVME SSD, 2TB HDD
MOTHERBOARD: Z270
PSU:400W SFX, 80 PLUS GOLD
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Thanks, on paper they definitely seem to be solid comparisons to a conventional size gaming pc with the same components but things on paper don’t always translate as well in real life and i was just more curious than anything to see if anyone had any real world experience as i was strongly considering getting one of these just to have a dedicated VR PC in my living room that would not stick out as much as my existing full size tower.
Also, i hear that corsair will be launching a version with the RTX cards eventually so if that truly pans out in the near future i might just consider waiting to get a slightly better GPU on one of these.
Thanks everyone
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Looks like @SweViver rig minus 16g of ram. 
Doesn’t really matter if it is built by corsair or not. The components count. This is a decent gaming PC. The RAM could be better but we are talking about maybe 1-3% real world performance difference in games here.
I don’t see why this Corsair One shouldn’t be good for the Pimax headsets.
These are not available where I live but from googling it it seems tobe quite a high price is asked for it.
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Liquid cooling could mean higher turbo, but otherwise it there shouldn’t be any major difference.
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These looks like solid systems on the specs, except maybe that the PSU specs are somewhat weak for these configs, and I know that Corsair low to mid end psu’s are a little weak and not always affordable about clean and constant current output.
The 1080Ti is very stressful on the PSU, and even the plain 1080 requires a very clean and constant power supply input to work perfectly and without any power spikes, better going for at least a 700W PSU that is certified Platinum or Titanium , you will have a much more stable Pc.
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This. 500W might look enough on paper but PSU does not work efficiently when close to it’s limit. I’ve similar setup with 750W PSU.
Especially with water cooling you should use the oc potential of gpu /cpu, and that costs power.
With such expensive components you should not save on a power supply unit. I recently bought a seasonic prime gold 750 after my 10 year old enermax infinity 720 started causing problems.
I wouldn’t recommend any of these 3 configurations with a 1080Ti. An overclocked 1080Ti can hit above 400W on its own. Dont go below 750W.
Also RAM speeds below 3000/3200Mhz will bottleneck your system in more CPU demanding titles, especially with coffee lake. 2666Mhz is very low and 2400Mhz is hilarious. They really cheaped out on that…
And “z370” doesnt say much about the mobo. With a cheap mobo u wont be able to OC much, at least not get it stable above 4.7.
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well , I’m not sure but my wattmeter newer show more than 420 wat during vr session and my config have more hardware inside ( 2x ssd , 4 x hdd, 3x pcie exprees cards, 12 usb devices ) than corsar one. Cosrair PSU is gold , should keep solid power in first 2 years 
Memory agree not good enough.
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Hey its @SweViver the man the myth the legend himself. Thanks for the feedback, its such a nice compact package it seems really attractive for a compact VR solution so thanks for the feedback on the components. Maybe the next version with the RTX GPU’s will be better…
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Agree partially, but the Mhz myth is not all that counts, it has been created mostly by Intel to instill the idea that they were the top notch in the market.
In real world performance it is far more important that you try to go for the best memory timings, even if this would mean sacrificing memory clock speeds, because it is the primary factor slowing down a Cpu, waiting for the memory cycles to complete and then access the next batch, and not the bandwidth… Cpu’s today are fast enough, it’s the memory cycles that makes it work slowed down, even if you go as far as the today’s best 3666 DDR4, the huge timings of these modules will make the Cpu to work like a fat hungry kid chomping a pie one quarter at a time, and then wait 25 seconds to chew it…this is how extremely clocked rams operate, it makes very little sense… and in some cases you will get worser performance than on lower clocked 2666 DDR4 that have been configured to operate at 14-14-14 CAS timings, yes there will be less bandwidth and the fat kid will eat a spoonfull of pie at a time, but waiting only 2-3 seconds between one and the other…hope my funny example got the idea 
So in a sense, it’s better to to opt for the best compromise between RAM clock and memory timings, like for example some 3000 or 3200 DDR4 at 15-15-15 timings (sometimes you get exotic 15-16-16 or any other similiar but it’s still good enough), because the Cpu will have the means to operate at it’s best with less bottlenecked memory access due to the bigger chunks accessed per clock cycle.
The only downside of this is that CAS 14 or 15 Rams are very expensive…
Do not always believe all the hype coming from the hardware companies today, real world performance are often VERY different from the sponsored features on paper, and are sometimes just marketing myths, like clock speeds or any other eye-candy feature…as the Nvidia RTX line pretty much have shown recently…
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Watt drain is not the only factor, it’s true very few Pc configurations go over 500-600W of power consumption, but there’s another thing to consider, most PSU’s start to give off power spikes and no constant voltage to some or every 12V 5V and 3.3V rails, if the wattage draw approximates 80% of the PSU capacity, this means that a 500W PSU can only work efficiently to up to 400 watts or slightly less (depends a lot on the PSU components quality), that’s why these are branded as “80+ Gold certified” for example, it means they are guaranteed to work at 80% of their power, but at these levels you have A LOT of chance of incurring in a graphic card or an hard disk drive receiving an unconstant 3.3V or 5V power, doesn’t look a big problem but chances are that in some of the worst cases you will get write errors on the hard drive, and a graphic card struggling to mantain max performance…
If you go in your mainboard bios voltage checking page, you can see if the various power rails are keeping the required voltage, an excellent PSU will always give out a little more than the required, like for example 5.15V on the 5V rails, and 3.36V on the 3.3 rails, and NEVER go below the required 5 or 3.3 , otherwise it is not a good PSU, or just a cheap general use one.
So it is always a good thing to go over 700W PSU’s with the best certification possible (titanium or platinum) because this will guarantee you that the current will be always stable and a little higher than expected, up to 560W of power drain, and in extreme gaming configurations with overclocked CPU and GPU, chances are high that it would happen.
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common knowledge but thanks 
BTW :
Bronze is rated for at least 85% efficiency at 50% load and 82 % at 100 % load
Cosair Gold is rated for at least 90% efficiency at 50% load and around 87 % at 100% load
https://www.corsair.com/eu/en/blog/80-plus-platinum-what-does-it-mean-and-what-is-the-benefit-to-me
So I’m saying that in Corair One scenario ( without adding HW) this PSU should be enough in first 2~3 or 5 years.
I don’t think so that their tech. ppl are stupid and do not stress their gaming PC build during internal tests.
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Interesting! But as far as I understand it, the faster RAM MHz you get, the more you can tweak the CL?
This is why Im running my 4000Mhz CL19 at 3800Mhz and CL15 atm. Instead of overclocking the speed, i downclock to get headroom for better cas latency.
Im really not an expert and still haven’t really understood or found the optimal setting for my config, but I can clearly see 3800Mhz and CL15 gave noticeably better CPU and memory scores last time I checked, compared to 4000Mhz and CL19 
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Yeah…these are the sponsored figures, but when you accurately test dozens upon dozens of PSU brands, a VERY different scenario comes to life…believe me.
Any serious gamer or VR enthusiast should avoid bronze, silver and even cheap gold PSU’s, they are built with cheap components, assembled in China by paid workers with starvation wages, and enginereed quickly, really good PSU units rarely cost less than 150 Euro, and even the ones sponsored as bests, sometimes have engineering defects, and Corsair low end ones fall in this category.
I have encountered so many gold certified PSU’s in my life, that were giving off dirty voltages and so many electrical spikes that I ended up buying only the best brands in the over 700W category, and recommending the same to my company’s customers, unless these are going to be destined to office machines intended for simple office tasks.
Yeah, that is the way to do it, and…pheww…to go 4000 CL19 with a perfectly stable system you must have some 500 euros modules, as in years of testing and buiding machines I never had the pleasure to keep a perfectly stable system to such high frequancy/CL ratios
There are some bootable, linux based or any Dos based cd utilities that lets you accurately test ram stability under stress, and it is very possible that you will see multiple read/write errors if you test the rams under such heavy settings for longer times, sometimes a windows system just keeps repeating the cycles with errors, whitout crashing the Os, but this way your system will have to continuously repeat the failed memory reads/writes, thus leading to a cpu slowdown, without you even realizing it is happening.
While there are 3400 DDR4 modules that can be downclocked to as high as 3200 CL13 , and costing just 1/4 of the most extreme clocked ones, that just do the same latency if clocked at the same 3200 Mhz…it’s not a very convenient way to choose RAM modules
Of course it is, but either your memory modules are probably the most expensive on the market or these may be incurring in errors without you ever noticing, with such aggressive settings, and any unstable memory system means wasted clock cycles that have to be repeated to be executed correctly, or in worst case, giving Windows and/or game crashes, so be sure you’re running the best possible overclock/CL ratio without incurring in memory errors.
For anyone interested, this is one of the most affordable memory tests available also for free, even used by professionals for lab memory testing:
Just make a bootable Cd or Usb drive and boot the machine into the testing utility to verify if your system ram works error free with your choosen overclocked speed and CL timings.
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