Corsair One i140 and i160 (2019) Review (3440×1440 120hz Gaming)

1. Introduction2. The Corsair One / Gallery3. Setting the System up/iCue4. Cooling, Noise and Power Consumption5. Gaming Performance6. Overclocking (inc Intel's Performance Maximiser)7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

G-SYNC and V-SYNC are disabled for all game benchmarks. Highest image quality settings are used. Resolution was set to 3440 x 1440 @ 120hz on the Alienware 3418DW 34 inch curved Ultrawide monitor.

FAR CRY NEW DAWN

Both systems are able to maintain well over 60 frames per second at all times. For the high refresh 120hz monitor however, the 2080 ti system is able to hold figures closer to 100 fps at all times. In real world gaming terms it would be hard to tell the difference to be honest – although I would normally be running with G-SYNC turned on anyway.

SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER

With the image quality settings on full, the RTX 2080 is able to hold an average frame rate close to 90. The RTX 2080 ti is able to push close to 105.

With RTX Ray Traced Shadow Quality set to ULTRA – the frame rate drops significantly – not an issue really on a 60hz monitor, but we want to try and get the frame rates as close as possible to 120 for the maximum gaming experience with this particular monitor.

METRO EXODUS

We test with the benchmark running at HIGH, ULTRA and EXTREME settings.

This is a very demanding engine at the default benchmark settings, not entirely indicative of real world gaming to be honest.

I decided to run more of a ‘Real world' test by using the high profile, but turning off Hairworks, and Advanced PhysX.

A much smoother experience and noticeably better to play on the Corsair i160 with RTX 2080 ti. If you are using a 60hz monitor, the RTX 2080 ti keeps above this sweet spot all the time.

WORLD WAR Z

All of the ingame settings were set to maximum at 3440×1440.

This isn't a particularly demanding engine with the Corsair i140 with RTX 2080 able to hold a frame rate over 100 at all times. The Corsair i160 with RTX 2080 ti pushes an average of over 140 frames per second and can maintain close to 120frames per second at all times. Super Smooth in the real world.

TOTAL WAR: THREE KINGDOMS

We set image quality to the maximum – the ingame ULTRA profile.

Another demanding game which would require lower image quality settings to get closer to 100fps. Still the RTX 2080 ti system maintains an average over 60 which is impressive.

DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED

We are using the very high preset.

Strong all round performance at such taxing settings – still a demanding game three years after it was released.

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