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Hi @Hazardist, the short answer is no, you can't use the integrated GPU with an external display. The long answer is that the original Corsair One 2017 uses a customised MSI Z270I motherboard that had the HDMI and DisplayPorts ports removed from the motherboard itself. So even if you went into BIOS to enable the integrated GPU (assuming your CPU has one) there would be no way to connect it. I know this since I removed the original motherboard and replaced it with a retail MSI Z490I and i9-10900 CPU, and have tested the integrated GPU with the motherboard ports in my new configuration. The original MSI Z270I Corsair motherboard is below, and at the top right you can see an empty space where the HDMI and DisplayPorts ports were supposed to be (in between the USB3.1 ports and the USB2/PS2 ports). Note all this applies to external displays. I'm not familiar Facebook's Horizon Workrooms, but I suppose it may be possible to fool the software by enabling the integrated GPU in BIOS, then mirroring the PCIe GPU and integrated GPU displays in Windows... just thinking out loud!

Hi @ProfessorWinter, some good news at my end and I now have the case fan dynamically following the M.2 SSD/system temp nicely. My system is a little complex since I swapped out the original MSI Z270I motherboard that came with the Corsair One Pro 2017 for a newer MSI Z490I with i9-10900 CPU, but I'm still using the original CPU and GPU fan pumps and radiators. I had observed that my M.2 SSD temp was pretty much identical to the "system" temp reported by MSI BIOS, so I bought a fan extension cable and reconnected the original case fan from the GPU pump to the system fan header on the motherboard. In the MSI BIOS I configured the system fan in PWM mode and programmed it to start spinning at 50% at 0 degrees and ramp up from there. Under casual use the SSD temp stabilises around 50 degrees C with fan at 70% and is almost inaudible. The only downside is that the fan shows as 0 rpm in Corsair Link since it's not connected to the pumps, but more importantly Corsair Link shows my SSD temp at a safer level. My system may be different to yours but I'm pretty sure the same solution could work for you. Good luck!

What was the outcome @ProfessorWinter? My case fan also idles just above 400rpm when set to "Auto" in Corsair Link, but at that speed my M.2 SSD ramps up well over 60 degrees C. Setting the case fan to "Max" in Corsair Link for a minute or two will lower the M.2 SSD temp back down to a reasonable 55C, but is very noisy. I'd like to try setting case fan to idle around 800rpm to see if that's a fair compromise of noise and M.2 SSD temp.

And here's the temps while idly writing on the forums:

Thanks to the encouragement of @EchoSierra and @chunkyone I bit the bullet and upgraded my Corsair One Pro 2017 model from it's original MSI Z270I / i7-7700K / 16GB to brand new MSI Z490I / i9-10900 / 32GB and added a 500GB M.2 SSD. Since both motherboards were MSI the cable routing and connections were almost identical and I only had two issues: 1. (Minor) CPU_PWR1 had to be rerouted from left side to right side as per the pics, but the original cable was the perfect length so all I had to do was cable tie it to the chassis on the right. 2. (Major) This one is unresolved: the blue LEDs on the front of the Corsair One were connected to the JLED1 pins on the Z270I, which according to the manual are 12V. The Z490I doesn't have a JLED1 port and the nearest match is JRAINBOW1, which the manual says is 5V and has different pin assignments. For the moment I've had to leave the blue power LED disconnected, which is annoying because the machine is so quiet you can only tell it's powered on by looking at your USB peripherals. Any tips to adapt JRAINBOW1 to JLED1 would be appreciated! (BTW I don't really want to rip open the chassis and replace the LEDs if I can avoid it.)

That's awesome news, thanks @EchoSierra! I

Greetings all from Melbourne. I was just about to order an MSI Z490I UNIFY for my 2017 Corsair One Pro until I saw this post... the Z490I looks similar to the original Z270I apart from the additional heatsinks on the I/O ports. Will it fit using the original liquid CPU cooler or am I going to have a problem? I'm using the optical SPDIF port with an external DAC and the MSI Z490I seems to be the last MB in the market with SPDIF.

Hi All, sounds like a few folks want to do exactly what I want to do: upgrade original 2017 Corsair One to support Win11. I don't really need higher performance, and I'm concerned about (1) heat with the latest 125W "K" processors and (2) maximum power draw from the 500W PSU, so after some research I'm planning to go with an older 10th gen MSI Z490I UNIFY motherboard and Intel Core i5-10500 (65W). It should equal if not outperform the i7-7700K, and retain the S/PDIF port that I use with a DAC (that port seems to have been dropped from newer MSI motherboards). In this post in the legacy Corsair forums there's a few pics of the 2017 Corsair One with new motherboards and even new GPU, so I expect it should be do-able, just very fiddly with the cabling: @EchoSierra I'm especially interested in your thoughts on this. From your comments above it sounds like this should be a pretty straightforward upgrade, but I've read there can be issues getting variable fan speed to work properly with the top-mounted chassis fan for minimum noise when using a generic MSI motherboard vs the Corsair specific MSI motherboard.