A look Inside

Removing the lid and accessing the insides of the Voyager a1600 is simple and easy, something many other enthusiast-focused devices such as this fail at. Upgrading the storage, for example, used to be something that most laptops made easy, with removable doors or similar, and since the Voyager a1600 advertises two PCI-E 4.0 M.2 ports, you really should be able to make use of them. This is thankfully addressed by Corsair's engineers, although ram upgrades aren't going to be needed with the models featuring 32 GB, I think, but wanting to clean the fans or access the second M.2 slot should be regular fare for the target market of the Voyager a1600, a group I'm pleased to find myself within. The model that Corsair sent me features a truly large 2 TB main drive, but an upgrade of another 2 TB drive is something that is on the short list of additional features I'd ask for with the Voyager a1600.


We find a 99 Wh battery installed on the bottom edge of the internals, while the 32 GB of provided DDR5 system memory that is installed into my model of Voyager a1600 is to the middle and slightly to the left, hidden under a couple of plastic covers. I was pleased to see Corsair Vengeance models installed here, although these modules feature fairly standard DDR5-4800 speed and 40-40-40-77 timings.


The M.2 ports are located on either side of the Voyager a1600's internals, with the left port populated by a Samsung OEM 2 TB drive and the right port left open for upgrades.


The upper edge contains the huge cooling solution; we don't find a mess of heatpipes here; rather there is one large vapor chamber, yet another design innovation by Corsair's engineers that helps that Voyager a1600 stand out from others. Under the large vapor chamber is the AMD chips powering the Voyager a1600, while the fans located on either side both spill out hot air via a set of fins near their exhaust.


Corsair's engineering innovations don't end there; the back of the metal lid also serves as a heatsink for the installed M.2 devices, thanks to a couple of thermal pads that sit attached to the backplate and ready for use. This helps ensure that you can upgrade the drives on the Voyager a1600 to any of Corsair's PCI-E 4.0 M.2 SSDs without worrying about thermal throttling. Some laptops just use a simple metal cover that barely covers the M.2 drive, while with the Voyager a1600 you have the entire bottom surface of the laptop to act as a heatsink to your M.2 devices.