Corsair Platform:6 Elevate review – The Ultimate Desk for Streaming

Corsair's Platform:6 Elevate gaming table is robustly constructed and comes with almighty features, including an integrated obstruction strategy perfect for streamers and different contented creators that request plentifulness of kit. Add connected electrical sit/stand motors, aggregate cablegram retention areas and a streamlined assembly process, and the Platform:6 tin beryllium unthinkable for the close person. However, its top-tier pricing ($1399) and an all-or-nothing attack to modularity marque it much of a specializer instrumentality than an instant upgrade for the everyman.

I've been utilizing the Platform:6 Elevate arsenic my main enactment and gaming table for the past 2 years, and I've recovered it astatine times maddening and astatine times marvellous. It offers possibly the astir imaginable successful presumption of mounting aggregate accessories, with a immense magnitude of flexibility successful presumption of wherever and however items similar monitors, cameras, lights and microphones are mounted, though it doesn't see an underslung PC equine similar the Secretlab Magnus Evo I reviewed past month. Still, there's plentifulness present to appreciate, alongside a fewer plan decisions that I've yet travel to disagree with – adjacent though I person nary plans to commercialized the Platform:6 for different gaming table successful the adjacent future.

Corsair Platform:6 Elevate – Design and Features

There are 3 variants of the Platform:6: the $999 basal model, which is simply a fixed height; the $1399 Elevate exemplary I tested, which adds electrical sit/stand functionality; and the $1899 Creator Edition, which adds connected a convenient and eye-catching peg committee that floats supra your monitors. Every variant is good built, with ample t–shaped alloy legs that supply a bully grade of stableness adjacent erstwhile knocked, and a prime of 1in-thick achromatic laminate (included) oregon 1.25in-thick acheronian walnut stain rubberwood ($100 extra) surfaces connected the Elevate and Creator Edition models.

Like nationalist transport successful the UK, the cardinal to each Platform:6 variant is its obstruction network. You get 1 ample apical crossbar that runs supra and on the backmost of the desk, positive an other smaller obstruction built into the near and close sides. The apical obstruction works with the included dual show mount, which tin grip screens up to 8kg each. That's capable for the mean 32-inch oregon smaller surface – my 32-inch Alienware QD–OLED gaming show weighs 6kg, for discourse – but I thin to similar abstracted show mounts for ultra-wide monitors oregon putting 2 32-inch 16:9 displays adjacent to each other, arsenic it allows for much separation than the azygous cardinal equine constituent of the included dual show equine tin provide.

It's besides imaginable to screw successful further items with the provided t-nuts and a prime of multi-mount oregon ball-mount adapters, which tin beryllium fixed successful presumption oregon near to descent backmost and distant on the extruded aluminium tracks. The near and close corners of the apical obstruction besides see their ain dedicated screw mounts, which are designed for the Creator Edition pegboard attachment (which tin beryllium purchased separately) but tin besides accommodate the antecedently mentioned adapters. Finally, the show limb besides has its ain cardinal post, which is an perfect placement for a camera. That means there's plentifulness of scope to adhd connected accessories from wrong Elgato's ecosystem, though astatine $50 a popular for an Elgato multi-mount, getting afloat acceptable up could beryllium expensive.

Here's however the table looks with the show arms attached. Please excuse the clutter, 2023 was a engaged year.

The 1 contented with this statement is that galore third-party friction-fit table mounts don't enactment with the rail, particularly for larger items similar monitors wherever the equine overhangs the comparatively constrictive crossbar. Unfortunately, it's hard oregon intolerable to equine straight to the table aboveground instead, arsenic that apical barroom blocks the backmost broadside of the desk, portion the rails connected the sides mean that the edges determination are often excessively heavy to accommodate a mount. That locks you successful to lone a tiny proportionality of the options disposable connected a modular desk, and I yet removed the apical barroom truthful that I could equine my preferred abstracted show arms, mic arms and webcam stands wherever I wanted to. (The apical barroom was besides starting to tilt forwards, which has been reported by different users online and requires a spot of faffing astir to solve, truthful I went with the simpler enactment of not dealing with it.)

Cable absorption is besides a focus, which is simply a alleviation fixed however overmuch scope determination is to adhd powered accessories similar lights, cameras, microphones and truthful on. The tiny cablegram tidy successful the centre of the table is simply a small awkward to access, with a removable woody screen that ended up straight underneath my third–party show mount, but it does supply a spot to plug successful USB-A and USB-C devices similar keyboards oregon mice. This makes it easier to support things looking comparatively tidy without having to edifice to afloat wireless peripherals, though its tiny size and presumption towards the backmost of the table made it hard for maine to marque speedy changes and yet I lone utilized it for my keyboard cable.

It's not that neat, but it's a batch neater than it was an hr earlier I tidied up for this photo.

The cablegram organiser beneath the table is simply a much generous size, and I recovered it easier to access. There's nary integrated powerfulness constituent here, arsenic determination is connected the Secretlab Magnus Evo, truthful you volition person to way astatine slightest 1 powerfulness cablegram down 1 of the legs connected your own, but determination is simply a bully magnitude of abstraction successful each directions to spot my (comically oversized) UK powerfulness strips and the accustomed postulation of USB, show and talker cables. Being a tech reviewer means that I person a lot of powered accessories plugged into my PC astatine immoderate 1 time, truthful having plentifulness of cablegram retention abstraction is precise important to me. The lone downside is that the precocious backmost of the organiser means that sometimes cables tin beryllium hard to propulsion successful from the apical without getting snagged, but that's a relatiely insignificant concern.

Corsair besides makes matching matte achromatic three-way oregon six-way powerfulness outlets, which each see 2 USB ports (weirdly, 1 USB–C and 1 USB-A connected the three-way option, and 2 USB-A connected the six-way). One wasn't included successful the parcels I received, truthful I bought my ain to trial out. It's perfectly serviceable, arsenic you'd expect, though I recovered that the friction-fit mounting tended to loosen implicit time, particularly arsenic I was pushing it distant from maine erstwhile plugging cables in. Again, third-party options whitethorn beryllium the astir cost-effective way guardant here, but the chunky matte achromatic aesthetic does lucifer the table nicely.

As good arsenic its much gaming-focused features, the Platform:6 is besides conscionable a monolithic desk. In fact, it's the largest gaming table I've ever tested (of 5 successful total), measuring a important 72 inches successful width and 30 inches successful depth, providing much than capable existent property for 2 desktop PCs and 2 monitors, positive speakers and different tiny peripherals.

The powerfulness constituent present tin lone beryllium clipped onto the backmost of the desk, but it works good capable and matches the aesthetic.

If 72 inches of width isn't capable for your expansive gaming lair, you tin besides bargain a brace of extensions for $200 that adhd an other 24 inches oregon so, easy providing country for 2 oregon adjacent 3 gaming setups connected what is technically a azygous portion of furniture. However, you can't instal these with a peg committee connected the aforesaid side; it's 1 oregon the other. On the different hand, if you privation a smaller footprint, Corsair besides sells the Platform:4, a shrunk-down, less-expensive mentation that measures 47 inches crossed but is different astir identical to the Platform:6.

Finally, the electrical motors built into the Elevate and Creator Edition models enactment well, with your prime of near oregon right–mounted controls that see a tallness readout, dedicated up/down buttons, a prevention fastener and 2 numbered presets. As usual, if the table detects absorption portion moving, it volition halt and rapidly reverse people to debar wounded oregon damage, and this worked reliably successful my testing. There's nary dedicated power to fastener retired the controls, and I did occasionally thin implicit successful specified a mode that I accidentally pressed 1 of the buttons – which is ever a spot shocking erstwhile it happens unexpectedly. However, successful penning this reappraisal I did observe that it's imaginable to fastener the controls by pressing and holding the prevention button, past pressing the down arrow, which does enactment arsenic advertised.

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Corsair Platform:6 Elevate – Assembly

I archetypal assembled the Platform:6 backmost successful October 2023, truthful I'll commencement this conception by saying that I don't person immoderate due professional–grade photos of the process. However, what I noted down astatine the clip – and you tin spot from my colleague’s assembly photos of the smaller Platform:4 – is that the process was amazingly straightforward, fixed its scope and the information that it took the champion portion of a time to accomplish.

The trickiest portion of the full escapade came close astatine the start, erstwhile I needed to instrumentality everything retired of the 3 ample boxes and lug them upstairs without leaving large holes successful the masonry. Most of the bits were rather transportable erstwhile taken successful tiny batches, but the wide tabletop and the dense electrical motors were much of a mission. Unlike the Magnus Evo, which reaches its afloat width by screwing 3 pieces together, the Platform:6 is simply a azygous piece, truthful enlisting the assistance of a friend/family member/enemy astatine slightest astatine the opening and extremity of assembly is sensible.

Corsair Platform:4 – Assembly Photos

Once I had everything retired of a container and successful position, it was the accustomed communicative of laying the tabletop upside down onto thing soft, slotting successful the limb motors, bolting everything into presumption and past flipping the table right-side up. Even if you're not a seasoned electrical table assembler, Corsair's idiosyncratic manuals are usually well-illustrated and logically arranged, with wide diagrams and accordant labelling wherever needed, and thankfully the Platform:6 doesn't subordinate the trend. If I needed bolts, nuts oregon caller tools for a step, I was definite to find everything successful a neatly labelled and abstracted bag. A decent magnitude of the packaging was besides recyclable oregon compostable, prevention for the obligatory ample pieces of foam surrounding the heavier components.

After the table itself is complete, adding the last touches is casual enough. This is mostly down to screwing successful a crossbar connected each backmost corner, sliding connected the dual show equine and sorting retired the cablegram concern successful the cubby. The cablegram organiser beneath the table is much important – and truthful much fiddly – than that of the Magnus Evo, but being capable to rise the table each the mode does marque it easier to get everything screwed in.

Corsair Platform:6 Elevate – Gaming

As a gaming platform, the Platform:6 has performed admirably, particularly erstwhile I've been streaming, appearing connected podcasts, oregon signaling videos and truthful payment from having casual mounting points for assorted physics accessories. The expansive span of the table provides plentifulness of keyboard and mousing space, adjacent aft plunking down monitors, speakers, computers, networking instrumentality and assorted knick–knacks, and the sit/stand motors person enticed maine to basal portion moving much than I different would.

The table is highly unchangeable too, and has gracefully handled adjacent dense dual-chamber PCs implicit the years. The cablegram absorption cubby remains under-utilised – and I don't overmuch similar however particulate accumulates successful its crevices and however small powerfulness it tin supply – but the larger cablegram absorption good beneath has proven conscionable astir capable for the parade of peripherals my enactment requires, adjacent if its analyzable signifier sometimes snags cables that I'm trying to tuck inside.

I'm overmuch happier with the obstruction strategy uninstalled - arsenic I tin enactment my mounts anywhere, and they tin beryllium immoderate thickness - alternatively than being constricted to what the obstruction tin accommodate.

The obstruction strategy that defines the table – and is presumably liable for its precocious terms – is simply a spot much of a mixed bag. I emotion the conception of a fit-all accessory system, but I don't deliberation that the metallic apical obstruction is an betterment implicit simply clamping mounts onto the backmost of the desk. Sure, it looks chill to person an elevated rail, and it allows for monitors to descent on its length, but a fiddly mounting strategy that tin twist implicit time, constricted third-party compatibility and a comparatively progressive instal process are important downsides. The Magnus Evo, with its metallic backmost borderline conception that's designed to beryllium a stronger alternate to a modular MDF panel, is for maine a much unfastened and palmy solution to the aforesaid problem. I fishy I'd consciousness otherwise if I were investigating the Creator Edition, which does thing much meaningful with the conception with its useful pegboard, but that is adjacent much costly than the already premium basal and Elevate models.