Commissioning and troubleshooting
Of course, the first time I tried to start the system, it was ready to go and everything looked good. Except for the unrecognized SSD, but I had it installed for sure and it sat perfectly in the slot. Our pro screwers may have noticed when I teased the error above. On B560 ports the first M.2 slot with PCIE 4.0 is connected to the CPU. The 10th Gen. Intel CPUs, to which the i5 10400 used here belongs, do not yet support PCIE 4.0! Therefore, the first slot is disabled on B560 boards when a 10th Gen. CPU is installed. MSI uses switches at this point on some boards, so that the slot can be switched to PCIE 3.0, but Gigabyte unfortunately does not use switches on the board used here. Well, the SSD just had to be installed in the lower slot, everything ran as planned.
Quickly the XMP profile was loaded, the fan curves configured and Windows installed. Everything worked, the temperatures looked good and the volume is also very tolerable. After some stability tests had been successfully completed overnight, the next day was spent testing.
Temperatures and power consumption
The temperatures really stay within limits despite the pleasantly quiet fans. This is probably also because the system is very frugal even under full load. In games I got 250 watts displayed on the meter for a short time.
CPU full load (30 minutes Cinebench R23) ~ 60°C
CPU Gaming (various benchmarks) ~ 50°C
GPU Gaming (Red Dead Redemption 2 St. Denis run) ~ 65°C
Total gaming consumption (Red Dead Redemption 2 St. Denis run) < 250 watts
Synthetic benchmarks
Of course, in the context of this article, it’s the gaming benchmarks that are of more interest, so I’m going to eat the few synthetic benchmarks I’ve made first. While the Core i5 10400 is just about on par with a 1st Gen Ryzen 5 from 2017 in some multi-core benchmarks, it clearly outperforms it in terms of gaming performance.
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