Removing Intel i5-10400 Power Limits on H470 vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (ft. ASUS APE)

Intel's i5-10400 2666MHz memory limitations are in fact present on B460 & H470 motherboards, but so is ASUS APE, which is supposed to help performance. This benchmarks that.


The biggest takeaway here is that, yes, the i5-10400 is limited to 2666MHz. It's not able to do 2933MHz on these two boards, and even if it could, it still wouldn't be good. The ASRock boards can do BFB, or Base Frequency Boost, but our understanding is that this works the same way as ASUS' APE (ASUS Performance Enhancement). In this video, we're re-benchmarking the i5-10400 one final time on the B460 and H470 motherboards to finally look at if its memory is limited off of Z490, as it has been for about a decade now, just to make sure.

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00:00 - ASUS APE & ASRock BFB
06:56 - Intel XTU Power Limit Examples
07:40 - Power Consumption Without Power Limits
08:33 - i5-10400 Frequency with Unlocked Limits
10:00 - Game Tests
11:29 - Hitman 2 i5-10400 "OC" Benchmarks Power Limits Removed
12:19 - F1 2019 i5-10400 "OC" Benchmarks with ASUS APE
12:59 - GTA V i5-10400 vs. R3 3300X Benchmarks & RAM Tune
13:33 - Tomb Raider i5-10400 No Limit Benchmarks
13:54 - Three Kingdoms Campaign i5-10400 vs. Ryzen Tune Benchmarks
14:48 - Blender Cycles CPU Render i5-10400 vs. Ryzen Benchmark
15:41 - Chromium Code Compile CPU Benchmarks
16:09 - Conclusion of ASUS Performance Enhancement

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Test Lead, Additional Reporting: Steve Burke
Testing, Editorial: Patrick Lathan
Video: Keegan Gallick

[WTP_DAVE]

Brute force "overclocking" on non overclocking parts called APE. I like the name lol

[RamtheCowy]

Unrelated to the video, but I really am enjoying how the segmented timeline compliments the very structured content of GN. Very nice, very approachable.

[chadmckean]

Mousemat Question, i have a usb thing hot glued to my desk that is where the mousemat would go, will got glue stick to the mousemat and if so will hot glue damage it?

[chainsaw]

o no! intel is now boosting like AMD... i5-10400 does not run at advertised speeds when under a singlecore workload. We cant accept this from intel either

[TechGamer-pqgu]

Intel's ability to sabotage it self is amazing locking memory frequency on a lower motherboard makes high speed ram useless when you cant reach the maximum rated speed while AMD does not have such bullshit.

[aserai]

Love the plant in the background. I feel it enhances your performance.

[jumongmoves]

okay, what I'm more impressed by is knowing the 3700x at stock only consumes 85 watts on blender. damn impressive

[MaikelAt]

I always wonder: did you put the sticker on the monitor so people don't ask you what monitor it is?

[Buy_My_Mixtape]

1:18 - This seems like a good sponsor, you should see if they'll sponsor another video.

[trash]

Thanks for the vids, I really appreciate the effort you guys put in.

[MafiaboysWorld]

Since we got the ASUS APE, we need to have the Gigabyte Gorilla & the MSI Monkey next. 😁👍

[MrInsanityflea]

Back in the day we would switch jumpers on the motherboard to get the base frequency to run at 100mhz instead of 66mhz or 75mhz on the Pentiums. That's how we would overclock.

[lansiman]

intel behavior on B and H motherboards is the reason why AMD can charge the price for B550, they know you have no option from intel

[NizarElZarif]

The intel 10400/10400f could have been an amazing budget gaming CPU if they raised the all core turbo to 4.3 and allowed 3200 memory

[diegoalonsoperezleiva]

Hi i have an intel i5 10400 and now im using the Performance Mode, but my question is if this mode could damage my cpu with the time? i got a nice Cooler and my temperatures dont get high of 38ºC and also i wanna know if this mode really help or i set Auto mode???

[SonGoku-]

lol "performance enhancing" mobo. ASUS been juicin?

[pisek]

Steve we need more dmtb videos on the GNsteve channel! Thanks for the hard work & content

[evocatiproductions]

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-Sincerely, a fellow Tech Enthusiast

[aresdc]

I've got my hands on a cheap 10400F + Z490 Tomahawk kit. I'm running 32GB DDR4 4100Mhz C17 without problems on it, when I could not do this on my old Ryzen 2700X+ASUS Crosshair X470.
In ALL games is better than 2700X as well. I can see this as a win.
I only got a z490 motherboard, as I plan to drop a 10700K on it later.
I am fully going against Steve here, as I totally don't agree with him. 10400F and 10700K are amazing cpus, and very well priced.

[shaneeslick]

G'day Steve,
So Product Marketing up to it's tricks again with claiming 'APE is Magic Performance' yet it isn't 🙄