iBUYPOWER Y40 Gaming PC Evaluate

Introduction and Pricing

iBUYPOWER, the dad or mum to the incredible chassis producer HYTE, has supplied prebuilt gaming machines for years. They not too long ago up to date their lineup to incorporate Thirteenth-generation Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 collection graphics. With that, we put collectively a moderately stable mid-range gaming machine for overview, much like the Alienware Aurora R16 we not too long ago reviewed, which ought to give us a dependable comparability for this overview.

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As per common, our construct is printed above, with iBUYPOWER giving it the Y40BG202 mannequin quantity for these excited by buying one for themselves. This machine begins with a Z690 motherboard, and from there, we’ve got an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPU, an Intel Core i7 13700KF processor, which supplies us eight efficiency cores and eight effectivity cores, together with the added capability of overclocking. This can be a DDR5 variant motherboard, so we’ve got help for DDR5 5600MHz reminiscence, our unit being deployed with 32GB of RAM.

Storage on this machine was a single 2TB NVMe resolution, with sufficient room on the motherboard so as to add one other two NVMe drives if wanted. SATA, too, is offered for these utilizing arduous drives or legacy SSDs.

The growth consists of three PCIe x16 slots and one PCIe x1, the highest slot being Gen5 occupied by our RTX 4070 Ti. Rear I/O connectivity consists of 4 USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 1, one Gen 2 utilizing the Kind-A connector, and one Gen2x2 utilizing Kind-C. Moreover, we’ve got an RJ45 connection for the Intel 2.5Gbe and two antenna connections for the WiFi6e, which Intel additionally gives.

The MSRP of the iBUYPOWER Y40 is available in at $2249 as configured.

The Y40, BIOS and Software program

The System and BIOS

The Y40 got here to us in retail packaging, as seen above, which included a picture of the machine.

Included with the Y40, we’ve got SATA cables, a Wi-Fi antenna, and {hardware} for the motherboard. We additionally observe studying supplies and drivers on disk.

Unboxing the Y40, we’re greeted by the Hyte chassis, related in design to the Y60 with a smaller footprint. This chassis consists of entrance panel USB and audio connections.

The rear I/O consists of all the things we talked about above, together with the chassis supporting seven half-height growth ports and vertical GPU help.

We’ve a really clear construct contained in the chassis with authentic off-the-shelf components. IBP even goes so far as giving this machine a stable energy provide with help for 12VHPWR connections. This machine is water cooled, as you’ll be able to see above. We additionally observe using TForce DDR5, considered one of my private favorites.

The bottom of the chassis is saved very clear with further PSU cables tied and tucked away whereas the cables wanted are secured to the chassis as properly.

RGB on this machine is offered by the customized IBP AIO, and the reminiscence provides off loads of mild for the system.

BIOS

The BIOS is the MSI Click on BIOS 5, an answer we’ve got seen on any boards. The primary menu provides fundamental choices, together with XMP profiles on the prime and a {hardware} info slice on the very proper.

Transferring into the superior menu, we’ve got just a few extra settings for the motherboard, permitting extra customization. These settings embody PCIe, peripherals, and Thunderbolt help. There may be additionally the choice to safe any SSD resolution and a Self-Take a look at in case you are having hassle with a drive.

Overclocking is absolutely open on this board with OC Discover Mode, which is able to discover the optimum clocks in your CPU. There may be additionally the choice to go absolutely handbook and tweak to your coronary heart’s need.

{Hardware} Monitor permits you to arrange per-port fan curves in your system.

Software program

With this technique having a retail MSI motherboard, you do get the benefit of utilizing MSI Middle. This permits for {hardware} monitoring together with obtainable add-on modules for controlling RGB.

Preset eventualities can be found, too. We examined beneath the intense efficiency situation.

Mystic Gentle will be discovered with a module; this permits management of the board’s RGB headers and reminiscence modules.

System Benchmarks

Cinebench R23

As at all times, we began with R23, which netted us a single-core rating of 2064 and a multi-core rating of 30449.

Crossmark

Crossmark wrapped up with an general rating of 2407.

AIDA64

AIDA64 gave us 85K learn, 78K write, and 78K copy. Latency was respectable at 77ns.

PCMark

PCMark scored 14074 general, and the gaming workload was practically 40K factors.

3DMark

CPU Profile landed at 1167 single thread whereas sixteen threads completed at 11626.

3DMark Time Spy gave us 22714 general, with the CPU selecting up 21285.

Working via Velocity Manner, we had a rating of 5476.

Storage efficiency was respectable, the Y40 scoring 2799 with a bandwidth of 493 MB/s.

Charts and Comparisons

Transferring into our charts, the Y40 sits in the midst of the pack in our R23 chart above, a contact higher than the Velocity Micro Raptor.

Crossmark sees the Y40 close to the highest. The system scored 2407, a contact above the Trident from MSI.

PCMark Prolonged lands the Y40 second to the Origin 5000D.

PCMark Workloads somewhat nearer, the Y40 was once more second to the Origin, its greatest workload being gaming.

CPU Profile lands the Y40 – third in our charts.

Time Spy has the Y40 slightly below the XPS 8960.

Velocity Manner has the Y40 on par with the Aurora R16.

Storage was respectable with the Y40, center of the pack in our charts.

Cyberpunk 2077 confirmed stable efficiency for the Y40. The RTX 4070 Ti delivered 214 FPS at 1080p excessive and 153 FPS at 1440p excessive.

Worth and Ultimate Ideas

Worth

With its barely greater price ticket, the Y40 did land a slot beneath the Aurora R16 at 98.2%.

Ultimate Ideas

iBUYPOWER has put collectively a moderately stable mid-range gamer with its Y40 lineup, and utilizing off-the-shelf elements is one approach to get the keys to town faster, and iBUYPOWER has accomplished that with ease.

Whereas admittedly older with its Z690 chipset, the MSI motherboard continues to be being supported and will even see help for Intel’s 14th-gen CPUs if upgrading is in your must-have record. DDR5 help is a should for me; the MSI board can take as much as 192GB, although admittedly, with this being a Z690 chipset, you probably will not see 8000MHz +, however 6000MHz-6200MHz is actually an attainable aim.

Efficiency was fairly good for a mid-range machine. The Y40 hit the center of our charts in CPU-intensive duties, whereas once we use system-wide workloads, we see it climb up the charts. Gaming was fairly good on the Y40. The 4070 Ti is a stable GPU with practically the proper steadiness of efficiency/worth, permitting this technique upwards of 214 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p and was even in a position to keep above 60 FPS at 4K, with our check exhibiting a stable 87 FPS.

Aesthetically, the Y40 is an enormous win for me. IBUYPOWER going in-house to make use of considered one of its personal HYTE chassis is a incredible transfer and attire up this whole lineup. Pricing is a tad excessive. At $2299, it’s about $400 greater than the Aurora R16 not too long ago reviewed however gives that aesthetic attraction and makes use of all high-quality elements proper right down to the thumbscrews.