Sparkle GTX 465 (SXX4651024D5-NM)
Jul 13th, 2010 | By JaredInstallation is as easy as any other card, though with the PCIe power connectors on the side of the card can ease a tight fit in some mid tower cases.
The first order of business was to see just how far we could push the GTX 465 from its stock settings of 608 MHz core (1215 MHz shader) and 802 MHz memory clocks. I grabbed MSI’s Afterburner to see just what we could get out of this card. This was a quick and dirty session as with a little more tweaking I feel it might go a bit higher but as it stands I got it to 815 MHz core (1630 MHz shader) and 905 MHz memory after raising the voltage to 1.00v.
At 100% the fan is obnoxiously loud and trust me you would never want to run at this setting. To measure temperatures I left the fan to the stock auto settings and used the Furmark stability test to achieve load temperatures. The interesting thing here was that temperatures didn’t increase any with the card overclocked, though those temperatures are really somewhat nerve racking to see them climb that high. Under load the fan never went above 65% which is audible but really not too bad though everyone’s threshold on noise is different. Increasing the fan speed to 85% dropped the load temperatures to 74 C so there is some room for tinkering if you like.
Now that we have seen how far we can push Sparkle’s GTX 465, we are going to throw it through some benchmarks. Below are the system specifications that will be used for testing.
CPU: Intel E8400 @ 4GHz w/ Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
MB: Biostar TPower I45
RAM: G.Skill PI Black PC6400
PSU: Ultra X3 1000W
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB – SATA
DVD-Rom: Lite-On 18x DVD Burner – SATA
Case: Cooler Master HAF932
OS: Microsoft Windows 7
Ambient Temperature: 22-24C
GPUs:
Sparkle Geforce GTX465 1280MB (Catalyst 10.2)
HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo(Catalyst 10.5)
HIS HD 5830 iCooler V Turbo(Catalyst 10.5)
All benchmarks were run a minimum of three times with scores being the average of those three runs.