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Point of View GTX 465 review

In this review we will get acquainted with one of the representatives of GTX 465 graphic cards — Point of View GTX 465

Testbed system

Testbed configuration
MotherboardDFI LP UT X58-T3eH8
ProcessorCore i7 920@4400HT
MemoryG.SKILL Trident 6GB F3-16000CL9T-6GBTD
Graphic cardPoint of View GTX 465 (VGA-465-A1)
Hard drives2 x VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS RAID0 / Hitachi P7K500 500Gb
CaseOpen bench table Banchetto 101
OSWindows 7 64-bit
VGA’s driver versionGeForce/ION Driver Release 256, Version 258.96
MonitorDell Ultrasharp U2711

Testbed configuration

Processor and motherboard is cooled using liquid cooling system (LCS).

Voltages and temperature level

MSI Afterburner tool informed about default clocks and voltage of 0.937 V for a 3D mode:

GTX 465 voltage and clock info

Our laboratory includes EVGA GTX 470 SuperClocked video card with voltage of 1.012V in 3D mode. It would be wrong to compare voltages of different card models. Each card based on GPU GF100 has an individual voltage value. Voltage value is set by GPU microchip itself and BIOS shows value change range for possible voltages.

Let take a look at the voltage table using NiBiTor:

GTX 465 BIOS voltage table

Voltage value range for performance mode is set from 0.925V to 1.075V. We conclude, that according to particular card sample voltage value in 3D mode can reach 0.92V or even 1.075V. What voltage will you card have no one knows for sure. BIOS indicates voltage values for Desktop and Blu-Ray Playback modes to be 0.875V. and 0.8875V, respectively.

Lets check PoV GTX 465 temperatures in reference to operation modes (for 3D mode, a 30 minute run of Metro 2033 game was used) and make control measurements with multimeter:

Graphic card’s operation mode depending on the load
Core ClockMemory ClockGPU Voltage (monitoring)GPU Voltage (measurement)GPU temperatures at 25°СFan spped
Desktop50 MHz65 MHz0.8750.88 V46°С40% (1430RPM)
Blu-Ray Playback405 MHz162 MHz0.8870.89 V51°С40% (1430RPM)
3D Load607 MHz800 MHz0.9370.944 V89°С61% (2540RPM)

I have been examining Fermi cards for quite a long time now and for me personally the critical noise threshold is determined by 3200-3500  RPM of fan speed. AS we see, the maximum fan speed during gaming was 2540RPM — the noise level is comfortable.

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