Unlike some sites that will do a bit of an overclock, give Vantage another run and then rate its overclock potential, we prefer to give you an idea of how overclocking affects many games and applications. While a longer, more tedious and more expensive process, what it ultimately does is offer the most information possible. We mentioned the other week that we're doing a lot of these lately. That's due to the release of so many new models and then with upgraded coolers on those models. We are sure it is going to die down a little as time goes on and NVIDIA releases lower end models which we won't overclock, but for now we've got the GeForce GTX 465 which is the perfect candidate for overclocking. - TweakTown

Galaxy GeForce GTX 465 GC OverClock Style Review

With the model being based very much off the GeForce GTX 470, we had hoped that we would have seen the voltage adjustment to the core straight off the bat. Unfortunately none of the official software from the different brands did offer. We are not too sure if we are going to see it soon, or if the ability isn't present in this model. Either way, if it is on offer soon and it does help give us a better overclock once again over what we currently get, we will look into this again. If it doesn't though, we'll no doubt make mention of it in some shape. What we ended up with was surprising, 725MHz on the core which bumped our shader to 1450MHz.

Again, we were really surprised to see the performance increase we got from the GeForce GTX 465. We were hoping to see the big performance increase we saw from these GeForce GTX 470, but wasn't sure if we would get it or not. The good news is that the +700MHz core clock did wonders for our overall performance. What it did ultimately though, was wonders for the value of the card with it taking top spot. Well, equal top spot with this Galaxy GeForce GTX 470 we looked at recently. It's important to know that we didn't have the voltage adjust ability, with that we could end up with another +30MHz on the core.

This GeForce GTX 465 is a great model. Its price is good, its overclock potential seems to be fantastic and as we mentioned before, it isn't plagued with the same heat, power and noise issues that the original GeForce GTX 400 series plagued us with. All these are just so important as well when you're getting into that more mainstream market. So NVIDIA might have gotten off to a bit of a rocky start with the GeForce GTX 400 series, but the GeForce GTX 465 graphics card and these latest ForceWare drivers are not only a step, but an leap in the right direction. It looks like the video card market is going to begin to start heating up again.