The GeForce GTX 465 graphics board from NVIDIA launched a good week or two ago. An reasonably interesting graphics cards as despite it is based on the initial 40nm Fermi GF100 architecture, NVIDIA managed to put an product out on the market, that does not run very hot and is not at all noisy. An Fermi product that should be more affordable yet has less active shader processors at it's disposal and their memory configuration is now brought down towards 1GB only. This all means that several other shader clusters inside that GPU have been disabled, on a card that looks like the Siamese twin of the GeForce GTX 470. Now EVGA will be putting a lot versions on the market based in several gradations. - Guru3D

EVGA GeForce GTX 465 SuperClocked Style Preview

These SuperClocked editions are typically pre-overclocked offerings from EVGA with a nice and hefty overclock, all done from default for you. This time around we find ourselves a little puzzled as to why EVGA put the SuperClocked edition logo on this product as really, the pre-overclock is so small that you will hardly even notice a performance difference over the baseline product. Its kind of weird to see that, as the SuperClocked model can really reach extreme clock frequencies as we have seen in our manual overclocking session. So despite being castrated a little, this little Fermi based graphics card has quite decent performance.

Much like the initial view of the GeForce GTX 465, we like what this product has to offer. These products is capable of playing the latest games in DirectX 11 very decently at good resolutions and a nice selection of image quality preferences. Of course the one thing haunting the entire Fermi based product line is ATI. ATI has NVIDIA pinned down in a crossfire of two products, the Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 5850. See the GeForce GTX 465 at baseline clock frequencies really is competing with these Radeon HD 5830, a product that you can pick up these days for $239. The GeForce GTX 465 is priced a good chunk higher at $279.

When looking at EVGA's offering in specific then, the package is fine, the bundle is okay with the included HDMI cable and obviously their lifetime warranty and step-up program is something that is hard to beat. The product itself is enjoyable but as regular as any other GeForce GTX 465 on the market. That SuperClocked label is though an little over the top. Our manual overclock was really impressive though. We got the core frequency boosted from 607MHz towards 815MHz, and in relation to it, that is an extra 400MHz on the shader domain as well. Though the memory remains a little icky to play around with while tweaking.

The GeForce GTX 465 is a nice enough card to play your games with. Again the overclocking potential is really good, we mean we didn't even voltage tweak this card. Then some of you even flashed a GeForce GTX 470 BIOS on these cards which in some cases seems to work fine. Heat levels are fine, noise levels are fine and setup in SLI the scaling is really good. When you combine all features, options and tweakability versus performance, the GeForce GTX 465 video card is a respectable product which will please many buyers.