Anybody bought a PoV GTX465 recently?

[Jeps]

Yeah, I am going to need it lol. I have everything downloaded (including backups) and ready to go.

I was tempted by SLI myself as well but my monitor is only running 1680x1050 and tbh it would be overkill.

Quick question Jeps, did you use the bios file that came with the unlock pack (on the overclockers.net link)? It your card stable with it? (I have read a couple people having to tweak the voltages a bit to get it stable and others have found a different 470 bios is better.

Yes i used the bios from that unlock pack. Worked fine for me and i havent had any issue with stability at stock clocks/voltages. Obviously thats no garuntee that you wont run into issues though.

Most time consuming part for me was trying to find a guide that told me how to make the USB stick bootable. I had to use a HP tool to do it but i cant remember where I found the guide.

 

[ToxicTBag]

Just ordered p.o.v. 465's will let you guys know how it goes tommorrow

 

[oweneades]

Yes i used the bios from that unlock pack. Worked fine for me and i havent had any issue with stability at stock clocks/voltages. Obviously thats no garuntee that you wont run into issues though.

Most time consuming part for me was trying to find a guide that told me how to make the USB stick bootable. I had to use a HP tool to do it but i cant remember where I found the guide.

I found a very useful guide (unfortunately on my other pc). The way I done it was using diskpart in command prompt.

I needed a bootable USB stick anyway for other reasons so this was very helpful.

 

[Magnum_Force]

So no box of GTX 465 goodness waiting for me when I got home.

Dang, got a DPD "Sorry we missed you" card at home

DPD will try again tomorrow automatically, right?? :S

 

[Ultim8]

got 2 myself today and im just about to flash them but the nvidia drivers appear to be coming down really slow.....5 hours can anyone confirm if this is also happening?

 

[Ultim8]

ah modem reboot

 

[Ultim8]

Before:

After:

1 down 1 too go

 

[Bradmax57]

Could you use any 470 bios providing the card is right?

 

[Ultim8]

can confirm both cards are now GTX 470's with 1280MB and will be posting some benchies soon

 

[Ultim8]

i suppose but least with this one its been tested you could always adjust it with Nibitor if you wanted to tweak anything.

 

[ToxicTBag]

Sweet, nice one Ultim8 good luck with the other, cant wait to get mine tommorrow

 

[oweneades]

Very nice!

I am having to recreate my bootable USB stick pen.

Following a guide to creating a Vista Boot drive is fine but all it does is boot into the Vista setup splash screen (no DOS), not particularly helpful when trying to boot into DOS.

Retrying now but its taking forever to format my 8GB stick pen.

Interestingly I ran a couple of benchmarks (Mafia II and Just Cause 2) with the GTX465 stock and mildly overclocked. With the latest drivers it is not far from a GTX460 at stock (1-2fps), even more interestingly with a mild overclock of 675/1350/3206 it is again only 1-2fps behind a GTX460 1GB clocked at 800/1600/4000.

I can only assume at the same clocks as the 460 it would be faster thanks to a greater shader count.

 

[subbytna]

...but when you unlock it to a 470 you'll notice the difference

 

[Ultim8]

im all up and running in sli but got a slight lack of knowledge on sli and multi monitors, i have 3 monitors all identical 1920*1080 and i want to run extended desktop in sli.....how do i do it :s

 

[oweneades]

im all up and running in sli but got a slight lack of knowledge on sli and multi monitors, i have 3 monitors all identical 1920*1080 and i want to run extended desktop in sli.....how do i do it :s

Google Nvidia Surround setup guide. That should help you

Quick update, card has been flashed (heart in the mouth moment when I doubted whether I had put the correct files on the USB stick pen after erasing the current BIOS ), posted into Windows. Just installing the display drivers as I type this.

...but when you unlock it to a 470 you'll notice the difference

Indeed, just installing the drivers now. I can't wait to have a play.

I am genuinely impressed by the GTX465 stock performance as the reviews were pretty harsh. I assume this was mainly due to its ridiculous original asking price of ~£250.

 

[Ultim8]

im crashing in furmark and vantage at moment within seconds of starting so not all good yet

I had a 5870 six edition before this and uninstalled using control panel>uninstall......anyone got any ideas?

 

[kmufc77]

bit drastic but if you cant find the fault new OS install?

 

[Ultim8]

yeah bout time for a reinstall anyways but will try a few fixes first

 

[oweneades]

Oh yes:

Slighty happy now

 

[Ultim8]

congratz mate any chance you can try doing a few benchies, mines hanging while becnhing vantage, furmark or trying to play MW2, i used driver sweeper and cleared all the remains of ATI but no joy