Anybody bought a PoV GTX465 recently?

[oweneades]

i thought if he orded on tuesday then he should have got the this week only price ?

Actually you are quite right.

Perhaps query this with OCUK. The price did go up due to the card coming off of 'This Week Only', however, he should have got it for the lower price if ordered on Tuesday.

EDIT: I ran my usual benchmarks last night with the card at 700/1400/3368. Framerates jumped by roughly 10% in both JC2 and Mafia II. PLaying the demo of Mafia II (I really need to install the full game) saw framerates never drop below 80 and spend most of the time above 100. Looking at my numbers its also around 20fps faster than my GTX460 1GB (overclocked to 800/1600/4000) running at the same settings.

 

[Jeps]

I can also report that my card is running at 700/1400 at stock voltage without issue. Havent tried upping the memory yet but i'm seeing a nice performance increase. Not sure if i'll keep this high though as my temps are peaking at 93 degrees with the stock fan profile. Could up the fan but its already too loud for my tastes lol.

I just hope somebody gets some stock of the gelid icy vision soon!

 

[littlepuppy]

I did get the price... But they were on this week only 169.99 > 164.49

They are now 176 odd...

 

[NeoVo]

Was given a PoV 465, just configured it to work as a 470, havnt checked it for stability yet, but all seems well. *touches wood*

Edit: I ran a quick dirt 2 benchmark before and after - Ultra Settings @ 1920 x1080

465 - 59.4 Avg -- 45 Min
470 - 66.2 Avg -- 51.7 Min

11.4% ~ improvement

 

[An Exception]

hmm thats quite high? my 470 idles 40-44 and thats in a crappy case with a single 80mm fan at the front for now, are the heatskinks the same as the 470?

Some 470 chips have little leakage, hence they don't have a problem with temps.

 

[oweneades]

Some 470 chips have little leakage, hence they don't have a problem with temps.

Irregardless mid 60's at idle is far too high. Mine only hit 77 degrees at 99% load in Metro 2033 (fan at 79%). Idle temps are around 42-45.

 

[darkwildchild79]

maybe asking a stupid question does anyone know is ock pov all have the same memory or it is all a guess?? because it would be a shame to spend that money and find out that i had the 8 mem version???

maybe someone from ock can answer this question???

 

[darkwildchild79]

Buy one and if it's not a 470 then send it back under DSR.

dsr???

 

[Farore]

dsr???

Distance Selling Regulations.

 

[darkwildchild79]

Distance Selling Regulations.

thx, i just found that out doing a google search, damn i need to stop getting on this forum as soon as i wake up.

 

[Farore]

thx, i just found that out doing a google search, damn i need to stop getting on this forum as soon as i wake up.

That makes two of us.

 

[rolypolyman]

maybe asking a stupid question does anyone know is ock pov all have the same memory or it is all a guess?? because it would be a shame to spend that money and find out that i had the 8 mem version???

maybe someone from ock can answer this question???

Found ocuk to be the least helpful when asking for this kind of info.

 

[Greebo]

Found ocuk to be the least helpful when asking for this kind of info.

What do you expect them to do? Open the packages and remove the cooler to check as AFIK that's the only way to be sure.

 

[U4iK]

Another success:

Just to let others know I had a little issue getting the drivers to install and show the card as the 470. Eventually got it to work after erasing the eeprom first on the card then flashing it.

 

[Greebo]

Mines coming Monday and I will let you know. Looks like ocuk only has 6 left and they are selling fast

 

[U4iK]

Yeah no wonder when they all seem to be unlocking

 

[oweneades]

Another success:

Just to let others know I had a little issue getting the drivers to install and show the card as the 470. Eventually got it to work after erasing the eeprom first on the card then flashing it.

Assuming you just tried to flash it as first with a 470 bios this would have been the cause of your driver issues.

The eraseeeeprom command must be used when flashing to remove any trace of the 465 in the bios. It has something to do with the id (bios) of the card effectively being held in the GPU's memory and thus it will conflict if left in tact.

 

[littlepuppy]

Both of mine were unlockable...... had to give smidgen more volts to get stable folding but all good, going to flog my GTX460 and get one more of these babies for my LAN rig as they all seem capable..

175 for a 470 is crazy...

 

[littlepuppy]

Try either clocking the memory back down to GTX465 clocks or upping the core voltage one notch. I have read that this solves a few problems for other people.

Also reading the overclock.net thread there are a couple people suggesting using a different GTX470 bios (as the one on the POV card is different than the original card used to create the unlock pack).

As for my card, its perfectly stable running Mafia II and Just Cause 2 (benchmarking and games). Just Cause is randomly dropping back to the desktop (but still running), it did this with my GTX460 so I think its a driver issue rather than a card issue.

EDIT: My card also idles in the mid 40's with a custom fan profile (using MSI afterburner). This is in a Fractal Design Define R2 with manually controlled case fans @ ~ medium.

I had to slightly tweak volts (.96 > .98) and all good now.

 

[oweneades]

I had to slightly tweak volts (.96 > .98) and all good now.

Excellent, another successful unlock.