today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the third member of the GTX 400 series
family so up here on top for comparison we'll get more on this later is a GTX
480 but the one we're actually looking at today is the GTX 465 this is a PNY
accelerate XLR8 performance Edition card
it is okay they have a couple of extra things that are included with their
cards that aren't included with others you get two bonus movie downloads and
they have a few examples of what you can download uh Muppets space uh The Da
Vinci Code SWAT uh some movie I think it's about counting cards and Rudy so
you can get two bonus movie downloads and then you get a 3-month subscription
to uh Esa all right let's go around to
the back and we'll find the basic specs while I start to open the packaging so
it is SLI ready it has physics support it has 3D Vision support just like the
GTX 470 and the 480 the biggest
difference with the 465 is actually probably on the front
uh yes here only 1 gig of ddr5 RAM so
that means that compared to its bigger Brothers you're going to have a little
bit less RAM and you're also going to have a little bit less performance
because it does have fewer processing cores so we'll have a quick look at
what's included here we've got the quick start guide okay it's a pretty much a standard
quick start guide shows you how to install a video card then we have the
installation disc make sure you download the latest drivers off the NVIDIA
website they're latest beta is actually really good then you've got a dual Molex
to one PCIe 6X connector you have a mini
HDMI to HDMI adapter and then you have a
DVI to VGA adapter you so you can plug in pretty much every conceivable
connector here so the way it's packed is just in little Foams here and it's sort
of sturdy enough although it's not uh this was a a quick to Market card so you
don't expect full custom packaging for it and let's have a look so far it looks
just like a GTX uh 470 one big
difference that it uh that it doesn't have especially okay here why don't we
compare it to the 480 instead okay so the big first thing we notice compared
to the 480 is that it doesn't have the the heat sink surface on the actual
front of the card so it doesn't have these heat pipes that as you can see
come out of the top of the card leading to more ventilation space as well as
this heat sink surface here it does still use a fan blower design so you can
see the whole second slot is designed for air flow to be vented by this fan
out the front of the case and this fan is completely shrouded in so that it's
not going to exhaust any air back this way this takes all the warm air from
inside your case cools your card and then blows it out the back of the case
up on the top we find two six pin PCI Express power connectors as well as a 1
in shorter length compared to the six pin and eight pin on the 480 as well as
a 1in longer length the sticker is ALS
so rather shoddily applied on this one but I'm sure that's just a sample and
not representative of all of them the back of them both look the same okay and
then let's have a look so this is a standard PCIe 16x card you're going to
find your your standard 16x PCI Express
connector along the bottom that's uh fairly normal and one thing that you
will notice about the 465 um especially on these first cards
is that it actually has all of the memory chip spots 4 5 6 7 8 oh no maybe
hold on maybe it doesn't 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
you know what I can't tell how many that is it might have eight it might have 10
um it's probably using a GTX 470 PCB but
actually with two fer RAM chips soldered on because it was uh it was up to the
addin partners to design the boards for the 465 it uses a very similar design
where the fan has access both at the back and the front of the PCB to Fresh
Air you've got got two SLI connectors up on the top so if you're going to be
running SLI either two-way or three-way SLI or if you're going to be running 3D
Vision surround which you need to run SLI in order to use you're going to need
those moving around to the back of the card we've got two DVI ports and One
Mini HDMI although you can't run three
monitors off the card at the same time so that was pretty much all I wanted to
say about the PTX PTX PNY GTX X 465 1
gig graphics card