Testbed and Methods Our express-test of the new GeForce GTX 465 was conducted using the following universal testbed:
- Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition processor (3.33 GHz, 6.4 GT/s QPI);
- Scythe SCKTN-3000 Katana 3 CPU cooler;
- Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme mainboard (Intel X58 Express chipset);
- Corsair XMS3-12800C9 (3 x 2 GB, 1333 MHz, 9-9-9-24, 2T);
- Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDD (1 TB, 32 MB buffer, SATA II);
- Ultra X4 850 W Modular power supply;
- Dell 3007WFP monitor (30", 2560x1600 @ 60 Hz max display resolution);
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit;
- Nvidia GeForce 197.75 WHQL for Nvidia GeForce;
- ATI Catalyst 10.4 for ATI Radeon HD.
The ATI Catalyst and Nvidia GeForce graphics card drivers were configured in the following way:
ATI Catalyst:
- Smoothvision HD: Anti-Aliasing: Use application settings/Box Filter
- Catalyst A.I.: Standard
- Mipmap Detail Level: High Quality
- Wait for vertical refresh: Always Off
- AAMode: Quality
- Other settings: default
Nvidia GeForce:
- Texture filtering – Quality: High quality
- Texture filtering – Trilinear optimization: Off
- Texture filtering – Anisotropic sample optimization: Off
- Vertical sync: Force off
- Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On
- Antialiasing - Transparency: Multisampling
- Set PhysX GPU acceleration: Enabled
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Other settings: default