MSI GeForce GTX 465 Twin Frozr 2 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 4 expert reviews

Excellent:

2
Good:

2
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Overclocks well, DX11, Price, Appearance, Noise is very minimal
Price, Performance, Temps, Afterburner Software is Awesome!, Quiet.
Extremely quiet, Good overclocking performance, Solid performance at lower resolutions, Native HDMI output, Leading overclocking utility bundled: MSI Afterburner, GDDR5 memory, Reasonable price increase over reference design, Support for DirectX 11, Suppo

Cons:

Price for the hardware you lose is hard to swallow
I Would Like to see a few Extras but not bad Either way

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Last revision on March 22, 2011

Reviewers Liked

Overclocks well, DX11, Price, Appearance, Noise is very minimal
Price, Performance, Temps, Afterburner Software is Awesome!, Quiet
Extremely quiet, Good overclocking performance, Solid performance at lower resolutions, Native HDMI output, Leading overclocking utility bundled: MSI Afterburner, GDDR5 memory, Reasonable price increase over reference design, Support for DirectX 11, Suppo

Reviewers Didn't Like

Price for the hardware you lose is hard to swallow
I Would Like to see a few Extras but not bad Either way
Higher power draw than similar ATI products, Future of GTX 465 SKU unknown, might be replaced soon, Falls behind other cards at higher resolution, Price seems a bit high, DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while

Expert reviews and ratings

Finally we can breathe a sigh of relief. It's taken a while but eventually a company has taken the potential of the latest series of nVidia cards and unlocked it. Giving us all the cards we expected to see at launch.When a product is this good,...

By Overclock3D on August 17, 2010

The end has been reached, and we have came to our verdict. The card performs very well for its price point, doing well all around in various games ranging from DX9 all the way up to the latest and greatest DX11. Its only outperformed by its older...

By Bjorn3D on July 30, 2010

When comparing MSI's GeForce GTX 465 Twin Frozr II to the NVIDIA reference design, there is absolutely nothing to complain about. MSI has instead improved on several things. First, and foremost, the fan noise is considerably reduced. Whereas the GTX...

By techPowerUp! on June 23, 2010

While performance is the most important when dealing with a Graphics Card review, this is the Frozr II and temperature is a very essential benchmark so the temperatures goes from hottest to coolest: Sparkle 480GTX: 75.2 degreesSparkle 465GTX: 63.7...

By OverclockersQH on July 22, 2010

Nvidia's answer to the popular ATI HD5850 (at least in the UK market) has been met by intense competition, which unfortunately didn't go their way. The GTX465 boast some impressive specifications and features and finally brings DX11 to...

By Vortez on July 01, 2010

which is extremely reasonable considering as to what you purchase we say. The end result is a much better looking card that you honestly can hardly hear, it comes with really first-class GPU temperatures. Thus the end result is a spectacular looking...

By Guru of 3D on June 30, 2010

Estamos ante una grafica de mucha calidad y de las mejores de su gama, aun que de precio normal dentro de la gama media ,me ha gustado mucho la disipacion y su capacidad de overclock. Tambien es una grafica para el dia de mañana como no, para casi...

By Sabios del PC on October 20, 2010

Dopo aver analizzato le caratteristiche architetturali delle schede GeForce GTX 460 basate su architettura GF104, contenute in questo articolo, soffermiamo la nostra attenzione sulle prime schede basate su queste GPU ad essere state messe a...

By Hardware Upgrade on July 19, 2010

Die Tatsache, dass die NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 auf NVIDIAs ersten DirectX-11-Grafikchip aufbaut und damit auch die hohe Leistungsaufnahme und Abwärme mit in die obere Mittelklasse bringt, lässt uns sagen, dass die Kalifornier möglichst...

By Hardwareluxx on July 01, 2010