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Word is that a GTX 465 is nothing more than a GTX 470 with a bios flash that disables some of the stream processors. If that sounds kind of confusing then it probably is because it seems someone over at Galaxy got a little confused.

Someone over on the [H] forums picked up there new GTX 470 OC GC version to discover it was a GTX 465. Instead of being a wolf in sheeps clothing it seems this person got more a sheep in wolfs clothing.

It does tell us the information we need to know about the GTX 465.

264 Unified Stream Processors, 608MHz Core Clock, 1215MHz Shader Clock and a 3208MHz QDR clock on the 1GB of GDDR5 memory. You can also see that the card supports CUDA which was rumoured to not be in the model at one stage.

It seems alarm bells started going off in the users head when he couldn’t install the normal Forceware drivers.

No doubt the user will get his GTX 470 that he intended but it’s all very interesting none the less.

You can check out the [H] thread here.

This afternoon out of nowhere I had a couple of renders show up in my inbox of the Galaxy GTX 400 boxes. Seems that someone didn’t want to be left out after seeing the Gigabyte ones posted earlier.

This time we’ve got both the GTX 470 and GTX 480 and both have come from a good source so it’s probably very safe to assume that they’re spot on. In typical fashion the Galaxy boxes aren’t all that exciting but give you the details that you need to know.

At the end of it all we want what’s in the box more so then anything but we can see that the GTX 480 carries with it 1536MB of GDDR5 memory while the lower end GTX 470 carries 1280MB of GDDR5 memory. The unusual numbers are of course due to the memory bus width.

Anyway have a look below to have closer look at what exactly we’re dealing with.

Recently we made mention about Galaxy working on a Dual GPU GTS 250 Video Card, while we made a slight jest at it due to the fact we figured Galaxy was probably only working on it because they where board it seems the model is very real.

While the card may look like a Dual PCB model now if you look carefully the second PCB is nothing more than a card which holds the three fans that the card uses. It also gives us a fair idea that the card going to take up at least three motherboard slots. When installed you can see the three fans run a blue LED setup and looks fairly nice. See images at the bottom of the page.

As for performance we can see that under 3DMark Vantage it manages to perform a little better than the older single GPU GTX 280. We can see that the card is overclocked to 675MHz on the core and the Shader Clock has been bumped to 1696MHz which helps improve performance overall. Having a look at the Xtreme Tuner HD software which is Galaxys own overclocking program we can see that the GU temp is only 45c, no doubt this is just idle though.

Since the GTS 250 is the highest end GPU that NVIDIA partners are currently working with it comes as no surprise that someone is trying to mix it up a bit in an effort to dump some cores.

We still have no information on any release date or retail pricing but as always we’ll keep you up to date if anything changes.

We’re not sure how popular a dual GPU GTS 250 would be but it’s always nice to see companies thinking outside the box.

You have to think what many of the NVIDIA only partners are doing at the moment, speaking to a few as of late it seems that the highest end product being sold is the GTS 250 with most other models like the popular GTX 275, GTX 285 and dual GPU GTX 295 all becoming discontinued.

With all that free time on hand though it seems like some companies are choosing to experiment and have a bit of fun. The latest wacky incarnation of a NVIDIA graphics card seems to be coming from Galaxy and will carry with it two GTS 250 cores.

Information we know of at the moment is, two G92-426 cores will be placed on a single PCB with the help of the BR04 bridge chip. The particular 426 version of the G92 core are low power versions meaning that this card should use less power than that of two non 426 based GTS 250 cards.

2GB of memory is present thanks to 16 .8NS DRAM chips with both running on a 256-bit memory interface. This particular model will have 6-Phase power and Bussmann high-frequency inductance which will boost the frequency up to 2MHz. What that bit means exactly we’re not sure but the general word is that due to the low power nature of the GPUs and the high quality power supply components overclocking should be impressive.

As for clocks or a release date information is extremely limited at the moment, it’s possible that boredom could’ve just set in at Galaxy while waiting for Fermi and the company is just killing some time. If we get any more information though we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop.