GTX 465 with Westmere-EP Xeons

[bkzed]

I recently build my Dual Processosr workstation with following config -

2 x Intel Xeon 5650 2.67Ghz - 6 cores 12 Threads
Intel S5520SCR Workstation Board
Kingston 8 GB 1333 ECC Ram
Seagate Enterprise HDD 1TB
Nvidia GTX 465 1GB
CM HAF 932
FSP 850watt
Windows 7 64bit

Softwares - 3DS Max 2010 64bit SP1, Vray 1.50 SP3a 64bit.

I am using it with 3dsmax 2010 and Vray rendering engine. The processing speed with 24 cores on Vray is excellent.

But there is a very major problem I am facing with my graphics card.

GTX 465 is behaving very poorly in 3dsmax, the cheaper cards form ATI like 5670 is working way faster, 465 is way slower I cant even work in viewport with lite scenes. I am hoping to deal with very heavy scenes with this card, can anyone help in this matter?

I have tried instaling latest drivers but dosnt help.

 

[StormSide]

Found this:

"Although there doesn't seem to be a lot of replies to this topic - I did some more tests yesterday and it seems that it is the backface culling that is causing the largest hit on the 400 series of cards. Much more than on my old 8 series card. Once I disabled this feature in 3DSMAX, things are running smoothly again. My frames per second also jumped from 5 in the wireframe benchmarks to 180. A bit of a jump.
"

 

[StormSide]

Here is a thread, looks like you are SOL:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=173517

 

[nenforcer]

Normally the drivers make a significant improvement in the months after a cards launches but it doesn't appear that has happened with the GeForce Fermi series.

I would sell that GTX 465 and get a Quadro card. If you can afford that XEON workstation along with AutoCAD and VRay, surely you can afford a Quadro card.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

That thread says someone with a 5670 gets wayyyy higher performance than a 460 single. That's sad. They need to update their driver library asap.

 

[bkzed]

Found this:

"Although there doesn't seem to be a lot of replies to this topic - I did some more tests yesterday and it seems that it is the backface culling that is causing the largest hit on the 400 series of cards. Much more than on my old 8 series card. Once I disabled this feature in 3DSMAX, things are running smoothly again. My frames per second also jumped from 5 in the wireframe benchmarks to 180. A bit of a jump.
"

how do you disable backface culling option in 3dmax? I guess its a per object property... is ther any global setting?

 

[Jdawg84]

WAIT.. You built a dual server system WITHOUT an EVGA SR-2? WTF!!!!!!!!

 

[bkzed]

WAIT.. You built a dual server system WITHOUT an EVGA SR-2? WTF!!!!!!!!

you need the board that supports dual socket for Xeon, dosnt matter EVGA or Intel...