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BFG Technolgies GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB DDR3 (BFGE98512GTXE)
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List Price: $355.59
Our Price: $322.96
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Manufacturer: BFG Technologies
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: BFG Technologies
EAN: 0876758002166
Feature: PCI Express
Graphics Memory Size: 512
Label: BFG Technologies
Manufacturer: BFG Technologies
Model: BFGE98512GTXE
Publisher: BFG Technologies
Studio: BFG Technologies
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PCI Express
512MB GDDR3
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Editorial Reviews:
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The BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB graphics card raises the performance bar by enabling full-throttle lifelike game play at intense resolutions while providing optimal power management with HybridPower technology. The PureVideo HD engine delivers unmatched video and movie quality with spectacular picture clarity featuring scene-optimized color and contrast enhancement. And when coupled with nForce SLI -ready motherboards, provides amplified performance up to 2x in a dual SLI configuration and up to 2.8x in 3-way SLI mode. Packing more performance at an exceptional value, the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB graphics card offers extreme HD gaming and a first-class entertainment experience.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sweet card at a great price!
Comment: I just happen to be upgrading from an old system. I think my last card was a agp bfg 6800 something or other. It was very long on the tooth but I don't like to keep constantly spending money to keep up with this stuff. Well my timing could not have been better because I picked this card up for $180 after $50 rebate! I now have a pretty good machine for very cheap (e8400 and 2gig). I used my old hard drives and built the whole system for under $600. I have been playing TF2 and UT3 at max settings with no hickups (1280x1024). It's not overclocked and with the lastest drivers I've never had a freeze or blue screen. If the time comes I'll just get another and run them SLI and be equal to some of the fastest made today. So glad they made this upgrade path available with SLI. I don't know how good the ATI cards are but must say I could not be happier right now. So glad they happen to be having a price war, really benefits the customer instead of the CEO ;)
Customer Rating:
Summary: BFG = Beautiful Freakin' Graphics!
Comment: This is a very nice video card and is seriously fast. I went from an 8600 GTS to a 9600 GT to this, so now I basically feel like I've come full circle. It looks cool and produces vibrant graphics and images. The packaging was top-notch; I was especially impressed with the detailed setup poster. It provides excellent software compatibility. My 9600 GT produced what was known as the "Black Screen of Death" in a couple of my games (the card would crash and lock up my machine, requiring a hard reset), but my 9800 GTX doesn't seem to suffer from that same affliction. Vista rates it at 5.9 for both graphic indexes. With a mild overclock of 725 core/1813 shader/1150 memory I was able to reach 11,569 in 3DMark06. That's not earth-shattering, but then again, it's not horrible either. This card easily lets me play Unreal Tournament 3 and Test Drive Unlimited at full blast, I get very playable frame rates (on average) in DiRT at 1280 x 1024 with high detail levels, and it cuts through Doom 3 like a hot knife through butter at 1280 x 1024 ultra quality. Achieving 90 to 100+ frames per second in Need for Speed Underground 2 is typical for me.
Now, for the sake of being realistic, some cons. Actually, there aren't very many. I encountered some artifacts and a blue screen (system crash) once, but that was my own fault because I was being too aggressive with my overclocking. Everything is stable now (although I wish I could overclock this card further). Initially I had to deal with the fan speed issue (after increasing the fan speed, it would revert to its default state once a certain GPU temperature was reached), but the latest driver from Nvidia seems to have cleared that up. Other than that, I guess I could also mention that there actually are some rare (and I do mean rare) moments when game play is not quite as smooth as it could be; DiRT is an example of an intensely graphics-heavy racing sim that will occasionally stress even this card out. However, I'd say it's negligible because the card does perform very well on the whole. And okay, sure, this card is BIG and LONG, but my case is a full-size tower, so I was able to make it fit. Sorry, I don't play Crysis, so I can't comment on the card's performance with regards to that particular game.
SYSTEM SPECS: Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 case | Corsair TX750W PSU | EVGA nForce 780i MOBO | Intel Core 2 Quad (Q9300) @ 2.50 GHz | Tuniq Tower 120 CPU cooler | 2 GB Corsair DDR2 800 | BFG Tech GeForce 9800 GTX | Western Digital Caviar SE16 500 GB SATA | Samsung DVD+/-RW (SATA) | Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 | Yamaha YST-M15 speakers | ViewSonic VG2230wm 22" LCD | Vista Ultimate 32-bit
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