BFG has left the building: no more graphics cards
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Denji,
Posted on: 2010-05-18 22:27 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Well how the mighty have fallen. The development stall with the G9x family and the high prices with the GT200 series left manufacturers with a series problem when ATI finally got their hardware act together and came out with the HD 4xxx and HD 5xxx series of cards and slashed prices.
ATI had the right idea changed the game when they didn't try for the GPU crown and instead targeted the $200 price point. All nVidia could do is crow about PhysX and CUDA as they watched their market dominance slip away while the GTX 4xx series took forever to get done.
The same thing happened with AMD CPUs and the gamer market. Athlon 64s and X2s routed Pentium 4s and Ds. Then Intel came out with Core 2, which was twice as fast as the Pentium 4 cores and AMD had nothing. By the time fast Phenom IIs came out Intel was ready to move on to the i7 cores.
At least AMD has the sense to price their CPUs competitively relative to performance. nVidia still thinks that PhysX is worth an extra 20% premium.
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update: http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/07/...down_for_count
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| We are being told this morning by sources inside BFG Tech that its "PSU department" has been let go. I would suggest that if you have a BFG card that needs to be RMA'd, you need to get that done ASAFP. We do not see the company being "in business" much longer as it is reported that all its remaining inventory has been moved. |
Pretty much the last gasp of the long sordid saga of VisionTek, BFG, and nVidia.
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Damn, their cards were the most reliable for me, and the most competent OOTB OC's as well.
I don't want to gamble on eVGA anymore :/
Here's hoping my XFX GTX260 keeps my opinion of them lofty 
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Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus
This entire post should receive some kind of award for being both hysterical and fantastic.
Well done. |
XFX makes good stuff. The only "bad" products I've ever had from them were the 6600 GT AGP... and that was more because of Nvidia's board design placing the PCIE-AGP bridge connector at an odd angle.
PNY hasn't done me wrong as far as video cards go. So you might want to take this alternative to BFG. XFX is also another good alternative.
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/05/...exits_graphics
... I can almost hear the screams from Nvidia now.
For those unfamiliar with BFG, they have been one of the premier providers of Nvidia graphics cards, and were one of only two vendors (that I can recall), that actually produced AGEIA PHYSX add-in cards. They have announced that they are now exiting the graphics card market.
BFG's press release was clear that if you have bought a card from them, they still have stocks on hand to handle RMA's/repairs for registered users.
If you haven't registered your BFG graphics card... now would be a good time to do so.