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BFG GeForce 7900 GTX OC 512MB PCI-E

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Kurtis Kronk
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BFG
Jun. 6, 2006

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The Card & Bundle

The first thing you'll likely notice when you see the 7900 GTX is that it's a monster of a card. You can pretty well expect at this point that any top-of-the-line card from NVIDIA or ATI is going to take up two slots with a massive cooler. BFG, like most, decided to stick with the reference cooler and slap on a pretty sticker to call it their own.

Bundled with the card you will find a XL BFG t-shirt, some Teflon slick pads for your mouse, a driver CD, a CD with a free copy of GameDrive 9.0 (virtual CD program) along with a few 30-day software trials, some various documentation, and what would a BFG bundle be without stickers? My favorite: OMGWTFBFGSAUCE. BFG really does understand us gamers! OMGWTFEVGASAUCE just wouldn't be the same, hehe.

The base of the cooler which makes direct contact with the GPU is copper, and the rest of the cooler (including that which makes contact with memory) is aluminum, and you'll notice 4 aluminum heatpipes along the top of the card. While I'm talking about the cooler, I'd like to mention that it feels a little bit flimsy to me. Specifically, the plastic shroud which covers the heatsink is easy to bend, and just doesn't feel like quality craftsmanship. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter, but when you pay $500 for a video card, it would be nice if it felt solid.

On the front of the card there are 8 memory chips, specifically Samsung's K4J52324QC-BJ11 GDDR3 modules with a maximum frequency of 900MHz (1.8GHz DDR) running at 2.0V, for a total of 512MB. Forgive me for not having a better photo of the memory, it was barely readable no matter what angle you looked at it, so I had to go into photoshop to overlay the text so you can actually read it... There's not much to talk about on the back of the card - you won't find any memory modules back there, just some screws that hold the heatsinks in place.

On the edge of the card you will find a 6-pin PCI-Express auxiliary power connector - something you should pretty well expect to see on any high-end card. On the top edge of the card you will see the SLI connector. Outputs on the 7900 GTX include two dual-link DVI-I ports and an HDTV-out.

We'd like to thank Directron.com for donating the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 Motherboard which we used for testing.

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Page 2: The Card & Bundle
Page 3: Test Setup
Page 4: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2
Page 5: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Page 6: Benchmarks: Quake 4
Page 7: Benchmarks: X3 Reunion Demo
Page 8: Benchmarks: Chronicles of Riddick
Page 9: Benchmarks: F.E.A.R.
Page 10: Benchmarks: Need for Speed Most Wanted
Page 11: Benchmarks: 3DMark '06
Page 12: Overclocking & Stability
Page 13: Performance Summary
Page 14: Conclusion

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