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By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 OCFU 1792 MB GDDR3 - 2.0 PCI Express Graphics Card BFGEGTX2951792OCFUBE (Personal Computers) This was supposed to be the all singing and dancing graphics card and I even bought a new PSU for this card, however the Windows performance index went down, FSX performance went down and BFG's support were unable to provide a reasonable explanation other than return it to Amazon.
The instructions for the card were generic for all BFG cards - I have since tried a 9500GT from BFG that had exactly the same instructions and also ended up being returned as the display drivers were repeatedly crashing (even the same drivers that worked perfectly on my 8600GT). Based on the experience with this card and the 9500GT I won't buy from BFG again. The specs look tempting, but the product failed to deliver on both occassions. By Evgueni Tchirkov (Cucuta, Colombia) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 OCFU 1792 MB GDDR3 - 2.0 PCI Express Graphics Card BFGEGTX2951792OCFUBE (Personal Computers) This is a second BFG card I have purchased & I have no regrets... The performance is out of charts: I have tested it with many games such as FarCry2, Crysis, MassEffect2, Bioshock, GTA IV, Borderlands and many other. The operation is flawless: no crashed, no hang ups, no video issues... All the games were tested at max resolution allowed by my monitor: 1920*1080 & all video settings at max. fps rate average was about 50 fps... The only detail I do not like in this card that it becomes pretty hot while playing... I`ve got to open the computer case, and put a big fan nearby... now, I`m thinking about water cooling system. However, I have no problems so far with this card. Highly recommended. By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 OCFU 1792 MB GDDR3 - 2.0 PCI Express Graphics Card BFGEGTX2951792OCFUBE (Personal Computers) I'm a "technophile" and I use this on a pretty powerful machine, multi-booting in to multiple OS's (including both the 32 and 64 bit versions of XP and Fedora Linux, with others testing out but not being "kept" for the moment).
I use this machine for both productivity work (Pro/ENGINEER, Maya, etc) and for entertainment (games, movies, as well as casual computing like email, web-browsing, etc). For the record, I'm modified the card from the "as-shipped" configuration by removing the cooling solution and fitting a "Danger Den" supplied water-cooling solution. So, my experience is probably more stable than most, and there is NO "noise issue" experience, so I can't comment on the effectiveness or cooling ability of the stock cooler. What I can say is that this card literally overpowers anything else I've ever tried. For anyone not aware, this is effectively two complete video cards on one PCB, taking up one slot. (With the standard cooling...Read more |