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BFG vs EVGA

bushmins

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Which is the best?

BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT OC2 512MB PCI Express Graphics Card
Chipset nVidia Geforce 8800GT
Video Memory Installed 512MB DDR3
Core Clock Speed 675MHz vs 600MHz Standard
Shader Clock Speed 1674MHz vs 1500MHz Standard
Memory Clock Speed 1950MHz
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 57.6
Texture Fill Rate (Billion Texels/sec) 35
Stream Processors 112
Shader Model 4

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EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT KO 512MB PCI Express Graphics Card
Chipset nVidia Geforce 8800GTS
Video Memory Installed 512MB DDR3
Core Clock Speed 675MHz Standard
Shader Clock Speed 1500MHz Standard
Memory Clock Speed 1950MHz
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 62.4
Stream Processors 112
Shader Model 4
 
The EVGA has a shader clock speed of 1674 not 1500.

http://www.evga.com/articles/378.asp

So they are identical.

Differences are BFG give lifetime warranty but EVGA is only 10 years (does that matter?)

EVGA allow you to overclock and change the cooler without voiding the warranty whereas BFG don't.

BFG RMA is England, EVGA is Germany.

EVGA have a 90 step up program.

Apart from that, down to price really.
 
Read what peeps have said who bought them and check out the CherryPicking/testing Review I posted by EVGA.

2 peeps at least have the BFG and it wont OC any amount (not that thats guaranteed anyhow) and could be 2 bad samples they have.
 
With evga you have to regester it within so many days or you dont get your warrenty or step up plan. I think the step up plan is really only worth it if you pay the premium prices as the recomended retail price is actually lower then the premium price.

Otherwize the step up price is more of a sham. You can normaly sell a card for more then its worth on the step up prices as shops usualy sell cards for less then the recomended retail price.
 
It best to sell the card yourself and buy the next one up, as e-tailors sell them for cheaper than EVGA, so if EVGA want £400 for the next card, and you can get it from here say for £350, doesn't matter, you have to pay the price difference to EVGA's £400, step-ups a con.
 
With some models yip, The Yank site (not a bad egg) was selling the 8800GT's (all 4 models) for $30 more than the EVGA store.

If you can sell your old hardware to a n00b then thats better obv.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
It best to sell the card yourself and buy the next one up, as e-tailors sell them for cheaper than EVGA, so if EVGA want £400 for the next card, and you can get it from here say for £350, doesn't matter, you have to pay the price difference to EVGA's £400, step-ups a con.
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Im thinking evga might be besty in my case. Im going to be buying the moment the GTS's go on preorder so ill be paying a premium id imagine for two cards, I was thinking later when something big and powerful comes out i may sell one and step up with the other if its more powerful then the SLI with the two GTS's. Or i could step up both of them if its not much more.
 
But your buying your EVGA GT at a £30-£50 premium.

The new GTS might only be £200-£210 on EVGA website and will proably be £50 more her sue to supply and demand so if you but Crysis special editin GT now for £210 you might have nothing to pay for a step up whereas you might onlt sell your GT for £130 due to them dropping back down in price soon.

Perhaps one of the few times the EVGA step up pans out good. In saying that anybody who bought an EVGA 8800 GTS 320Mb could swap for free to a GT so that was probably a good result as well
 
Im buying a GTS so irts likely it will be more like 270 quid each and then when something new comes out in 90 days i might be able to upgrade for like another 70 quid.
 
8igdave said:
Im buying a GTS so irts likely it will be more like 270 quid each and then when something new comes out in 90 days i might be able to upgrade for like another 70 quid.
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Maybe that much due to supply and demand but the lsit price is only £50 more than a GT and the GT was meant to be £140 (which it was for 2 hours) so even a EVGA branded card ought to be no more than £200-£220 but maybe only for an hour or two again.
 
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