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BFG GeForce 7600 & 7900 GT OC 256MB Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 |
I'm happy to say that we finally have established relations with BFG, and not in that way either. Living in a really small country made it hard for us to get the samples overseas. Luckily for us BFG have grown extensively and is currently one of the biggest players in the graphics industry. Manufacturers fight against each other to offer you the best and fastest product for a good price. So this is also the segment where you'll see special editions of graphics cards and that's what we'll look at today. BFG manufactures the GeForce 7600 GT and 7900 GT but as trendy as it is, they brand it as a special OC version. These are the pre-clocked on both the memory and graphics processor. - Guru3D
 BFG GeForce 7600 & 7900 GT OC 256MB Review
The GeForce 7600 GT is a very competitive product in the mid-range market. Armed with the development codename G73, the chip again was made on the newer 90nm fabrication process. For a mid-range product it has a rather large transistor count, no less than 177 million transistors can be found on the GeForce 7600 GT silicon. You receive a graphics processor with 12 fully fetched pixel pipelines running at a 560MHz frequency with five active vertex processors. The product has eight ROP's. The memory however is still 128-bit whereas I wish it would have been boosted to 256-bit by now.
The BFG standard OC version video cards then, a pre-overclocked GeForce 7600 GT offers higher than reference core and memory frequencies. As stated, NVIDIA's recommended clock speeds are 560MHz GPU and 1.4GHz memory for the GeForce 7600 GT series of cards. BFG has this card fully warrantied and overclocked at 580MHz GPU and 1.45GHz memory. Okay so no that's not a huge overclock but still every little bit helps right? That 1.45GHz clocked memory is 256MB in total and carries the popular GDDR3 flavor. The GeForce 7600 GT has one dual-link DVI connector and one single-link DVI connector.
The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT is a top segment mid-range product yet offering performance close to high-end graphics cards for an amazing price. The GeForce 7900 GT is pretty much a slowed down version of big daddy GeForce 7900 GTX. This product has the very same pixel pipelines and vertex processors as the GTX, in fact it's the same G71 chip yet it's clocked significantly slower at 450MHz. BFG offers the GeForce 7900 GT OC, it has all the functions and specifications as mentioned, again we have slightly higher clocked core and memory speeds. The graphics core is clocked at 475MHz and the memory is running at 1360MHz.
It is with great pleasure that we have checked out BFG's latest graphics cards. The BFG products are both very impressive. From what I can see, high-quality build PCB and components are being used, you receive pre-clocked products for roughly the same amount of money as the regular version and next to that you just can't beat that lifetime warranty; which I think is just amazing. It also shows that BFG believes in their products, if you use cheap components to manufacture a product, would you offer a lifetime warranty? Nope, mighty impressive indeed, both products are pure about the hardware and nothing else.
With that being said I would like to conclude. Obviously I prefer BFG's GeForce 7900 GT OC, but evidently it's also a good $100 more expensive and that just does not fit's everybody's budget. Without a doubt the GeForce 7900 GT OC is my preferred card due to it's strong performance and that lovely price. No matter what product you choose you'll purchase a good quality video card, and did I mention the lifetime warranty. That lifetime warranty in conjunction with the factory pre-overclocking makes these cards just fantastic value.
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