Just a couple of weeks ago we had the honor of bringing you guys a view on the GeForce GTX 295. And that article proved one thing, it's going to be welcomed into the high-end arena with open arms. It's impressive, it's fast and heck it even looks good too. And you know what guys? We're excited as we love the high-end gear and the gaming that goes along with these. Also for this article, we have received a new final driver, the ForceWare 181.20 and we're happy to report that in several scenarios it made these games roughly ten percent faster than the preview we have shown you. Now though that might not sound like a lot, trust us in the high-end gaming segment it's pretty frickin significant. - Guru3D

BFG GeForce GTX 295 1792MB Graphics Card Review

So dual GPU based graphics cards, in the past few years we've seen them a couple of times. The last one released from team green was their GeForce 9800 GX2. By itself a pretty interesting card. Though every now and then also haunted by driver issues. This is the reality of any multi GPU solution really. Rendering a game with multiple graphics processors is increasingly more difficult opposed to using just one GPU. And we know we have said this many times already, this is why typically we prefer a single GPU based high-end board over the dual GPU solution, that doesn't mean though that things have improved over the years.

The biggest positive for the GeForce GTX 295 for example is that it can continue on existing technology. And it's exactly what is happening inside that GeForce GTX 295 graphics card, the two GPU's are bridged together and SLI takes place internally, rendering your games based on profiles in the drivers, like alternate frame rendering. Typically NVIDIA uses two PCB's which adds more overall cost to the design. Secondly, and that goes for any multi GPU based system, you can double up everything. This means you now have two GPU's that need to get rid of their heat, which requires extra cooling and more power supply capacity.

We honestly say that we really enjoyed using BFG's GeForce GTX 295. It offers an incredible amount of raw horsepower to render your games. In addition to the preview, we have shown you that though power consumption by itself is high, it's actually pretty good for a product of this class. Temperatures are okay, noise levels are okay, performance is grand and heck if you still do not have enough you can overclock the little fucker as well. And yeah, overclocking wise we were able to pull a rabbit out of a hat, it's a very tweakable product as it seems. What do you get for $499? Well, a product that offers extreme performance.

Initially when we heard about the GeForce GTX 295 we had a little doubt. We are not a big fan of dual GPU solutions. You can get confronted with driver issues or games that are unsupported when they are new. That opinion of ours has not changed, we're single GPU kinda guys. But we have to admit, the GeForce GTX 295 card took us by surprise as we really seem to like it. The performance is astounding, the price is reasonable and any other variable we mentioned in this article is just looking good. Mind you that BFG will also go even more extreme and build water cooled version of the GeForce GTX 295, very interesting.

BFG covers your products with a lifetime warranty and made the bundle really interesting. If you decide to place $499 smackaroonies on the table for this card nobody will hold a grudge against you, in fact everybody will be nodding wisely at you. You would be making a very valid choice.