BFG GeForce 7900 GS OC

BFG takes lots of pride in their GeForce 7900 GS OC. Again, like the ASUS GeForce 7900 GS, the card is based on NVIDIA’s GeForce 7900 GS reference board design. Card manufacturers like ASUS and BFG like to stick with NVIDIA’s reference board design so they can bring their cards to market more quickly. After all, it takes time to properly develop, test, and manufacture custom board designs and cooling; it’s much easier to just stick with NVIDIA’s stock equipment and go from there.

Like ASUS, BFG uses a blue PCB for their GeForce 7900 GS board, and also like ASUS, BFG chooses not to equip their GeForce 7900 GS board with the crypto-ROM chip that stores the card’s unique HDCP key. This chip is required for HDCP support and can’t be added by the end user after the fact.

If you’re familiar with BFG graphics cards, you no doubt know by now that the “OC” in the card’s title stands for “overclocked” as BFG overclocks all their OC boards from the factory for added performance over stock. In the case of the GeForce 7900 GS OC BFG clocks the board at 525MHz on the graphics core, 75MHz higher than the stock GeForce 7900 GS card’s 450MHz (an improvement of 14%), while the board’s memory runs at the stock 7900 GS clock speed of 660MHz (1.32GHz effective).

Since BFG just overclocks the graphics core, this limits what the card can do over the stock GeForce 7900 GS somewhat, but again, it’s still an improvement.

Besides the factory overclock, the other major selling point of BFG’s GeForce 7900 GS OC is its warranty and support program. The card is backed by BFG’s lifetime warranty – if anything happens to your graphics card over the course of ownership, whether your fan fails or any other board level component, BFG will repair it. If it isn’t fixable, BFG will replace your card entirely. BFG also provides 24/7 toll-free tech support, as well as online support at their website, bfggaming.com.

Its because of their warranty and support that BFG has earned a loyal following of repeat card owners.

To save costs, BFG doesn’t include a game bundle with their GeForce 7900 GS OC, instead inside the board’s packaging you’ll find two DVI adapters, power adapter, S-Video cable, and HDTV cable.