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- Date:
- Thursday , January 08, 2009
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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BFGTech GeForce GTX 295
Today marks the launch of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 and BFGTech has their GeForce GTX 295 retail box ready to go. We will take a very detailed look at gameplay performance between the BFGTech GeForce GTX 295 in six games with an AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 and GeForce GTX 260 SLI. We also explore whether overclocking makes a difference.
BFGTech GeForce GTX 295
We are not going to sit here and regurgitate what we published only two weeks ago with our GeForce GTX 295 Preview. That preview contains the full specifications of the new GeForce GTX 295 and what it is all about. Please read that evaluation to see what is being launched here from NVIDIA today.
In this evaluation we are going to dive right into gameplay performance evaluation and then overclocking, with more testing planned in the future. We have taken special care to really find out if the GeForce GTX 295 is worth it or not.
We know that’s what it comes down to for you guys, as well as what kind of gameplay experience is delivered in comparison to the competition. The only way we could do this was to include as many games as we could in the time allotted. In this evaluation we have six games being used to make comparisons. We have also chosen our video cards to compare to very carefully and there are some surprises on that front as well which we will talk about in the conclusion.
First, let’s talk about the BFGTech GeForce GTX 295. We have a retail boxed BFGTech GeForce GTX 295 which is clocked at the NVIDIA reference clock speeds for the GTX 295. As you may or may not know BFGTech offers a lifetime warranty on their video cards with free tech support. The BFGTech GeForce GTX 295 has an MSRP of $499.
BFGTech does include an HDMI cable with the bundle which is a plus. They also include an 8-pin PCIe adapter. It is good to actually see the proper hardware supplied to exploit the features of the video card without having to go buy an extra cable or connector. Other than that, there is nothing special about this video card that sets it apart from the rest that we have discovered yet.
The BFGTech GeForce GTX 295 appears to look exactly like the reference GTX 295 except it has a BFGTech label on the heatsink shroud. You do need one 6-pin power connector and one 8-pin to use this video card, or use the supplied 8-pin adapter if you only have 6-pins available. Installation was a breeze; we experienced no trouble getting it installed and running our games.