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Captain tycho wrote:I'm getting a BFG 7800GTX, which is faster than the vanilla card, comes pre-overclocked, has a better onboard fan (IIRC), and runs better in total.

The deal I linked to dealt with a BFG GTX. For real.

One thing you need to know about BFG cards, however, is that their fan/heatsinks aren't the best. Also, my BFG 6800 (one that I got from an RMA) had almost no thermal compound making contact with the chip.

Hamel wrote:

Captain tycho wrote:I'm getting a BFG 7800GTX, which is faster than the vanilla card, comes pre-overclocked, has a better onboard fan (IIRC), and runs better in total.

The deal I linked to dealt with a BFG GTX. For real.

One thing you need to know about BFG cards, however, is that their fan/heatsinks aren't the best. Also, my BFG 6800 (one that I got from an RMA) had almost no thermal compound making contact with the chip.

So side question... how to fix that if it happens?

Ace Pace wrote:

Hamel wrote:

Captain tycho wrote:I'm getting a BFG 7800GTX, which is faster than the vanilla card, comes pre-overclocked, has a better onboard fan (IIRC), and runs better in total.

The deal I linked to dealt with a BFG GTX. For real.

One thing you need to know about BFG cards, however, is that their fan/heatsinks aren't the best. Also, my BFG 6800 (one that I got from an RMA) had almost no thermal compound making contact with the chip.

So side question... how to fix that if it happens?

I took off the heatsink/fan and applied some Artic Silver 5 to the core and put it back together. That voided my warranty to hell and back but I don't want to bother with yet another RMA.