BFG Tech GeForce 6600 GT OC (Solo and SLI)

With its lifetime warranty, it's easy to recommend the BFG Tech brand of video cards to people who ask for purchasing advice. A warranty isn't enough to sell a product though. BFG also consistently offers great performance and often top performance thanks to its "OC" line of graphic cards, which offer warrantied out-of-the-box overclocked speeds.

Today, I'm going to take a look at BFG's entry level SLI-capable card, the 6600 GT OC. This card comes with a 25MHz overclock on both the core and memory clock. It is also a dual DVI card with HDTV support. Read on to see how the card performs by itself and teamed up with a twin for some SLI action.

Features

• PCI Express™
• NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU ready
• Superscalar GPU architecture
• NVIDIA CineFX 3.0 engine
• High Speed GDDR3 memory interface
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support

Specifications

• BFG GeForce™ 6600 GT OC
• PCI Express™
• Memory 128MB GDDR3
• Core Clock 525MHz (vs. 500MHz standard)
• Memory Clock 1050MHz (vs. 1000MHz standard)
• RAMDAC Dual 400MHz
• Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and lower, OpenGL 1.5 and lower for Microsoft® Windows®
• Connectors Dual DVI-I, HDTV
• S-Video Out
• 393 million vertices/sec setup
• 16.8GB/second memory bandwidth

Bundle

• BFG GeForce™ 6600 GT OC graphics card
• Quick install manual
• DVI-I to VGA dongle x 2
• HDTV / Video-Out Cable
• Driver CD, which includes:
  • NVIDIA® ForceWare™ unified graphics drivers
  • NVIDIA® demos
  • Full installation manual .pdf
  • NVIDIA® NVDVD™ 2.0 multimedia software
  • Windowblinds™ BFG/NVIDIA® skins

The most exciting thing about the BFG 6600 GT OC is that you get a fully warrantied overclock out of the box, which means you know that you get better performance than any of the competition's stock 6600 GT's. The bundle, though, is not very exciting, but BFG manages to throw in NVDVD 2.0 and some Windowblinds BFG/NVIDIA skins. Many of us would like to see a good game or two in a bundle, but BFG typically does not follow that path. Rather, the company's focus is performance, hence the entire "OC" line of cards.