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BFG Exiting Graphics Card Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-pixels dept.

thsoundman writes news that BFG appears to be giving up on the graphics card side of its business. The company's chairman said in a statement: "After eight years of providing innovative, high-quality graphics cards to the market, we regret to say that this category is no longer profitable for us, although we will continue to evaluate it going forward. We will continue to provide our award-winning power supplies and gaming systems, and are working on a few new products as well. I'd like to stress that we will continue to provide RMA support for our current graphics card warranty holders, as well as for all of our other products such as power supplies, PCs, and notebooks."

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  1. Re:Oh well by BikeHelmet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Kinda sad to see them go. They've always provided good warranty support.

    eVGA is pretty much killing off all the competition by being totally awesome.

    They encourage overclocking, their warranties aren't voided by cooling mods, and their prices are competitive (or often better than) XFX and BFG's. For some reason, eVGA cards usually overclock better, too.

    eVGA wants their customers to use their hardware, hard. They encourage folding, among other things. Their rank proves it.

    I like the company. My last card was either going to be an eVGA GTS 250 ($140 at the time), BFG GTS 250 ($135 after MIR), or Asus GTS 250($90 after MIR). I went for the Asus one, which was actually a mistake. The GDDR3 overheated at stock speeds, and had to be underclocked 40%... until I modded the cooling ($15), and then I could overclock by nearly 20%. This pales in comparison to my last eVGA card (a 7900GS), which attained 70% overclocks on the core and memory.