Cheapest price on BFG BFGE981024GTGE NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2 0 Graphics Card with EcoIntelligence Low Power Design
Band : BFG Technologies
Model : BFGE981024GTGE
Product Features :
- New EcoIntelligence design delivers 9800 GT class performance while reducing power consumption by up to 30
- The perfect combination of price and performance with 112 stream processors and fast GDDR3 memory
- Full Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4 0 and PCI Express 2 0 support
- Free 24/7/365 Tech Support and Lifetime Warranty
- Display Connectors 2 Dual Link DVI I
>> great card for the lower price
My 5 star rating means got what I paid for but I might not have gotten the EcoIntelligence feature if I knew that underclocks the card s speed
Here s the BFG webpage for this product where you can read its exact specs and requirements
In case the page dies later it says 550M Hz core clock possibly underclocked compared to a non green 9800 GT ALSO let me quote the requirements for your computer s power supply
350W PCI Express compliant system power supply with a combined 12V current rating of 22A or more
I was shocked this card only needs 22A but make sure your system supports it Also the card gets all its power directly from the PCI E slot and you don t plug an extra PCI E power connector anywhere else It s a pretty performance powerful card so this was shocking I guess it really does some efficiency magic with the smaller power it consumes
Never noticed loud fan noise from it although some have suggested it does Maybe my regular case fans are somewhat louder than average already so I never noticed the card
I play Crysis on all High settings with this card Never measured the frame rates but almost everything in Crysis look/feels smooth in the HIGH settings except in a few heavy processing parts of the game Half Life 2 Episode 2 plays perfectly throughout on the very highest settings with AA maxed out and I think even with VSync on
Even though EcoIntelligence sounds like an oxymoron for people who spend extra money for a high performance video expansion e g if you re really super green then don t play foolish high performance video games etc I think it lowers the price at least so it brings a great card s price down to the poor man like myself The performance is still darn good although maybe more money would raise its clock speed which you can t raise manually for this model
>> good for the price
is a good video card I expected a little more but meets expectations most of all because I can play call of duty 5 to full and because it is so expensive
>> computer upgrades
Arrived promptly So far it is a great graphics card especially as I didn t have to upgrade power pack to use this card
