BFG Tech exits GPU business

[Guru3D News]

As expected BFG Tech Announces Exit From Graphics Card Category Continues On With Power Supplies And Laptops/PCs Libertyville IL May 17 2010 BFG Technologies today announced their exit from the...

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[TeX_UK]

Sad news indeed .

[RS-X]

Why do they do that. BFG is one of the top Nvidia partners.

[goodald]

Crazy.... there are a lot of players inteh gpu field, so i expected someone to bow out.. but... bfg?

[Palerider]

Sad.Never used them, but still not good to see the loss of jobs, and competition.
I wonder if this will affect prices from the other partners.

[macdaddy]

yeah they were dying these past few years. Mobo section will go as well and recently read a post where someone RMA their PSU and got a Used with serial scratched off. Think company is going down. They are a great company from what i remember they where to first offer lifetime warranty ..... I guess its all those RMA had and effect ..... Evga next ???

[pimp_gimp]

Originally Posted by macdaddy

yeah they were dying these past few years. Mobo section will go as well and recently read a post where someone RMA their PSU and got a Used with serial scratched off. Think company is going down. They are a great company from what i remember they where to first offer lifetime warranty ..... I guess its all those RMA had and effect ..... Evga next ???

Not everything offers has a lifetime warranty, so I'm betting EVGA's doing a lot better.

[chispy]

Sad news indeed

[Matt26LFC]

Sure is sad news, my 8800GTS was BFG, loved that card. Unfortunatly i had to sell to help fund my Asus GTX275.

[Sutura]

I think this devision went down because of nVidia. Yesterday i had a quick look at the the sheer computing power of the GPU of Ati and nVidia. As much as it dissapoints me nVidia made an Ati buyer. What I mean: HD 5770 1GB has 1360 teraflops productivity and GTX 470 has about 1090!?!? The price: in my country 5770 1GB is 150 euros, and GTX 470 about 330 euros....for what>? PhysX and CUDA>? I know GTX has a huge advantage with FPS in games, but still....ain't worth it that much. XFX you know too had problems with nVidia's last gen GPU cards.

[DF-1]

Originally Posted by Sutura

I think this devision went down because of nVidia. Yesterday i had a quick look at the the sheer computing power of the GPU of Ati and nVidia. As much as it dissapoints me nVidia made an Ati buyer. What I mean: HD 5770 1GB has 1360 teraflops productivity and GTX 470 has about 1090!?!? The price: in my country 5770 1GB is 150 euros, and GTX 470 about 330 euros....for what>? PhysX and CUDA>? I know GTX has a huge advantage with FPS in games, but still....ain't worth it that much. XFX you know too had problems with nVidia's last gen GPU cards.

dont go by teraflops. its wrong. and theres no way a 5770 can beat a 470 in any game, just check the benchmarks.

[nhlkoho]

[Drunken Shooter]

I met some of their reps and they are really self centered and stuck up, poor representation means crap product this is the way I see it.
good riddance

[Elder III]

Only ever bought one BFG product, and it was good enough quality, I just hope it doesn't croak on me now.... :/

[Tat3]

Originally Posted by macdaddy

yeah they were dying these past few years. Mobo section will go as well and recently read a post where someone RMA their PSU and got a Used with serial scratched off. Think company is going down. They are a great company from what i remember they where to first offer lifetime warranty ..... I guess its all those RMA had and effect ..... Evga next ???

Evga isn't going to go down that easy. They are Nvidia's number 1. parther and have good market for gpu's and mobo's.

[Ajoobajabajeeba]

Originally Posted by nhlkoho

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!!
I was holding out for a BFG 480 too!

[cowie]

wow that sucks i like bfg
it was the second brand i ever got....(first was a pos ati card)i still have the card too a agp 6800 oc with a pretty blue light

[ross]

Did a lot of people expect this to happen after BFG left Europe?

I hope BFG can still make it with their power supplies.

[GhostXL]

EVGA will ALWAYS be there. Just look at newegg sales alone. EVGA has most of the top spots along with ASUS and MSI.

[nvlddmkm]

I've owned BFG stuff. Not too bad IMHO.

[Da{N}ka]

Piracy is the cause.

[MAD-OGRE]

Sigh, I had to RMA my GTX260's two weeks ago, finaly got the replacments back today, guess what.....
Both are bad, if you run any type of benchmark they instacrash and to top that off two of the three CS people I talked with were down right rude.

I will update this once the second round of RMA's go.

[F1refly]

^Odd to have 2 video cards bad at the same time....are you sure its not something else? How do games run? if games play then it can't be the video cards or probably drivers either for that matter but i assume you have done everything to make sure but still sounds odd to me.

[MAD-OGRE]

Originally Posted by F1refly

^Odd to have 2 video cards bad at the same time....are you sure its not something else? How do games run? if games play then it can't be the video cards or probably drivers either for that matter but i assume you have done everything to make sure but still sounds odd to me.

Yea I am 100% sure, I did ever test I know how to, and also did every thing BFG tech asked me for.
I did find it odd, if you look inside the card, you can see the TIM is coming out around the GPU and down onto the PCB.
I could aslo see some purple looking stuff around the base of the GPU, not sure what it is.

The BFG Tech told me they use Furmark to make sure they work before sending them out, they grey screen so quck they dont even have time to get hot.
I also tried the cards in 2 difrent PC's with the same out come.

[gurusan]

Originally Posted by Da{N}ka

Piracy is the cause.

? wtf does piracy have to do with computer hardware sales?