BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX review
Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/27/2009 02:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]

The card feeds off the PCIe bus and the two 6-pin power converters, loveleh as the previous generation GTX 280 required an 8-pin connector as well.

Next to the DVI connectors, and to your upper middle you can spot the two SLI fingers. Two fingers mean you can hook up to three cards with each other in SLI mode for a little two or threesome. Aah, the silent wish of every man. By the way, if you like to learn about 2-way and 3-way SLI with the GTX 285, please check this article.

Alright, one last look before we secure the card into our peachy test system.

Here we see the BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX in action. This is the new test system, Core i7 @ 3.7 GHz, 6 GB DDR3 memory on an ASUS Rampage II Extreme x58 motherboard, tied to a 1200 Watt PSU. Well yeah... that's pure sex for geeks.
BFG have worked their magic again and teamed up with the guys and gals from CoolLIT systems, a company designing sometimes awkward yet always interesting cooling products. As such BFG released two products based on CoolIT's cooling; here at Guru3D we will test and review the BFG GeForce GTX 295 H2OC (limited edition), that's a self-contained easy to install liquid cooling solution preinstalled onto the GeForce GTX 295 filled with coolant and everything; this kit has a 120mm fan, radiator, pump, graphics card cooling block, tubing and reservoir all ready to be inserted into the PC for some tender love and care in your gaming experience.
BFG GeForce GTX 295 H20 review (water cooling)
BFG is the first to bring a liquid-cooled GeForce GTX 295 to the market. As extravagant liquid cooling a GeForce GTX 295 really is, the end results in cooling performance, gaming performance and the incredible aesthetics a product like this offers is extraordinary. So in this article we'll chat a little about the GTX 295 technology, then have a look at BFG's bundle, a really extensive photo-shoot, look at performance with the hottest games available, overclock it until it nearly dies... and then sum it all up in our verdict.
BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX review
We'll look at BFG finest GeForce GTX 285 offering. See, just like many of NVIDIA's board partners BFG offers the product in several flavors. The offer their regular OC edition, yet also OC+, OC2 and OCX editions. They've got quite a range. We'll explain the difference over the next few pages. Let us have a peek of what's under the hood of the BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX.
BFG GeForce GTX 280 OCX review
OCX is short for 'Overclocking eXtreme' and it literally boils down to the fact that this is BFG's most high-end specced product in whatever the product range might be. Today we take the fastest NVIDIA graphics card available on the planet. The GeForce GTX 280. A 1400 million transistor counting piece of merchandise that raises the bar of single-GPU graphics processing.
