BFG Technologies

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company_name = BFG Tech
company_type = Private
company_slogan = The Gamer's Choice!
foundation = 2001
location_city = Lake Forest, Illinois
location_country = United States
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num_employees =
industry = Graphics card, motherboard, power supply and PC accessory manufacturing
products = nVidia graphics cards, nVidia nForce motherboards, computer power supply units, AGEIA PhysX PPUs
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homepage = [http://www.bfgtech.com/ www.bfgtech.com]

BFG Technologies is a privately held U.S.-based supplier of premium 3D video cards based on NVIDIA graphics technology. BFG Technologies branded products are available in North America and Europe at retailers and e-tailers. The company's main headquarters is in unincorporated Lake County, Illinois, near Lake Forest.

Graphics cards

BFG makes graphics cards for midlevel and enthusiast computers. They were known for their Asylum brand; however, the NVIDIA 5x series of graphics accelerators were the last one to take that name. They are best known by computer enthusiasts for the OC (Overclocked) versions of their graphics cards. BFG was among the first graphics card companies to offer cards that were already overclocked from the standard recommended speeds.

Their latest flagship graphics cards are the BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 OCX as an air cooled solution and the BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 H2OC as a water cooled solution.

Mainboards

BFG Technologies manufactures motherboards for both AMD and Intel solutions. Their motherboards are based on Nvidia chipsets. [citeweb|url=http://bfgtech.com/Product.aspx?Category=Motherboards|title=BFG Tech - Products, Motherboards]

Power supplies

BFG Technologies manufactures a full range of power supply units for ATX compatible PCs. BFG's power supply line up had consisted of 530W, 550W, 600W, 650W, 800W and 1000W in the past [citeweb|url=http://www.bfgtech.com/Product.aspx?Category=Legacy%20Products|title=BFG Tech's Legacy Product listing] , but since has been refined to separate categories for separate markets.

The GS Series consists of the GS-550 and GS-650, 550W and 650W power supplies respectively, and is sold as a mainstream unit, rated at peak power and at room temperature and are sold almost exclusively at retail stores like Best Buy. The LS Series is BFG Technologies mainstream series, consisting of the LS-550 550W power supply and LS-680 680W power supply. These are rated at continuous power and at a more realistic 40°C. [citeweb|url=http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUxNCwsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0|title=HardOCP Review of BFG Tech's LS-550 & 680 Power Supplies] The flagship of BFG Technologies' power supply offerings is the ES Series, which currently only consists of one model: The ES-800. This unit is not only rated at continuous and 40°C, but features a technology marketed as "Frequency Conversion" which is a term used to define a method of changing the switching frequency of the power supply to coincide with load. This allows the unit to be as efficient as possible even at very low loads while conventional designs may be significantly less efficient at loads below 10%. [citeweb|url=http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ2NywsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0|title=HardOCP Review of BFG Tech's ES-800 Power Supply]

PhysX cards

BFG Technologies offers a 128mb PPU that uses Ageia's PhysX processing chip and libraries. The card is only available in a PCI version. [citeweb|url=http://bfgtech.com/Product.aspx?Category=PhysX%20Card|title=BFG Tech - Products, PhysX Cards]

References

External links

* [http://www.bfgtech.com/ BFG Technologies website]
* [http://www.bfgpower.com/ BFG's Power Supply micro-site]