Backed by free 24/7/365 world-class tech support and the best lifetime warranty in the industry, the BFG GeForce® GTX 280 OC2™ graphics card is overclocked out-of-the-box, saving you the risk and hassle of doing it yourself while keeping the lifetime warranty intact. In addition to ripping through DirectX 10 games at blazing fast frame rates and enabling realistic physical motion and massively destructible environments with NVIDIA’s new PhysX™ technology, the BFG GeForce GTX 280 OC2 graphics card gives your system the power of up to 240 multi-threaded processor cores, offloading the most intensive processing tasks from your CPU to your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).
Whether gaming, transcoding HD videos, or running Folding@home in the background while surfing the web, the BFG GeForce GTX 280 graphics card delivers performance improvements of up to 7x your traditional CPU, enabling truly endless computing possibilities.
Features
OC2™ overclocked to deliver improved frame rates and better overall performance in games
Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10, Shader Model 4.0 and PCI Express® 2.0 support
24/7/365 Free Tech Support and Lifetime Warranty
Display Connectors: 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, HDTV + TV Out
HDCP Capable, HDMI™ Capable
Tech Specs
Specifications
GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280
Bus Type: PCI Express® 2.0 (Backward compatible with PCI Express®)
Memory: 1GB (1024MB) GDDR3
Core Clock: 650MHz (vs. 602MHz standard)
Shader Clock: 1404MHz (vs. 1296MHz standard)
Memory Data Rate: 2326MHz (vs. 2214MHz standard)
Processor Cores: 240
Shader Model: 4.0
Texture Fill Rate: 52.0 Billion/sec.
Memory Interface: 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 148.9GB/sec.
API Support: Microsoft® DirectX® 10 and lower, OpenGL® 2.1 and lower for Microsoft Windows®
Display Connectors: 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, HDTV + TV Out
4 of 5FANTASTIC PRODUCT! (If the card hadn't have been d Monday, March 09, 2009 Calidius from Grand Rapids, MI
Pros: What can I say, this card is an amazing value for the price. With 240 Stream Processor's, 1GB of memory, and Nvidia's amazing driver support, you can't go wrong. It runs anything I throw at it full bore at 1680x1050. Crysis DX10 Highest possible settings everywhere, average 40FPS, drops to about 32FPS during some intense fight scenes. Frontlines Fuel of War, full settings, 53FPS average. Call of Duty 4, once agian max settings, 83FPS. Nothing this card can't handle. Also some people have mentioned heat being an issue, while it does get warm sometimes (63C under full load for me) this is WELL within specs at stock fan settings. If your card does run hot, just download a utility that lets you change your fan settings like Riva Tuner, and you should have no problems.
Cons: Not really a con since this is not Buy.com's fault, but I recieved my card damaged. The box was in perfect condition, but the card looked like it had been dropped as the metal fan grate (The one that lets out the air from the back of the computer and has the DVI toggles and such) was bent down like it had been dropped before it was boxed. Simply took some pliers and bent it back, card still works perfect. Power consumption was another worry for me, but turned out to be ok with my current power supply. I have an Ultra LS Series 600W power supply.
Overall: Fantastic card for the price. I would recconmend this product to any enthusist gamer looking for a moderately priced upgrade for their computer. I went from a Radeon 4850 1GB, and noticed alot of gain in all aspects of my gaming. Only reason I gave it 4 out of 5 stars is because it had been dropped.
My system specs: Processor: E8400 3GHz 3.4Ghz
Ram: 2GB OCZ Gold DDR3 1333MHz
Video Card: BFG Tech GeForce X280 GTX 1GB
HDD: 300GB Seagate Baracuda 7200 RPM 32MB cache
Power Supply: Ultra LS 600W
MoBo: MSI-X48c Platinum
Opporating System: Windows Vista Home Premium w/SP1
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