Date:
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Author:
Mark Warner
Editor:
Brent Justice
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BFGTech GeForce 8800 GT OCX ThermoIntelligence

BFGTech has married OCX with ThermoIntelligence. We're here to evaluate the BFGTech GeForce 8800 GT OCX with ThermoIntelligence in three of today's hottest games. Find out if this supped up 8800 GT has what it takes to compete with the newly released ATI Radeon HD 4850, or is it time for the 8800 GT to take a hike?

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Test Setup

We will be using a quad-core CPU based platform on an ASUS Blitz Extreme motherboard and an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (Overclocked to 3.68GHz), and 4GB of OCZ 3P-1600EB4GK DDR3 to make sure the system will not be bottlenecking the GPUs.

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Comparison Setup

We are overclocking our CPU from 3.2GHz to 3.6GHz (11x333) so that we can reduce CPU limitations.

For the BFGTech GeForce 8800 GT OXC and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT we are using the latest WHQL drivers at the time of testing, version 175.19 for Windows Vista x64. For the Radeon HD 4850 we are using beta Catalyst drivers provided by AMD, based on Catalyst 8.6 code.

We also have Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista installed.

Please be aware we test our video cards a bit differently from what is the norm. We concentrate on examining the real-world gameplay that each video card provides. The Highest Playable section shows the best Image Quality delivered at a playable frame rate. To get a better understanding of what we do, please read this page.