BFG BFGE981024GTGE NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card with EcoIntelligence Low Power Design

by BFG Technologies

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 3 x 10 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00288BH9K
• Item model number: BFGE981024GTGE
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Less Power Consumption, Same Great Performance The BFG GeForce 9800 GT with EcoIntelligence low power design reduces power consumption by up to 30% as compared to a standard GeForce 9800 GT graphics card. The EcoIntelligence version no longer requires a supplementary power connector from your power supply, yet still delivers the same great 9800 GT-class performance as previous versions.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing card!, August 18, 2009

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Liqwicked (Southern California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BFG BFGE981024GTGE NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card with EcoIntelligence Low Power Design (Personal Computers)

I bought this card from here because the price was decent - I compared it with many other on line stores and with tax and shipping, this is decently priced.

I upgraded this card from a no-fan 7950GT xfx card.
Now I can run COD and many others in close to max settings.
Even my wife was stunned at how the games looked after installing this card.

Here are a few things that made me purchase this card.

1. Eco friendly card = this card does not require you to insert a power plug into the card - it does not even have a plug for it.

2. I have dell E521 case which is not a conventional case - I cannot get any video card that takes up 2 slots. This was the best single slot card out at the market (as of June 2009) in terms of the specs and everything. It's on the smaller side for card at this level.

3. I used to have no-fan 7950gt card which had no noise but it got really hot inside of the case and sometimes would affect the cpu fan because of the temperature increase - now I do not have such problem anymore.

4. under full load it does make some fan noises but it's not bad at all. pretty low humming noise

This card is SLI compatible but i don't have an sli compatible board. it's one of the best cards out there for budget, above mid-range performance video card. As of now, I run WoW, CoD5, Crysis at nearly max settings with above 40+ fps.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great card for the price., December 28, 2009

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S. Selvey (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BFG BFGE981024GTGE NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card with EcoIntelligence Low Power Design (Personal Computers)

I purchased this card to upgrade my original NVIDIA GeForce 9600GS. For just a little over $100, this card is a major bargain. I can easily run World of Warcraft, Aion, Left 4 Dead, and Dragon Age: Origins maxed out. Dragon Age is the most tolling of the games listed but this card had no problems at all running it smoothly. Also runs applications like Photoshop great. You won't get more bang for your buck. Also very easy to install.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great card for the lower price, March 14, 2010

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J. Turbyfill "Is_God_The_Devil_In_Exile" (Augusta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BFG BFGE981024GTGE NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1 GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card with EcoIntelligence Low Power Design (Personal Computers)

My 5-star rating means "got what I paid for", but I might not have gotten the "EcoIntelligence" feature if I knew that underclocks the card's speed.

Here's the BFG webpage for this product, where you can read its exact specs and requirements:
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In case the page dies later, it says 550M-Hz core clock (possibly underclocked compared to a "non-green" 9800 GT). ALSO, let me quote the requirements for your computer's power supply:
350W PCI Express®-compliant system power supply with a combined 12V current rating of 22A or more

I was shocked this card only needs 22A... but make sure your system supports it. Also the card gets all its power directly from the PCI-E slot, and you don't plug an extra PCI-E power connector anywhere else! It's a pretty performance-powerful card, so this was shocking - I guess it really does some efficiency magic with the smaller power it consumes(?).

Never noticed loud fan noise from it - although some have suggested it does. Maybe my regular case fans are somewhat louder than average already, so I never noticed the card.

I play Crysis on all-High settings with this card. Never measured the frame-rates, but almost everything in Crysis look/feels smooth in the HIGH settings except in a few heavy-processing parts of the game. Half-Life-2-Episode-2 plays perfectly throughout on the very highest settings, with AA maxed out and I think even with VSync on.

Even though EcoIntelligence sounds like an oxymoron for people who spend extra money for a high-performance video expansion (e.g. if you're really super-green then don't play foolish high-performance video games etc), I think it lowers the price at least.. so it brings a great card's price down to the poor man, like myself. The performance is still darn good, although maybe more money would raise its clock speed (which you can't raise manually for this model..).