BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC

I have had this graphics card now for roughly two years. It has been able to run most games that have come out in those years on full settings, excluding very graphics hungry games like Crysis and Grid; but will still play them. The fact that it comes overclocked by BFG was a big selling point for me, as I knew if I tried to do it manually I would probably break it. However, there are some issues with this graphics card. The first fact is that it gets hot. Not ridiculously, but a lot of graphics cards at the same price have much better cooling systems. Number two is the installation of the card. It is very big, and therefore blocks up pci slots, so if you have lots of ...  Read the complete review

The 8800 GTS is a now a fairly dated graphics card, it was released by Nvidia back in 2007. Back in 2007 I decided to build my own PC - as I like to play games and use 3d modelling programs It needed to be powerful and have a lot of graphical processing power under its hood. After a lot of research in to graphics cards I realised that the choice would end up being from either ATI or Nvidia. I chose this card. There was no technical reason why I chose Nvidia over Radeon, but unlike ATI cards, I did understand the GeForce naming conventions. Basically, the different cards are sorted in to 3 categories and the letters after the number signify ...  Read the complete review

Today it seems like companies are releasing a bigger and better graphics card every single day. It can be very frustrating when you fork out lots of cash (around £450 to today's standard) for a top of the range graphics card. To be honest I really don't see the point in saving up that money a blowing it on that kind of graphics card when in the next week or so something better is going to be on the market and it leaves you wishing you would of waited. When I was looking for a graphics card over a year ago I decided it would be goo to go for a mid range gamers graphics card and I couldn't be happier with my choice. When this card first came out it was one of the best ...  Read the complete review