BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 Video Card - 512MB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, Video Card at TigerDirect.com
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BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 Video Card - 512MB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, Video Card

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 512MB PCIe 2.0
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Item Number: B52-8804
Model: BFGE88512GTOC2E
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BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 Video Card
Annihilate the competition with your new BFG NVIDIA GeForce® 8800 GT OC2™ 512MB PCI Express graphics card with mind blowing speeds and vividly realistic, sun-up to sun-down HDR lighting effects. Enter a new gaming reality with the world’s first DirectX® 10 GPU and a powerful unified architecture that delivers an incredibly true-to-life gaming experience. Crank up 16x full-screen anti-aliasing without missing a beat – no jaggies, no worries. And when you’re not destroying the enemy, relax watching your favorite movies with NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology.

Upgrade Your Graphics for the Best Gaming Experience
Recommended for monitors up to 30" for the best gaming experience. Play ultra realisticgames and video playback in HD!


Before you buy - make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.

NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface)
NVIDIA SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface) technology is a revolutionary approach to scalability and increased performance. NVIDIA SLI takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express™ bus architecture, and features hardware and software innovations within NVIDIA GPUs (graphics processing units) and NVIDIA nForce4 MCPs (media and communications processors). Together the NVIDIA SLI patent-pending technologies work seamlessly to deliver heart-pounding PC performance. And depending on the application, NVIDIA SLI can deliver as much as 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences.

NVIDIA Unified Architecture
Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering an incredibly true-to-life 3D graphics.

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NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine
Support for 128-bit and 64-bit floating point HDR with up to 16x anti-aliasing delivering vividly realistic lighting effects while obliterating ‘jaggies’.

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Microsoft DirectX 10 Geometry Shaders
Dynamic geometry creation smoothes surfaces and enables incredibly detailed environments, shadows, and effects.

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NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ Technology
Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation deliver amazing performance and visual effects such as smoke, fire, and explosions.

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Shader Model 4.0 Technology
Get your box geared up for the future of games with blazing fast shader performance and watch your characters sweat with Shader Model 4.0.

NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and picture clarity.

High Dynamic Range (HDR)
High dynamic-range(HDR) lighting effects bring environments to life for a truly immersive experience. It takes advantage of the subtle light, texture, and color intricacies to create incredibly realistic environments.

HDCP Compliant
HDCP (high definition content protection) is a standard that is encoded into the video signal to prevent it from being pirated. If a source device is HDCP coded and is connected to a HDTV display or projector without the proper HDCP decoding mechanism, the picture is relegated to “snow” or in some cases, very low (480P) resolutions of the images. In order to see HDTV with HDCP compliance, both the source and display devices must be equipped with DVI connections that can enable HDCP decoding.

NVIDIA Essential Vista
NVIDIA® GeForce® GPUs are essential for accelerating the Windows Vista experience by offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased productivity, vibrant photos, smooth, high-definition videos, and realistic games.

PCI Express 2.0 Support
PCI Express Base 2.0 specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s in a seamless and compatible manner. The performance boost to 5 GT/s is by far the most important feature of the PCI Express 2.0 specifications. It effectively increases the aggregate bandwidth of a 16-lane link to approximately 16 GB/s. The higher bandwidth will allow product designers to implement narrower interconnect links to achieve high performance.


Specifications

  GPU/VPU:  NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
  Additional Features:  RoHS Compliant
  HDCP Enabled
  HDTV Ready
  SLI Ready
  DirectX 10
  PCI Express 2.0
  Vista Certified
  Maximum Resolution:  2560 x 1600 (Digital)
  Video Memory:  512MB
  Memory Type:  GDDR3
  Memory Interface:  256-bit
  Stream Processors:  112
  Core Clock:  675 MHz
  Memory Clock:  1950 MHz
  Shader Clock:  1675 MHz
  Memory Bandwidth:  62.4GB/sec.
  Interface Type:  PCI Express 2.0
  Interface Speed:  x16
  Connector(s):  Dual DVI (Dual Link)
  HDTV/S-Video
  Multiple Monitors Support:  Yes
Detailed Features

A Closer Look


Features

  • Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
    NVIDIA's fourth-generation GPU architecture built for Windows Vista gives users the best possible experience with the Windows Aero 3D graphical user interface, included in the new operating system (OS) from Microsoft.
  • Full DirectX 10 Support
    World's first DirecX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphic realism and film-quality effects
  • OpenGL 2.0 Optimizations and Support
    Ensures top-Notch compatiblity and performance for OpenGL applications
  • NVIDIA SLI™ Technology
    Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single graphics card configuration for unequaled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express® graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on today's hottest games.
  • NVIDIA Unified Architecture
    Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs.
  • NVIDIA Lumenex Engine
    Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ultra-fastfrmae rates
  • NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology
    Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU - all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI
  • GigaThread™ Technology
    Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
  • NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology
    The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
  • NVIDIA ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
    Delivers a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications. ForceWare provides the best out-of-box experience for every user and delivers continuous performance and feature updates over the life of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.

Minimum System Requirements

  • 1GB of system memory
  • Microsoft Windows Vista -or- Windows XP
  • CD or DVD-ROM drive
  • 50MB of available hard disk drive space for basic driver installation
  • 425W PCI Express-compliant system power supply with a combined 12V current rating of 28A or more (Minimum system power requirement based on a standard PC configured with an Intel® Core™2 Extreme X6800 processor)
  • PCI Express-compliant motherboard with one vacant PCI Express x16 slot
  • One 6-pin PCI Express supplementary power connector -or- Two 4-pin Molex supplementary power connectors
Customer Reviews and Rating  
Customer Rating:    4.7
Customer Reviews: 13

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Value 4.7
Features 4.9
Quality 4.4
Performance 4.7

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Reviewer:  Anonymous  on  Aug 25, 2008
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

Great buy!, however you CAN warm your coffee on it easily, is no danger to the card or your pc, just up your fan manually. asus m2n Sli deluxe. amd 64x2 6400,only 2 gigs OCZ SLI ram, and i run cod 4 MAXED out, constant EASY 160 fps. uncapped upto 360, or higher. Great buy, runs every game. And when 1 day it doesn't. SLI ANOTHER 1!!!. Your set. buy iT!


Reviewer:  Markus Aur on  Aug 15, 2008
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

Ah Yes'' Tiger Direct'',,,,going to get three of these babies,to slam onto my Asus Striker Formula 2 Mobo,,,,hmmmmm three way sli in a thermal take liquid cooled case, 700,watts of power, two hd's set in raid nada striped one vista hp 64 bit,the other xp pro,he he he,(no more computer parts for you the wife says),obviously she hasn;t been to T.D. i'll let you know how it turns out gang,i wonder if that dude is still trying to find a power supply that actually has 24 pins lol.


Reviewer:  Mohagrus on  Jul 08, 2008
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

OMG THIS CARD IS CRAZZY ITS SMASHES THE 3870 BUY THIS CARD I AM GETING 51 to 30 FPS in crysis and age of conan i am geting from 60 to 90 its crazy no lag what so ever i cant wait to get 1more so i can go sli and they say this card runs hot liesssss it idols at 51c to 61c at full load its in the 70s they is gets to 90c bs BUY NOW GREAT Card!!!!


Reviewer:  Anonymous  on  Jul 02, 2008
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

This card is awsome the clock is set at 675 but you can push it more than that. I have mine at 748 mhz. Cant wait till pay day to get another one.


Reviewer:  ruapet on  Jun 15, 2008
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

Great card. Run fan at 61% and drops from 61c to 53c. Fan set factory at 30%. Still quiet at 61 but might here it at first speed up. Great peformance and worth getting 2.


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What You Should Know
DVI: Digital Visual Interface!  What Is It?

Monitors come supporting different video connector technologies:  VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, or combinations.  Not every monitor supports these, so check the specifications carefully before making your selection.

The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is the most popular high-quality digital connection for monitors (though HDMI is quickly becoming its equal in popularity).  DVI is a video interface standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It was developed by an industry consortium, the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG). It is designed for carrying uncompressed digital video data to a compatible monitor or projector, and is partially compatible with the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D).   DVI represents a major improvement in image quality over the older VGA standard. 

The DVI interface uses a digital protocol in which the desired illumination of pixels is transmitted as binary data. When the display is driven at its native resolution, it will read each number and apply that brightness to the appropriate pixel. In this way, each pixel in the output buffer of the source device corresponds directly to one pixel in the display device, whereas with an analog signal the appearance of each pixel may be affected by its adjacent pixels as well as by electrical noise and other forms of analog distortion.

Previous standards such as the analog VGA were designed for CRT-based devices and thus did not use discrete time display addressing. As the analog source transmits each horizontal line of the image, it varies its output voltage to represent the desired brightness. In a CRT device, this is used to vary the intensity of the scanning beam as it moves across the screen.

The two types of DVI interfaces are Single Link and Dual Link. Following are the features and benefits of each:  Single Link - The Single Link interface is limited to a maximum pixel clock of 165 Hz. It uses four (4) twisted pairs of wires (one each of Red, Green, Blue and Clock). Maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz.  Dual Link - The Dual Link interface is most common for today’s modern LCD monitors. It provides three times as many pixels as the Single Link interface. And its maximum clock may exceed 165 Hz. Dual Link uses six (6) twisted pairs wires with two (2) each for Red, Green, and Blue, as well as a pair for Clock. Dual Link’s maximum resolution is 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. When you use the Dual Link Interface you can use a longer cable because of its higher bandwidth. Dual Link also provides HDCP support, which is required for Blu-Ray playback.

If your Computer supports DVI ports, but the Monitor does not, then a DVI to VGA adaptor is available at low cost to solve this.  Or inversely, if the Computer output is only VGA, and the Monitor supports DVI, adaptors are available for this as well.  For our selection of Monitor Adaptors click here »

Dual Monitor Technology
Few PC users have ever experienced the huge productivity boost that comes from using multiple monitors on the same PC.  Ironically, many of today's PC have the capability already installed, and Windows (since 2000) natively supports dual monitors.  Configuring dual monitors is so easy: just use the second video port (if there are two separate ports installed), or add a second video card or better yet, a video card that has dual DVI ports.  Then plug in your second monitor, change a couple of simple Windows settings, and you have double the Windows Desktop.  This lets you have your spreadsheet and email visible at the same time, or PowerPoint and Photoshop.  The combinations are endless.  And since most of the overhead is handled by the video card, there is little significant impact (if any) on system performance.  Dual Monitors is one of the simplest, yet most amazing productivity boosters you can add to your PC!  Optionally, you can use a dual monitor stand and recover your workspace in the process!

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Advanced PC Build-It-Yourself Guide
Not too long ago one had to be eligible for the Genius IQ Club (Mensa) in order to build a computer. That is no longer the case. Today’s computer manufacturers have made it much easier for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer to create a great system.
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PCI Express - Delivering Dramatically Improved Graphics
Doubling the bandwidth of the AGP 8X graphics bus, the new PCI Express represents the most profound change to desktop architecture in nearly a decade. PCI Express replaces AGP, allowing much larger amounts of data to move between the graphics card and the CPU, and will soon replace PCI expansion slots as well. The PCI standard allows for a 32-bit bus with a maximum throughput of 133MB/s. By contrast, PCI Express will run at 2.5GHz. PCI Express is a two-way serial connection that carries data in packets along two pairs of point-to-point data lines, compared to the single parallel data bus of traditional PCI. Gamers will benefit from an incredible upgrade in video quality with PCI Express, because it will allow for more powerful video cards, inspiring developers to create more realistic environments that will make games come alive with astonishingly lifelike colors and images. Video enthusiasts will also benefit because PCI Express will accommodate higher-quality video throughput (amount of data you can send per second). As network television moves over to HDTV broadcasts, PCI Express positions the PC platform for integration into the living room, while also allowing for HD video editing and other bandwidth-intensive tasks. PCI Express is compatible with existing PCI drivers and software operating systems and is designed to co-exist with current PCI hardware.

What is SLI Technology?
NVIDIA® SLI™ technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows you to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system with an NVIDIA nForce® SLI media and communications processor (MCP).

How Does SLI Technology Work?
Using proprietary software algorithms and dedicated scalability logic in each NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) and MCP, NVIDIA SLI technology delivers up to twice the performance of a single graphics solution.

SLI GPU Graphics Cards
NVIDIA SLI GPUs deliver powerful, elegant and super-rich graphics for games and other graphics-intensive applications. Combining two NVIDIA SLI-Ready certified graphics cards (with the same GPU) in a single system with an nForce SLI MCP results in up to double the graphics performance.  NVIDIA SLI-Ready GPUs feature dedicated, built-in SLI hardware logic and take advantage of the additional bandwidth of the PCI Express bus architecture. Connected by the SLI connector (which ships with all SLI-Ready motherboards), each GPU has a maximized connection pathway, and can leverage the second card for reaching top-speed performances. SLI Technology can scale both geometry and fill rate performance for multiple GPUs and output in both digital and analog formats for the highest image quality.

CLICK HERE FOR OUR SLI READY VIDEO CARDS »

Video Card Designs
Today's high performance video cards enable amazing graphics, and frequently come emblazoned with high-impact graphics, or in brilliant colors.  These help to enhance the appeal of the card.  However, from time to time, manufacturers do change these designs and colors, but this has no effect on the features, specifications, or performance of the specific video card model, and will usually retain the same manufacturer's model and part number.  The images displayed for a video card are based upon the sample provided by the manufacturer, and the specific visual design you receive may vary.  So remember, while the card may look cool, it's the specs that matter!


Will Your Motherboard Support the Video Card You're Purchasing? Here's the Answer...

Before you buy - make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.

Close-Up: PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (PCI Express)

Check your motherboard and make sure you are purchasing the correct cardbus type.

There are 3 types of cardbus slots currently available: PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 is compatible with PCIe slot)

PCI - The most widely used I/O bus, it provides a shared data path between the CPU and peripheral controllers, such as network, display, SCSI and RAID cards. Though limited in terms of performance, they are considered the best value when you upgrade your video capabilities on a PC. The PCI interface can be found and used in nearly any motherboard.
Click here to view our selection of PCI Cards

AGP - The AGP slot is next in line of higher graphic performance. It was designed especially for the throughput demands of 3-D graphics. It offers up to 8x improvement over a PCI card, is 32 bits wide and runs at 66 MHz. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. The motherboard must be equipped with an AGP bus slot for an AGP card to be compatible.(AGP 1x provided a data transfer rate of 264 Mbytes/sec. AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1 Gbyte/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec.)
Click here to view our selection of AGP Cards

PCI Express - PCI Express is the newest technology that is superior to both PCI and AGP, in terms of graphic performance. It offers performance as much as 4x faster than the fastest AGP 8X slot. PCI Express connections can support fast data transfer rates, which can be used to connect high-speed devices such as high-end video cards. The slots come in different variations and speeds, such as x1, x4, x8, and x16. Presently, most high-end motherboards meant for design, video production, or gaming come with PCI express slots. To use a PCI Express card, your computer must have at least one available PCI Express slot.
Click here to view our selection of PCI Express Cards

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What's In The Box

  • BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 Video Card
  • Drivers CD
  • HDTV Breakout Pod
  • Y-Cable Power Connector
  • (2) Two DVI to VGA Adapters

Contents of package may vary from those pictured and stated here, due to changes in manufacturer's specifications or merchandising. Please check the product information carefully, items not included may no longer be required.
Manufactured by: BFG Technologies
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Mfg Part No: BFGE88512GTOC2E
UPC No: 876758001787
Box Size: ( Length: 10, Width: 8, Depth: 3 )
Shipping Weight: 1.2000 pound(s)
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