BFG GeForce 9800 GTX H2OC Watercooled Review

Some like it hot…and for those who don’t, BFG has paired up an overclocked GeForce 9800 GTX with its H2OC ThermoIntelligence water-cooling solution:

BFG is one of the few out there in the graphics arena to actually offer a water-cooled product based on a higher specced mid-range product. Typically the H2OC products are only to be found in high-end segment. So that’s very commendable as R&D and Quality control is a very expensive process here. In the end though, the creepy thing is that this product is competing dead on with the Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 9800 GTX+ at a price significantly higher. Now since the 9800 GTX cards dropped in price significantly, it had an adverse side-effect on this one as well. It dropped from 439 USD towards roughly 349 USD in just a week time. Though still a lot, that does sound a lot better doesn’t it ?

So my message here is .. though everybody focuses purely on every little fps they can squeeze out of their graphics card, no you do not buy that big chuck of copper for just gaming performance. It’s more about the cooling itself, the x-factor, bragging rights, building something really nice.

Guru3D