A differant AGP BFG 6600GT OC?

[Wolfshanze]

Anyone confirm or deny this?

I have an AGP BFG 6600GT OC, but it looks nothing like the AGP one reviewed in this article:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzE2

Mine has a "traditional NVidia-looking" cooler on it (though it is copper) with no LEDs... the one in this article is an odd round/circular heat sink with LEDs.

I didn't know BFG was into changing cards around after release? Anyone have the same as me, or the same as the review?

 

[Reiniku]

the 6600gt on their website has the same one as the one on the review. it's possible they did the same thing as xfx, in which they replaced the cooler because the earlier one was inefficient. that one also had a nvidia style cooler at first, but was changed and dropped the temp a few C

oh and just to add from the 6600gt page: "Cooling solution subject to change"

 

[MDE]

They used the reference Nvidia heatsink on their first 6800GTs then switched to their copper dual fan LED hairdryer.

 

[Wolfshanze]

Well this is what I have... as you can see, it's considerably differant then the one in the review.

I don't think the one I have is loud or inefficient... my card idles around 42c. Of course I don't have any fancy blue LEDs on my card though (not that it matters, can't see inside my case anyways.)

I just noticed the "new" one in the review seems to be dual-DVI, while the "old" 6600GT I have is VGA/DVI... not that it matters to me, but they seem to have changed more then just the heat sink... why such a major redesign?

 

[Fenuxx]

I had the same "problem" (not exactly a problem, but...) with my BFG GeForce FX 5700 Ultra card. The NVIDIA standard\reference heatsink was one style, and some of that model cards had the reference cooling. The one I received was one that resembled one of those old GF4 style coolers, with seperate memory heatsinks installed, so this seems to be something that BFG is really "into".

 

[McArra]

I think yours look way better

 

[Kriz]

One is AGP, one is PCI Express. The two different types of cards have two different types of heatsinks.

 

[Wolfshanze]

One is AGP, one is PCI Express. The two different types of cards have two different types of heatsinks.

You obviously didn't look at the pictures then... BFG has redesigned the AGP card. This is very clear in the pictures... last time I checked the PCI-E doesn't have a molex connector either.

The heatsink on the AGP card has changed (if not both models). It has also apparently switched from AGP/DVI to DVI/DVI.

I'm not sure which card "looks" better, but I thought it odd BFG has apparently completely redesigned the AGP card (if not both). Seems strange, and it makes one wonder if there was something wrong with the old card (which I have).