bit-tech News: BFG Tech's GeForce GTX 260 OCX Maxcore

news · September 25, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published a review of *BFG Tech's GeForce GTX 260 OCX

Maxcore*. If you could post a link on your site that would be very much

appreciated.

*Link:*

*Picture:*

*Quote:

*/It's unfortunate then that the GTX 260 OCX Maxcore has been priced out

of contention, because in actual fact there's not a lot wrong with it.

It delivers more performance than the standard GTX 260 and it's not all

that far off a GTX 280 in many scenarios. The only situations where it

isn't is when you really start to tax that memory bus---either with high

resolutions in graphic-intensive games, or with high levels of

anti-aliasing---when the new GTX 260 starts to show a bit of a weakness.

The biggest weakness for the new GTX 260 though is its name -- if not

for the board partners then definitely for the all-important consumer. I

hate to have to come back to this, but it wasn't until I started

searching around retailers that I realised that BFG Tech currently has

no less than seven different GeForce GTX 260 models. That makes for a

bit of spaghetti not only for BFG, but also for the consumer -- I mean,

which GTX 260 should I, the consumer, buy when there are seven to choose

from?

This isn't just limited to BFG Tech -- it's also the case with just

about every Nvidia board partner that's going to introduce the GTX 270

new GTX 260. What this means is that consumers are going to have to be

much more educated and vigilant when it comes to choosing what GTX 260

to buy because not only will clock speeds change between boards, but

also stream processor counts as well./

*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

Recommended Posts