A review of BFG's ThermoIntelligence technology.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 02:34:27 Fri, August 17, 2007

[H]ard|OCP has posted a short and sweet review of BFG's ThermoIntelligence cooling technology. ThermoIntelligence is BFG's attempt to improve on Nvidia's stock cooling designs. Did they succeed? You'll have to read the article to find out.

There are two BFG graphics cards availbale right now that use ThermoIntelligence. They are the GeForce 8600 GTS OC (BFGE86256GTSOCFE) and the GeForce 8600 GTS OC2 (BFGE86256GTSOC2FE). The OC2 model is currently available at Newegg for $249.99 which is $30 more than the stock cooled (yet still overclocked) BFG 8600 GTS.

ThermoIntelligence logo.

10 Comments

Friday, August 17, 2007 9:43:47 PM

anonymous
guest

insert yawn

Friday, August 17, 2007 10:08:43 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

6 degrees difference while being idle and 11 degrees difference while under full load . Not bad . Too bad they couldn't test SLI temperature differences .

Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:24:33 AM

So you pay 30$ for a 5% drop in temps, while you could use that 30$ and buy a VF900 and see a 30% drop.
This sucks almost as much as BFG's PSUs

Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:55:04 AM

anonymousD
n00b

oook..so its a better stock cooler. arent there better 3rd party ones ? better as in better then the ti ones we see on there :)

Monday, August 20, 2007 10:05:32 PM

Dingo Dangi
guest

Nice...I wish someone would do something like this for ATI cards.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:01:01 PM

anonymous
guest

^HIS and their ICEQ models my friend.

Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:37:00 PM

anonymousD
n00b

was gonna say whats the point but then again tehre are peopel who cannot/do not want/cant change teh cooler or even pop the side of teh puter so for thsoe folks..disregard teh poping part,those owuldnt buy a new video card lol

Friday, August 24, 2007 6:23:39 PM

matt.modica
guest

I still like my dual slot cooler MSI 8600GTS OC. Idles at 45 degrees and under load never goes above 60 degrees even when the ambient temp is like 25 - 30 degrees.

Friday, August 24, 2007 6:29:27 PM

anonymousD
n00b

anyhow, hows the weather in your parts? here we got t-storms :D

Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:01:37 AM

anonymous
guest

wow 250 bucks for a 8600gts....*shoots self*

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