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Tuesday, May 18th 2010

BFG Tech Announces Exit From Graphics Card Category, Continues On With PSUs and PCs

BFG Technologies today announced their exit from the graphics card category. The company will continue to sell their line of BFG Tech power supplies as well as their Deimos gaming notebooks and Phobos gaming systems.

"After eight years of providing innovative, high-quality graphics cards to the market, we regret to say that this category is no longer profitable for us, although we will continue to evaluate it going forward", said John Slevin, chairman of BFG Technologies. "We will continue to provide our award-winning power supplies and gaming systems, and are working on a few new products as well. I'd like to stress that we will continue to provide RMA support for our current graphics card warranty holders, as well as for all of our other products such as power supplies, PCs and notebooks."
BFG will continue to offer RMA, telephone and email support for qualified BFG Tech graphics card warranty holders, but will no longer be bringing new graphics card products to market.
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96 Comments on BFG Tech Announces Exit From Graphics Card Category, Continues On With PSUs and PCs

#26
TIGR
SNiiPE_DoGGOklahomaWolf is the guy who does all the reviewing of PSU's though
That's good ... "conflict of interest" comes to mind. I didn't even realize jonny was at BFG.
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#27
fochkoph
I'm guessing they'll be back for the next generation. Never personally owned a BFG card but have known others who have had nothing but great experiences with the company. Experiences that rival those of EVGA. Too bad they did pull a XFX and moved to ATi, their step-up program would be a nice addition to the red team.

I really do wonder how much they're losing if they continued to sell Fermi cards considering the last time I checked their custom PCs cost an astronomical amount of money and I would hardly consider BFG for power supplies.
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#28
KainXS
I liked bfg's cards and warranty, this sucks big big balls man T.T
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#29
SeanG
Im pissed!I just called them because I was waiting for a tradeup I was approved for a month ago and they just told me on the phone my tradeup was discontinued.:mad:
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#30
onepost
SeanGIm pissed!I just called them because I was waiting for a tradeup I was approved for a month ago and they just told me on the phone my tradeup was discontinued.:mad:
that sucks man - are they just sending your old card back?
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#31
Xiphos
I wonder how they will fulfill their lifetime warranty on their video cards.
xfx replaced failing gt200 cards with ati cards, whats going to happen with bfg?
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#32
SeanG
I was lucky,I never sent the old card in.I was waiting for the second email to do so.They did say thier honoring the warranties still tho.
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#33
Hockster
With XFX and BFG gone, and my life long refusal to ever give EVGA another penny, looks as if I'll never own an nVidia card again.
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#34
SeanG
The only thing im wondering with a lifetime warranty,What are they going to send me when I rma 2 years from now?
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#35
Champ
They need to get their name out more. I don't remember the last time I've heard a user here talk about BFG. I hear more about Zotac for example.
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#36
DrPepper
The Doctor is in the house
I've never seen a BFG card for sale in the UK.
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#37
DannibusX
DrPepperI've never seen a BFG card for sale in the UK.
That's a shame, because they are one of my favorite nVidia manufacturers. My back up PC has a BFG 8800GT and BFG 450W PSU. I like them both.

I really hope they release some ATI product in the future and aren't pulling out of the industry for good.
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#38
qubit
Overclocked quantum bit
HocksterWith XFX and BFG gone, and my life long refusal to ever give EVGA another penny, looks as if I'll never own an nVidia card again.
There's always Gigabyte with their quality Ultra Durable range, Zotac, PNY & others. No need to deny yourself an nvidia card just because BFG's gone.
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#39
CDdude55
Crazy 4 TPU!!!
That sucks.

Still have a BFG 8600 GTS running in an older system i built.:)
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#40
Hockster
SeanGThe only thing im wondering with a lifetime warranty,What are they going to send me when I rma 2 years from now?
You're covered.
www.hardocp.com/news/2010/05/18/bfgtech_exits_graphics
Of course our biggest concern is that our readers that have purchased BFG video cards are taken care of. Speaking this morning with then BFGTech CEO, Scott Herkelman, he assured me that BFG has taken measures to make sure full RMA and support will continue. Eight full time employees and the full group of tech support will remain in place as well as warehouse labor. That means continued 24/7 phone, email, and full RMA support for registered cards. As of today, BFG has a full reserve of cards and monies set aside to sure proper support occurs.
qubitThere's always Gigabyte with their quality Ultra Durable range, Zotac, PNY & others. No need to deny yourself an nvidia card just because BFG's gone.
I buy 99.9% of my stuff locally. But even in a city of around a million people no PC store carries those brands.
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#41
VisBits
10 Bucks say they are going to start selling ATI graphics cards, probably had to do this as a press release to keep from burning the bridge with Nvidia to badly. All these manufactures are under contracts with the providing companys afterall.
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#42
sLowEnd
ToTTenTranzAnother victim of Fermi..

Seriously, what was the point in discontinuing the 200 series?
They should have continued the production of these cards and lowered the prices.
That's not profitable.
GT200 is a large die.
ToTTenTranzBeing in the market at a loss is better than not being in the market at all (for a huge company like nVidia).
But would it be good for BFG? I'm quite certain it's not.
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#43
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Kind of bad news but at least their PSUs are pretty good mostly. They have gotten some great reviews from Maximum PC and CPU magazine. I like their PHOBOS gaming PC, but too bad they aren't using their own cards. Maybe they will go with XFX or something.
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#44
trt740
Besides who doesn't want a Big FXXXKIng gun in their computer and that won't happen anymore
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#45
Animalpak
outside the European market and now also graphics cards. would first close
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#46
lemode
FreedomEclipsethey shoulda done what XFX did & switched to doing ATi cards. Ive never had a BFG card. but my mate had a BFG 7600GT that overclocked pretty well. but i suppose they wanted to remain exclusive to Nvidia [Insert BJ's here] - I wish Hercules would make a comeback into the graphics market...... their 3D prophet cards were badass.

oh well...more room & profit for the remaining competitors I guess...the market is still saturated with so many big names in graphics. HiS, PoV, Palit, Sapphire, XFX, Powercolour, Gigabyte - list goes on....
my 260's were BFGs and my 250 was xfx.

i hate to see bfg leave the gpu market :mad:
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#47
Delta6326
Sad to see them leave i have never owned one but i always wanted one, but if anyone was wondering, yes they make decent psu's as W1zzard use's it in his reviews
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#48
Champ
Are Nvidias really that hard to sell compared to ATI? Not trying to start a war, but I also thought historically, Nvidia was better than ATI? When I was a young child, my older brother built gaming rigs and all he used was Nvidia. I'm 23 so this had to be nearly 10 years ago.
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#49
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
2002, ATI Radeon 9500, 9500 Pro, 9700, 9700 Pro- Superior to GF FX Products. Radeon 8500 was a Decent Product.
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#50
jonnyGURU
TIGRThat's good ... "conflict of interest" comes to mind. I didn't even realize jonny was at BFG.
One of the conditions of my working at BFG is that I quit writing reviews for my site. So Tony Day (Tazz) is now the admin and Jeremy Schrag (Wolf) writes the reviews.
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