BFG Exiting Graphics Card Market

thsoundman writes news that BFG appears to be giving up on the graphics card side of its business. The company's chairman said in a statement: "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. 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."

Honestly not surprised

[GhostGuy]

I've bought three BFG cards over the years. I figured "Oh cool, a pre-overclocked card. That'll save me a bit of effort". But all of them burned out in less than a week. I have excellent cooling, I had all of my settings correct, I didn't push the card any further than it was already clocked and temps really didn't seem that bad. But they all died on me. All of the cards I replaced them with lasted MUCH longer, and always gave me better performance after overclocking them myself. And honestly, they were just about on par with the BFG cards performance wise even BEFORE overclocking, at the same or lower price. Last card was the last chance for BFG in my eyes, I swore to never buy a card again. A few months later and they stop selling the cards? Coincidence? Probably, yeah. But still.

Re:BFG products fit a niche, and their absence is

[Anonymous Coward]

i have to post anonymously as i am (unfortunately) a GS employee, but yes.

to be fair, however, "optimization" is no longer a service we offer. but you're right- accessories is pretty much the only place money lies. well, and services. but only kind of, if you really know how much money the Geek Squad promise is costing the company on the bottom line through both employee incompetence (GS and sales floor alike).

i realize the prices you list are "jokes" but you exaggerate to the point of FUD. which is not to say we don't charge too much for a few of our services, but i dare you to try even a month of working for GS. i'm in a fairly computer literate city, but i kid you not when i say i've said "drag and drop" only to a genuinely confused stare and reply of "what do dragons have to do with this?" on more than one occasion. as much as i hate to say this as a very, very honest and reputable human being among tech folks, the lottery isn't the only stupidity tax.

Re:Oh well

[Anonymous Coward]

It took them 3 freaking tries to properly replace my bad gtx8800oc with a WORKING card (I bought when it was at peak price no less, I know, but I HAD to have it ans it WAS good while it worked) AND the third try took SIX FUCKING WEEKS.
I had to buy a gts 250 to replace the 8800 so I could use my computer for six weeks! (at least it was on sale)
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To top it off when I finally opened up the replacement 8800 the sticker for the fan spindle had come lose and was INSIDE the plastic cover and rubbing loudly on the fan blades.
It was a pain in the ass to take apart to get it out and probably voided the "lifetime warranty", I half suspect that it was done purposely, it was pretty well stuck in place.

Needless to say it's my personal opinion that Their tech support has turned completely to shit and I will never buy or recommend ANY of their products ever again.

So, Ya serves em right.

Re:Oh well

[BikeHelmet]

Kinda sad to see them go. They've always provided good warranty support.

eVGA is pretty much killing off all the competition by being totally awesome.

They encourage overclocking, their warranties aren't voided by cooling mods, and their prices are competitive (or often better than) XFX and BFG's. For some reason, eVGA cards usually overclock better, too.

eVGA wants their customers to use their hardware, hard. They encourage folding, among other things. Their rank [extremeoverclocking.com] proves it.

I like the company. My last card was either going to be an eVGA GTS 250 ($140 at the time), BFG GTS 250 ($135 after MIR), or Asus GTS 250($90 after MIR). I went for the Asus one, which was actually a mistake. The GDDR3 overheated at stock speeds, and had to be underclocked 40%... until I modded the cooling ($15), and then I could overclock by nearly 20%. This pales in comparison to my last eVGA card (a 7900GS), which attained 70% overclocks on the core and memory.