Test System Setup

Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz (333MHz x 9)

Cooling: Corsair Nautilus500 (Supplied by Corsair) with Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound (Supplied by Arctic Cooling)

Motherboard(s): GIGABYTE X48-DQ6 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)

Memory: 2 X 1GB Kingston PC6400 DDR-2 3-3-3-10 (KHX6400D2ULK2/2G) (Supplied by Kingston)

Hard Disk(s): Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA-2 7200.10 (Supplied by Seagate)

Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista SP1

Drivers: NVIDIA ForceWare 177.79 and Catalyst 8.9

With the BFG Tech GTX 260 OCX in hand, it's time to see how it performs. Today we'll be seeing how it compares to the recently tested Force3D HD 4870 Black Edition which also comes pre-overclocked.

3DMark06

Version and / or Patch Used: Build 110

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Product Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com/products/3dmark06/

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Off the bat we can see the two cards are performing quite close to each other. As we climb up in resolution, though, the BFG Tech GTX 260 OCX does begin to pull away.