What happened to BFG?

[da na]

Firstly, I am not talking about the BFG from DOOM. I am talking about the company that made GPUs and PhysX cards in the mid 2000's. 

Anyone know what happened to them? Their cards were quite popular, and they were one of the first companies to sell factory overclocked card profiles.

[WhitetailAni]

According to Wikipedia, they liquidated the company in 2010-2011.

PNY covered their RMA services (sort of), and the name was bought by Best Data.

More info here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_Technologies

[Digideath]

I remember them well. I used to have a bfg card. A bfg 9800 gtx+. That was a great wee card in its day.

[da na]

3 minutes ago, Digideath said:

I remember them well. I used to have a bfg card. A bfg 9800 gtx+. That was a great wee card in its day.

My BFG GTX 260 I used for about 5 years, sold it last year still working.

[Skiiwee29]

BFG went out of business after the 200 series cards.. I had a 260 from them I had to RMA that got fried in a tropical storm when I lived in Hawaii and they wouldn't honor it since they were folding at the time. This was in like 2007/2008? Ended up going down to the Best Buy in Honolulu and buying an XFX HD5770 that is still in use to this day in a media PC at my in-laws house. 

[CreativeName642]

I was kinda expecting to find something about how the next DOOM game wouldn't have the BFG or something. I'm glad they're keeping that.

[da na]

27 minutes ago, CreativeName642 said:

I was kinda hoping to find something about how the next DOOM game wouldn't have the BFG or something. I'm glad they're keeping that.

Yeah, lol

[DavidKalinowski]

Oh yea the old Tech companies.. in my day, I remember, BFG, Soyo, Abit, LanParty ATI, 3Dfx, Alpha heat sinks with their hexagon pins (instead of flat fins) and the fans pulled air up through them.. I remember 3rd party North bridge chip sets,(Nforce from Nvidia being better than AMDs own chipset for their CPU.) oh it was so much fun back then.

[da na]

3 minutes ago, DavidKalinowski said:

Oh yea the old Tech companies.. in my day, I remember, BFG, Soyo, Abit, LanParty ATI, 3Dfx, Alpha heat sinks with their hexagon pins (instead of flat fins) and the fans pulled air up through them.. I remember 3rd party North bridge chip sets,(Nforce from Nvidia being better than AMDs own chipset for their CPU.) oh it was so much fun back then.

yeah... Diamond was another big one... I think theyre still around but owned by some other company now.

[DavidKalinowski]

1 hour ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

yeah... Diamond was another big one... I think theyre still around but owned by some other company now.

I forgot about Diamond, there some of their cards laying around my high school computer class room.

[8tg]

AIBs of ages gone

nobody remembers Sparkle and they technically aren’t even dead yet 

[DavidKalinowski]

12 hours ago, 8tg said:

AIBs of ages gone

nobody remembers Sparkle and they technically aren’t even dead yet 

OMG I DO! Now that you mentioned them and I saw their logo, I do remember Sparkle

[da na]

7 minutes ago, DavidKalinowski said:

OMG I DO! Now that you mentioned them and I saw their logo, I do remember Sparkle

I never had a Sparkle card but I have seen one, friend had one a few years back. It was a purple-ish blue kinda color and was a GTX 2_0 (either a 260 or 280 can't remember)

[Sarra]

PNY is still around. I had a PNY 5200, and it was by far the worst card I have ever owned in my entire life.

 

The company I miss almost as much as BFG is Epox. They made great boards...