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Backed by BFG's famous Lifetime Warranty, the BFG NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260 H2OC™ MAXCORE™ 896GB graphics card featuring a BFG ThermoIntelligence® water cooling solution offers exceptional thermal performance in a single slot design. Co-developed by BFG and Danger Den™, the ThermoIntelligence® custom copper water block is totally silent and allows the GTX 260 GPU to be factory overclocked to the highest stable level delivering up to a 52ºC lower peak operating temperature than reference cooling solutions.

THERMOINTELLIGENCE FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Co-developed by BFG and water cooling industry leader and pioneer Danger Den

Single slot design frees up valuable space for other add-in cards

Reduces graphics card temperatures by up to 52ºC versus standard air cooling

Includes high quality, high-flow 3/8" and 1/2" fittings (barbs) to maximize water flow with captured o-rings to prevent leakage 

Designed to accommodate custom as well as 2-way and 3-way NVIDIA SLI configurations with included ½ micro fittings (barbs) and tubing

Hand-built by a trained BFG technician with Arctic Silver® thermal compound

Manufactured in the USA using pure copper

GAMING
NVIDIA SLI® technology and 896MB of dedicated graphics memory allow you to max out game settings and resolution (2560x1600). Out of the box overclocking provides a free boost to already blazing performance

NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology* brings your games to life with massively destructible environments and ultra-realistic physical interaction

2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture enables multiple, true-to-life characters to be rendered in complex, dynamic worlds

* PhysX drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration. Visit www.nvidia.com/PhysX for more details.

HD VIDEO
Unlock the power of 192 processing cores to tackle demanding system tasks such as viewing photos in 3D or transcoding video to a personal video player up to 7X faster than the CPU

PureVideo® HD technology provides the ultimate interactive Blu-ray DVD movie experience with full hardware acceleration of HD movies and picture-in-picture content


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2nd Generation NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
Second generation architecture delivers 50% more gaming performance over the first generation through 240 enhanced processing cores that provide incredible shading horsepower.ⁱ

NVIDIA PhysX™ Readyⁱⁱ
GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA PhysX technology,enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.

3-way NVIDIA SLI® Technologyⁱⁱⁱ
Industry leading 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing 3-way AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) for the worlds fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista with solid, state-of-the-art drivers.

Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Support
DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects for today's hottest games.

NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology ^iv
CUDA technology unlocks the power of the GPUs processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks - such as video transcoding - delivering up to 7x performance over traditional CPUs.

PCI Express® 2.0 Support
Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.

GigaThread™ Technology
Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.

NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine
Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy with ultra-fast frame rates.

16x Anti-aliasing Technology
Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.

128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting
Twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effectsnow with support for anti-aliasing.

OpenGL® 2.1 Optimizations and Support
Provides top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications.

Dual Dual-link DVI Support
Able to drive the industrys largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600 and with support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).^v

NVIDIA PureVideo® HD Technology^vi
The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.  

Discrete, Programmable Video Processor
NVIDIA PureVideo is a discrete programmable processing core in NVIDIA GPUs that provides superb picture quality and ultra-smooth movies with 100% offload of H.264 video decoding from the CPU and significantly reduced power consumption.
 
Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration
Supports picture-in-picture content for the ultimate interactive Blu-ray movie experience.

Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch
Dynamically provides post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies for spectacular picture clarity.

i The number of processor cores varies by model.  GeForce GTX 280 has 240 processor cores. GeForce GTX 260 has 192 processor cores.

ii GeForce GTX 280/260 GPUs ship with hardware support for NVIDIA PhysX technology. NVIDIA PhysX drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration. Refer to www.nvidia.com/PhysX for more information.

iii NVIDIA SLI certified versions of GeForce PCI Express GPUs only. A GeForce GTX 280 GPU must be paired with another GeForce GTX 280 GPU (graphics card manufacturer can be different). SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.

iv Requires application support for CUDA technology.

v Playback of HDCP protected content requires other HDCP-compatible components.

vi Feature requires supported video software.  Features may vary by product