GeForce 7900 GTX cards are several inches longer than their GT brethren, and that tends to create clearance problems on some motherboards. We've yet to find a board that wouldn't accommodate the card, but often, the longer design and double-wide cooler blocks one or more Serial ATA ports. That's not a huge problem, but it's something to keep in mind.

Blame for the GeForce 7900 GTX's penchant for blocking motherboard Serial ATA ports lies with the card's massive double-wide cooler. The heatsink stretches nearly the entire length of the card, and with dozens of cooling fins, four heatpipes, and a massive 92 mm fan, it's truly something to behold. What's more, it's smarter than your average graphics cooler. Fan speeds are tied to the GPU temperature, so at idle in a reasonably cool system, the 7900 GTX is barely audible. Even under heavy load, the cooler seems to do an effective job of cooling the card without making too much noise.

The GeForce 7900 GTX's cooler takes advantage of its double-wide PCI back plate to exhaust warm air from around the GPU. The entire cooler is shrouded in plastic, which helps direct warm air from the system.

Next to the venting, you'll find a pair of DVI ports and a standard video output. Like the GeForce 7900 GT's video port, composite, S-Video, and component HD output are supported.

Support for multiple video output formats comes courtesy a video output dongle, which BFG bundles with the card alongside a pair of DVI-to-VGA adapters and a Molex power pass-through. The software bundle is identical to that of GeForce 7900 GT OC, but BFG also throws in an extra large T-shirt and a set of Teflon mouse feet to spice things up. I'm particularly impressed with the Teflon mouse feet, not because they're something incredibly new or innovative, but because they're a nice addition here. They've definitely extended the lifespan of my mouse, whose feet had been worn thin by hours of steady Excel navigation mixed with occasional, frantic forays into Battlefield 2. I'm not sure how long the Teflon pads will last, but there are 24 of them included in the box, so you're unlikely to run out anytime soon.

On the warranty front, the BFG GeForce 7900 GTX OC is covered by the same lifetime warranty as the company's other graphics cards. You also get tech support through a toll-free telephone number that BFG keeps staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BFG even requests that users having problems call the tech support hotline rather than return a problematic card to the store from which it was purchased.