BFG's overclocked-in-the-box GeForce 6600 GT OC AGP is the only card in this comparison to advertise higher-than-stock core and memory clocks. The 25MHz core and memory clock boost probably won't deliver significantly better performance than the competition, but it should give the card enough of an edge to come out ahead of the pack.

Although it's factory overclocked, the BFG card uses NVIDIA's reference design for the GeForce 6600 GT AGP.

And, like the rest of the field, the card comes built on a turquoise blue board. The color actually goes well with the card's copper heat sinks, but the blue doesn't really match BFG's green, silver, and black colors. This is one case where a plain green board would have actually stood out.

The turquoise board color may not be unique, but it looks pretty good when paired with the card's copper heat sinks. The copper GPU cooler is particularly heavy, although it's a reasonably low-profile design that won't interfere with adjacent PCI cards.

There's more to the GPU cooler than just copper, though. It's also equipped with three blue LEDs that glow brightly when the card's powered up. If you have a case window, the blue glow looks pretty neat, but the effect is lost in a completely enclosed system.

BFG uses thermal compound to interface the card's GPU cooler with the graphics chip a TIM pad between the bridge chip and its passive heat sink. The TIM pad interfaces well with the bridge chip, but it looks like most of the GPU's thermal paste has been pushed to the outer edges of the graphics chip, which means there might not be quite enough between the GPU and the cooler's copper base.

To keep both heat sinks in even contact with their respective chips, BFG uses a pair of soft shims to balance the coolers. It's a nice little touch that helps keep the heat sinks from rocking from side to side on their relatively small contact points.

The BFG GeForce 6600 GT OC AGP is one of two dual DVI cards in this comparison, and I couldn't be happier. For a mid-range card, dual DVI isn't really a must-have feature, but it's a great bonus for multimonitor enthusiasts with LCD displays.

BFG bundles the card with a DVI-to-VGA adapter for each of the card's DVI outputs and also throws in a composite, component, and S-Video output dongle. An auxiliary power splitter's even included in the bundle, as is a copy of NVIDIA's NVDVD software and a game demo CD. Unlike Albatron's game demo CD, BFG's has some recent titles, including Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Painkiller. Still, the demos are freely available online, so the CD doesn't add much to the package.

The BFG card's real value is in its lifetime warranty and free 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week tech support. You may not end up using the GeForce 6600 GT OC AGP for a lifetime, or even more than a couple of years, but it's nice to know that the card is covered anyway.