BFG now gone completely

Spear

A while back BFG pulled out of the graphics card market, but continued to sell their PSU line. Even that's ended now, and the entire company is being liquidated. They're refusing to honour warranties and RMA's now as well as a result.

This HardOCP thread has an image of the letter they're sending to customers.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1539921

Seems this all arose from nVidia refusing to allocate them stock of Fermi based cards.

Chuck Finlay

Never had a BFG, but, damn, this sucks. I heard about a brand last year, I actually think it was BFG, which was in negotiations with another manufacturer to take over their warranty. Looks like it didn't work out well

jak/mar

Would this mean that some cards will be sold cheaper since BFG has gone into liquidation and there is no warranty on the cards?

Monotype

I heard that they were folding up their PSUs a while back. It was one of those companies you see people raving how great they were but I almost never saw a single product in Europe.
nVidia is going to have to get some new reputable partners (with XFX focusing more on ATI cards these days).

PogMoThoin

Didn't well known Psu reviewer Johnny Guru work for them?

Solitaire

Yup. And to answer the above questions: AFAIK they pulled their non-core products first, then their PSUs out of Europe, then their GFX worldwide, then their PSUs from the rest of the world. And they've had no stock for a while now, which is part of the reason they weren't able to do anything about their RMAs apart from stare at them for a fair while before even announcing liquidation.

This is, of course, hugely negative for the industry. Now the illusion of OEMs dominance over their board partners (nonsense of course - one goes, the other is mutually dead) will increase we'll see more butt-****ery across the sector leading to slowdown as everyone starts hedging their bets :mad:

PogMoThoin

BFG Wanted To Produce ATI Radeon Cards

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=982

Overheal

Interesting....

I'm just shooting blind but why did Nvidia not allot any chips to BFG? Did Nvidia somehow get inside information that the company was thinking about making a move into ATI cards? That wouldnt likely be illegal, unlike what Intel did with Dell - but it would be bad form. Still I could imagine that if Nvidia thought BFG was going to get in bed with ATI that it presented a conflict of interest; and that the quality of BFGs Fermi cards would have suffered as a result, putting more feathers on a tarred brand.

Solitaire

Actually I think nVidia had already denied them Fermi then AMD subsequently facekicked their head clean off. Funny how both discrete GPU manufacturers had told BFG to go **** themselves... I think there was a lot more to this one that went on behind very closed doors :eek:

Spear

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/09/01/pny_offering_rma_graphics_card_promotion_for_bfg_tech_customers/

PNY is now offering 25% discounts to BFG customers upgrading through them until October 31st, with a copy of Just Cause 2 for free as well.

PogMoThoin

Spear wrote: »

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/09/01/pny_offering_rma_graphics_card_promotion_for_bfg_tech_customers/

PNY is now offering 25% discounts to BFG customers upgrading through them until October 31st, with a copy of Just Cause 2 for free as well.

Good move :rolleyes:

Spear

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/09/03/bfg_tech_goes_way_diamond_best_data/

And now it seems the name will be back already for AMD based cards instead.