It’s no secret that the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS reference fansink was designed with one purpose in mind, to adequately cool the graphics card. It does what it’s meant to do, however to make the most of your graphics card, you need to have better cooling. Some companies offer different cooling solutions, however often times these so-called solutions are aging fansink designs from previous generations, gimmicks that modify the NVIDIA reference fansink or flashy-looking designs that are all show and no blow.

But why is better cooling your graphics card really that important? Well because heat is the bane of complex modern electronics and too much of it can result in your graphics card artifacting, locking up or even becoming permanently damaged over time. Better cooling protects your investment by keeping your graphics card healthy and running stable, including when overclocking is involved even from the factory.

Of course anyone can just say something’s cool, but the fact is the 8600 GTS ThermoIntelligence fansink maintains a 5C lower GPU temperature on average vs. the NVIDIA reference fansink with a single card setup. For power users running dual cards in an NVIDIA SLI configuration, the thermal performance gets even better with the primary card operating at up to 11C cooler. The best part is these enhanced cooling properties don't come at the cost of increased acoustic noise from the fan* or the loss of an additional add-in card slot.

It’s just simply more intelligent by design and only available from BFG Technologies.

*In an acoustically controlled environment with a background acoustic noise level of 19.2<20 dB(A), the NVIDIA reference fansink measured 39.9 dB(A) and the BFG ThermoIntelligence fansink measured 39.2 dB(A)