Ah the BFG; it's something that has registered on the gamer's radar ever since it's inception back in the sprite filled days of gaming, some time around 1993. Though that weapon has seen many overhauls since; all the way up to being called the "Bio Force Gun 3.14" in the Doom movie; the mental image of the weapon is always the same. It's big, it's bad, and it can do a whole hell of a lot of damage.

It's probably no wonder then that BFG Technology, a United States based purveyor of a growing family of hardware, chose it as their namesake. BFG ended up registering on the collective enthusiast radar in the days of the G80 videocards; though users themselves had been attaching waterblocks to videocards for a number of years, often creating adorable little monstrosities, BFG became one of the first to tie a high end waterblock onto a videocard, offering the users premium overclocking and cooling without the cost of warrantee - considering the investment required for a single card, this didn't seem like such a bad idea.

It probably seems strange, though, that before their release of pre-overclocked and modified cards, BFG had a history spanning all the way back to 2001 - at that time being just another vendor attaching stickers to cards under the Asylum brand, that is - and with nowhere near the amount of recognition they hold today. Yet, no company can ever hope to simply rest on their laurels and become comfortable with the products they offer; no - to succeed a company must diversify. By that, I don't mean pushing more reference products, either. In the case of BFG, this diversification has come through the creation of a few lines of power supplies. While they are surely not the first company to begin selling power supplies under their name (a task usually reserved for memory companies, it would seem), they certainly have a few interesting products available today. On the bench this session is the flagship ES800 - a highly reflective black monster, with a few aesthetic concerns addressed, with it all leading towards a median of performance. Let's see just what we've got.

Features & Specifications:

Specifications

Right, now with that formality pulled from the way, it's good and time to take a look at the box, it's contents, and the beast which lurks within. Let's go!