BFG 800W Power Supply Review

Exterior Impressions


This BFG 800W power supply is the same size as a standard ATX power supply so it should not have any problem fitting in any standard ATX case. BFG has added two 80mm fans; one to intake cool air and one to exhaust hot air out the back. If you look a little closer, you will not see an input voltage switch; this means that BFG has equipped this power supply with APFC.


While the finish on the exterior casing looks like a matte grey in these photos, it has much more depth than that. The grey paint has a high-gloss finish that gives it a pretty stunning look to it but at the same time this makes it an absolute magnet for fingerprints. So, if you don’t want your BFG power supply looking like a CSI crimes scene, have a cloth ready to buff it after installation.


Cables and Connectors

- Molex: 8 Connectors
o 2x 38” (3 connectors each)
o 1x 23” (2 connectors)

- SATA: 6 Connectors
o 2x 29” length (3 connectors each)

- PCI-E 6 Pin: 2 Connectors
o 2x 17” length

- 4-Pin Floppy: 2 Connectors
o 2x 44’’ length (at end of each Molex cable)

- 20+4 ATX Connector: 16 1/2” length

- 4+4 Pin CPU connector: 16 1/2” length


All of the cables on the BFG 800W power supply are wonderfully sleeved in form-fitting but easily-bent black sleeving. Unfortunately, this is where the fun stops with this particular power supply since every one of the cables is abysmally short. The PCI-E connectors refused to reach the bottom graphics card in the Gigabyte Aurora 750 case I installed it into.

To add a bit of insult to injury, there are only two PCI-E 6-pin connectors and not a single 8-pin PCI-E connector in sight. This is an 800W power supply and in this day and age people use these high wattage power supplies to power dual 8800GTX cards or something very close to that. Without using the Molex to 6-pin connectors included with the cards, there is no way to power dual 8800GTX or HD2900XT cards with the BFG 800W power supply.


I had to take a picture of the PCI-E connectors since they are finished in the oddest blue color. This may be a problem for you if you are dead-set about having everything in your case matching or complementary colors. On the other hand, if I am not mistaken this color will make these connectors highly UV-reactive.

Another small problem presents itself with the way the sleeving is finished up to the ends of the connectors. There seems to be a small covered zip-tie before each connector which makes it very hard to bend the connectors in the direction you may want them.