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Monday, May 10, 2010
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"Sparkle Computer Corp, the same company that has manufactured nVidia-based video cards for many years, is now branching into the power supply market and looking to make a big splash doing so. For review today we have one of their new Gold Class power supplies in the 1250W variety. The Gold Class gets its name in part due to the 80Plus Gold rating, reserved for those power supplies exceeding 90%+ efficiency. Couple that with six +12V rails rated for 20A each and you've got a 120A claimed peak load handling capability, that's a whopping 1440W!"
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"Today for review I've got a video card from Sparkle Computer Corp, it's an Nvidia based GT240 that has 512MB of ram built-in. With those specs I'm sure you can guess it's not really a card you'd want for gaming, but it has it's place nonetheless. It does feature a native HDMI port, along with both VGA and DVI ports on it, so no adapter needed for HDMI which is nice. The card is also rather inexpensive and virtually silent, it would make a good choice for an HTPC I'm sure. So read on... "
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
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?The largest use for mainstream video cards is to add some graphics ?oomph? to that off-the-shelf Dell, HP, Compaq, or whatever. With a CPU and integrated graphics designed to ?just get by?, the mainstream video card adds extra power and life to the compromised graphics of the ?store bought? rig. In the past I have reviewed several ATI mainstream cards, but I haven?t had the opportunity try an nVidia mainstream card. Today I will be looking at Sparkle?s brand new geForce mainstream card. Though the geForce 210 has been around for a while, Sparkle has just released this new model with a full gig of memory, to free up that system memory that is normally taken by the integrated graphics. Read on to check out the Sparkle GeForce 210 1GB video card."
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Friday, November 20, 2009
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?Today I will be looking at a GTX 260 by Sparkle, the GTX 260 Plus. This isn?t your typical GTX 260, as it sports 1792 megs of memory. I reviewed a couple of Radeon HD 4870 X2s that each had two gigs of memory, but they were actually two 4870s with 1GB of memory per GPU. This is a single GPU with not much less than two gigs for itself. Will this massive amount of graphics memory make a difference? Read on to see!"
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Friday, March 20, 2009
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Sparkle Computer Inc., has been around since 1982. There aren't a lot of current hardware companies that can boast of being around for over 25 years. And no, this Sparkle has nothing to do with Sparkle Power. Sparkle Computer builds a full line of geForce cards, and they aren't afraid to get away from reference designs. Today I will be looking at the Sparkle Calibre P980+, which is a factory overclocked 9800GTX+. Sparkle has added a very interesting GPU cooler to this card. Will the P980+ impress? Read on to see!
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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We've checked out ATI's Radeon
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Monday, May 5, 2008
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In this review, we are taking a look at the newest card from Nvidia. We are testing the Nvidia 9600GT from Sparkle. The card is called Sparkle SF-PX96GT512D3-HP, fitted with 512mb ram and based on Nvidias G94 core. The Sparkle SF-PX96GT512D3-HP is packed in a light blue box, with a big gothic S dominating the front. Behind this S there is a window.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
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In this test we are taking a look at yet another graphics card from Sparkle. We are reviewing one of Nvidias latest additions to their card range - the 9800GTX. The card Sparkle has provided is called Sparkle SF-PX98GTX512D3-HP, and it is going to be interesting to see if this new card will offer something new compared to the GeForce 8800 series from NVIDIA.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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The G92 based Geforce 8800GT was a very exciting product, unfortunately NVIDIA was short of supply and lower priced ATI HD3850 & HD3870 gained a lot of popularity this way. The higher-end market still remained untouched; to fill up this gap NVIDIA came up with a second wave of 8800GTS video cards. With the GT in mind, could we be dealing with yet another great NVIDIA product? We find out.
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
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If you have been waiting for NVIDIA to release a cheap, mid-range DirectX 10 graphics card, you need wait no longer. The new NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS offers not only the same unified shader technology and DirectX 10 support, it also comes with a spanking new video processor that can completely take over H.264 decoding.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
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One year ago NVIDIA released the Geforce 8 series and took the performance crown, today we test the latest additions to the family, the 8800 GT is priced lower than the 8800 GTS 320mb, yet sports higher clockspeeds and more video memory. A candidate for best price/performance card and worth a place in your Christmas shopping list? We find out!
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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The 8600GT series are good for gamers on a budget. It's certainly a lot more powerful than previous Nvidia gpu's at the same prices, but this time it also comes with DX10 support. The Calibre P860 wants to portray it's self as an exclusive item. I'm afraid I don't get that feeling when I first got the video card. There is pretty much no bundle at all. At least put a few games in the box just to make it seem more special than the standard 8600GT from Sparkle. Performance wise this video card is very fast right out of the box, the extra 265mb is also a nice feature. You are able to tweak it just a lil bit more over the already highly overclocked GPU and Ram. It's just too bad that they stuck such a loud fan on there. The add-on card is a nice feature, but pretty much only a gadget since I'm not looking at my card every now and then to see what the temperature is..... Overall, not a bad choice though. I loved it during the duration I was using it.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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In this test, we are going to have a look on a graphics card from Sparkle. We have recently evaluated an 8800 Ultra from Sparkle, which scored a high test score, mostly because of its custom cooling feature. The card for this test is an 8600GT with 512 DDR3 RAM. Sparkle Calibre 8600GT comes in a black box with a handle on top.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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Having trouble deciding on which entry-level GPU to pick up? Sparkle's Calibre series might make your decision easier with it's P850+. In addition to DX10 support and a unique LED-readout, it offers an additional 200MHz on the core and 320MHz on the memory over reference 8500GTs.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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If you have been waiting for NVIDIA to release a cheap, mid-range DirectX 10 graphics card, you need wait no longer. The new NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS offers not only the same unified shader technology and DirectX 10 support, it also comes with a spanking new video processor that can completely take over H.264 decoding. Today, we revisit our review of the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS. We redid all the benchmarks at higher resolutions with the latest NVIDIA driver, and added the new DirectX 10 Company Of Heroes benchmark to the list. This will give us a better gauge of its performance with larger monitors that are becoming particularly common as well as an examination of the GeForce 8600 GTS' DirectX 10 capabilities. Join us as we take a look at one of the first GeForce 8600 GTS cards to hit the market - the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS. Based entirely on the reference card, this card is representative of the other GeForce 8600 GTS cards in the market.
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