Sparkle GTX560 OC Edition

Sparkle GTX560 2GB OC Edition Review

" Today we are looking at a new GTX 560 from Sparkle, which features 2 GB of GDDR5 and is supplied in an overclocked state. At £170 inc vat is this the ideal graphics card upgrade for a new Christmas system build? The GTX560 has proven to be a popular card for Nvidia building upon the incredible success of the GTX460. The reference card has 7 SMs, 32 ROPS, 512kb of L2 cache, 336 SPs and 1GB of GDDR5 memory connected via a 256 bit memory bus. This Sparkle GTX560 card is equipped with double the memory (2GB GDDR5) with a higher core clock speed (822mhz). This is sure to enhance performance at higher resolutions when image quality is cranked. "

 SPARKLE GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB

SPARKLE GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB Review

" One month after the release of GeForce GTX 560 Ti, NVIDIA aimed mainstream users (sub-$200 market) with GeForce GTX 550 Ti. This is the market segment where most amount of money is made by the vendors as most amount of gamers fall in this segment. With all other facts, this market segment is also the most saturated segment with lots of options to choose from. That’s why conquering sub-$200 dollar market is a huge task. GeForce GTX 550 Ti, priced at $159, falls right in this segment. Most of the cards in this segment are from previous generation of graphics cards, both by NVIDIA and AMD, including GeForce GTS 450, Radeon HD 6790, GeForce GTX 460 768 MB, GeForce GTX 460 1 GB and Radeon HD 6850. Now, we have to see how GeForce GTX 550 Ti fairs against its opponents and predecessors. "

 Arctic Cooling Geforce Sparkle

Sparkle Calibre X580 Graphics Card Review

"  Sparkle has supplied us with a factory overclocked card at 810 MHz on the GPU core, 1620 MHz on the stream processors and 1008 MHz on the memory. The most obvious change from the stock reference cards is the addition of an Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus cooler. "