A couple weeks ago we saw the best single graphics card on the market released by AMD. Today we’re going to have a look at an NVIDIA partner card housing the best GPU...More

From looks to specs to pricing, Sparkle’s Calibre X560 is the most extreme card in our collection. Sparkle utilizes the reference PCB and then strips off the cooling,...More

With all of the new products being introduced into NVIDIA’s lineup, the prices of many 400-series cards have been falling with meteoric speed. As a result, the GTS 450 has found itself playing second fiddle...More

Another company that knows how much this editor loves short product names, Sparkle Computer’s Calibre X560 is the highest-frequency card in today’s lineup. High frequencies require extra cooling, and Sparkle went full-force with its choice of Arctic Cooling’s Twin Turbo Pro twin-fan, four-heat pipe design....More

Sparkle’s very proud of its take on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 580, and rightfully so. The GeForce GTX580 Calibre is one of the most massive graphics cards we’ve ever had our hands on....More

I'm going to be honest. When I heard I was getting a Sparkle power supply to review, I immediately began to do some research on sparkly things. I dumped a package of glitter all over my desk...More

Their standard Graphics card lines which follow NVIDIA’s naming rule and then their Calibre performance lines which has more upgraded cooling as well as better clock setting for the GPU....More

Hi Everyone, today we are taking a look at the GTS 450 from the guys at Sparkle Computer Corp. Now for those who don’t know Sparkle has been around since 1982 in Taiwan,...More

Today we have another GeForce GTS 450 video card on the test bench. As we said in our previous GeForce GTS 450 video card review the GTS 450 is NVIDIA’s lowest end DirectX 11 card...More

When it comes to power the meme is “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely” but when it comes to the computer world the reverse is true, poor power corrupts absolutely....More

With the release of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 a couple of weeks ago the GTX 480 is no longer the top of the line card offered from NVIDIA, but there are still quite a few different GTX 480’s...More

We've recently seen the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 to be a formidable card, providing excellent performance and value in the $200 segment. But for gamers on a more modest budget, Nvidia has...More

Power supply efficiency, if you haven’t noticed, is the only interesting issue in power supplies today. As recently as a few years ago, the only things noticed by most enthusiasts were brand...More

Sparkle Computer has been busy recently, launching a serious assault on Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, and XFX with gamer focused video cards, and now power supplies....More

We've seen a recent rise in popularity of dual GPUs, Quad CPUs, even hex-core CPUs from both camps. While manufacturers are working on power efficiency for their products,the general trend has been higher energy consumption...More

Sparkle is mainly known for their video cards, and as we have seen, they tend to deliver. Power supplies might seem to be an odd place to branch off into at first, but it makes sense given...More

Not long ago our look at a Sparkle 1250W power supply, we were pleasantly surprised, as it went beyond our expectations for a first "kick at the preverbal cat" from a company typically known for graphics cards...More

Although we have reviewed countless ATI cards recently, we weren’t deaf to the recent release of NVidia’s GTX460. With people calling it the best mid-range gaming card on the market,...More

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"Fermi For The Masses"- A GeForce GTX460 Smorgasbord
This article was almost a GeForce GTX465 roundup. In it, we would have...More

After the launch of the GF100 that's found on the GeForce GTX 480, 470, and 465 cards, it became apparent that some changes were necessary in order to not only streamline the architecture but also improve upon some of...More

We've seen a recent rise in popularity of dual GPUs, Quad CPUs, even hex-core CPUs from both camps. While manufacturers are working on power efficiency for their products, the general trend has been higher energy...More

Sparkle is name that most of us will immediately recognize, especially in the context of power supplies. We however are not talking about that Sparkle; not SPI. The Sparkle that we are talking about today is one originally from...More

If you are looking to build a gaming PC chances are you have been reading review after review to find the best quality parts for the best price. Although the GTX 480’s and the 5970’s of the...More

With home media computers finding their way into many people’s living rooms a need for high-powered hardware in smaller form factors is on the rise. Many early adopters of Home Theater PCs or HTPCs simply installed tower systems near their high...More

Direct X 11 has been bitter sweet since its launch. The sweet: beautiful graphics, tessellation, dynamic lighting, triangles out the wazoo. The bitter: the battle rages on between Nvidia and ATI. Both companies have...More

Of all the things you would find in a PC, the video system is one that has changed the most. From a simple chip on the motherboard that spat text onto the screen, the video subsystem has grown and evolved into something ...More

It is a great time to be a gamer. Direct X 11 finally came to bless us with tessellations and dynamic lighty goodness. There is a down side too all this...More

Today I have Sparkle’s offering of the next in Nvidia’s line of Fermi-based cards, the GTX465. Price wise the GTX 465 lines up somewhere between the HD 5830....More

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You only get one chance to make a first impression. Sparkle doesn't have the name recognition of...More

The Sparkle GTS 250 LP is a fairly unique product that seems to be targeted to fit a particular niche in the market. It is by far the most powerful graphics card performance-wise that...More

Of the 2,195 power supplies currently listed on the 80 plus website, only 186 of them are certified 80+ gold. That means just over 11% of the power supplies tested meet or beat their highest standard. Although not listed on the 80+ website yet...More

When I first received the Sparkle Gold Class 1250W power supply for review, I mistakenly thought I was looking at a product made by Sparkle Power Inc., aka Fortron Source Power or FSP Group. They are another company dedicated to producing quality power...More

Taiwan-based Sparkle Computer Corporation has been around since 1982, most notably producing high quality graphics cards using the PCI interface, in addition to modern PCI-Express cards....More

Electricity is the life juice of every computer system. Without it, there is nothing. Today we have the grand daddy of all power supplies. A whopping 1250 watt behemoth of electron flowing force. This is not your mom and pop’s PSU...More

The power supply might be considered the heart of your computer, and like any heart it needs to be strong and powerful enough to keep up with what the rest of the body of system needs to do....More

Today we have the special privilege to review a brand new 1000W PSU from Sparkle Computer Corp. (Model GW-EPS1000DA). It is just now being released, and it is very impressive. More info, testing, pictures, and thoughts after the jump!....More

When most enthusiasts think of buying a video card, it is usually a very powerful gaming card capable of playing demanding games like the Company of Heroes series,....More

LanOC will be one of the few national review sites to be the first to check out Sparkle's new power supply unit line, the Gold Class Series, with ratings of 1000-1250W....More

The nVidia geForce GTX 260 was originally released in June 2008, nearly 1.5 years ago. At that time, it and its big brother, the GTX 280, were the most powerful single GPU gaming...More

Most video card manufactures stick to the reference design’s from Nvidia and ATI. Sparkle and international graphics card manufacture that has been pushing into the US recently has a product line called Calibre...More

The Geforce 200 series is Nvidia's 10th Generation GPU, which is the continuation of the previous 9 series GPU...More
 

The Sparkle Calibre GTX260 is a card that truly surprised me in its performance, I honestly thought my 4870 with more ram would outperform the GTX260 with less ram...More
 

There has never been a better time to buy a video card because the market right now is massively competitive. Those of you who will have read our recent 4890 roundup will...More
 

Although it was introduced nearly a year ago, videocards based on nVidia's 'GT200' GPU architecture are still somewhat rare. There are mid-range parts like the nVidia Geforce GTS 250...More

Nvidia’s current range of mainstream and high end products (GTX 260/275/285/295) first began hitting the market in September of last year with the release of the GTX 260 with 216 unified shaders...More

Sparkle is a new face here at Overclockers Online though as a company they are anything but a newcomer. Established in 1982, Sparkle is a company focused on one product; video cards...More

If you've followed the video card industry for any length of time, you're undoubtedly familiar with vendors such as Asus, Gigabyte, or MSI. The GeForce GTX 275 card we're reviewing today is from a manufacturer...More

Despite hardly being a massive player on the North American computer circuit, Sparkle has managed to spread their affairs out over 5 continents in some 80 countries in their last 27 years of existence...More

After testing this card for quite a while we found it to be both stable and cool running.  Heat is ultimately the enemy of all electronics and not just CPU’s...More

It seems that everywhere we look these days someone is trying to save a few dollars when it comes to upgrading or building a new system. Over the past 6 months both Nvidia and ATI have released plenty of cards... More

Today we are going to be taking a look at the Calibre P980, from Sparkle. At the heart of this video card is the veteran G92 GPU, originally appearing in October of 2007, powering the 8800 GT... More

When looking for video cards, users cannot always afford top-tier versions. Especially in times of economic difficulties, companies offer varieties of mid-range solutions that are often coupled with tweaks and... More

Sparkle is a Taiwanese video card manufacturer that  offers NVIDIA GPU's exclusively.  They offer NVIDIA's full range of video cards, from the GeForce FX 5200 all the way to the GeForce GTX 285...More

nVidia has received a lot of flak for their newest GPU, the GeForce GTS 250. The name would seem to indicate a slightly cut-down version of the GTX 260, but it is a simple renaming of the 9800 GTX+...More

I'm a news junkie. Can't get enough of it. Though, I will admit that I have about reached overload stage hearing the apocalyptic speech coming from the talking heads about the current economic crisis... More