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  • Sparkle Calibre X580 Graphics Card Review
    • 03-28-2011
    • Sparkle Calibre X580 Graphics Card Review
    • 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

  • A Pretty Shade Of Green GeForce GTX560Ti
    • 03-01-2011
    • A Pretty Shade Of Green GeForce GTX560Ti
    • 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

  • Sparkle ONE GTS 450 1GB OC Single Slot Review
    • 02-27-2011
    • Sparkle ONE GTS 450 1GB OC Single Slot Review
    • 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

  • Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti Cards, Compared
    • 02-22-2011
    • Five Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti Cards, Compared
    • 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

  • Nvidia Flagship Faceoff- GeForce GTX570 & 580 Open Fire
    • 02-01-2011
    • Nvidia Flagship Faceoff- GeForce GTX570 & 580 Open Fire
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 1250W
    • 12-13-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 1250W
    • 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

  • Sparkle GT450 Video Card Review
    • 12-09-2010
    • Sparkle GT450 Video Card Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Computer GTS450
    • 12-08-2010
    • Sparkle Computer GTS450
    • 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

  • Sparkle GeForce GTS450 1GB Video Card Review
    • 12-07-2010
    • Sparkle GeForce GTS450 1GB Video Card Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle 850W Gold Series Modular Power Supply Review
    • 11-24-2010
    • Sparkle 850W Gold Series Modular Power Supply Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Calibre X480 GeForce GTX480 Video Card Review
    • 11-22-2010
    • Sparkle Calibre X480 GeForce GTX480 Video Card Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GeForce GTS450
    • 11-14-2010
    • Sparkle GeForce GTS450
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 850W Power Supply Review
    • 10-31-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 850W Power Supply Review
    • 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 SCC-850AF Power Supply - Review - PC
    • 10-30-2010
    • Sparkle SCC-850AF Power Supply - Review - PC
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 750W PSU Review
    • 10-08-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 750W PSU Review
    • 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 Gold Class 850W PSU Review
    • 10-07-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 850W PSU Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 850W Power Supply Review
    • 09-16-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 850W Power Supply Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GTX460 768MB GDDR5 Review
    • 09-03-2010
    • Sparkle GTX460 768MB GDDR5 Review
    • 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

  • CPU magazine- Sparkle GTX 460 roundup
    • 08-26-2010
    • CPU magazine- Sparkle GTX 460 roundup
    • From Page.20-Page.25
      "Fermi For The Masses"- A GeForce GTX460 Smorgasbord
      This article was almost a GeForce GTX465 roundup. In it, we would have...More

  • Sparkle GeForce GTX460 review
    • 08-25-2010
    • Sparkle GeForce GTX460 review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class Series 1250W Power Supply
    • 08-20-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class Series 1250W Power Supply
    • 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 Gold Class 1000W Power Supply Review
    • 08-17-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 1000W Power Supply Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GTX465 Received Gold Award
    • 08-13-2010
    • Sparkle GTX465 Received Gold Award
    • 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

  • Sparkle GTS250 Graphics Card
    • 08-04-2010
    • Sparkle GTS250 Graphics Card
    • 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

  • Sparkle GeForce GTX480 Review
    • 08-02-2010
    • Sparkle GeForce GTX480 Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GeForce GTX465 Video Card Review
    • 07-27-2010
    • Sparkle GeForce GTX465 Video Card Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle 1250W Gold Class Power Supply Review
    • 07-16-2010
    • Sparkle 1250W Gold Class Power Supply Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GTX465 Video Cards Review
    • 07-14-2010
    • Sparkle GTX465 Video Cards Review
    • 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

  • CPU magazine awards 4.5 out of 5 on Gold Class 1000W
    • 06-03-2010
    • CPU magazine awards 4.5 out of 5 on Gold Class 1000W
    • From Page.19-Page.20
      You only get one chance to make a first impression. Sparkle doesn't have the name recognition of...More

  • Sparkle GTS 250 Green Low Profile Video Card
    • 05-12-2010
    • Sparkle GTS 250 Green Low Profile Video Card
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 1250W ATX Power Supply
    • 05-11-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 1250W ATX Power Supply
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 1250w Power Supply
    • 05-09-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 1250w Power Supply
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 1250W Modular Power Supply Review
    • 05-03-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 1250W Modular Power Supply Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle 1250 Watt Modular Power Supply
    • 05-03-2010
    • Sparkle 1250 Watt Modular Power Supply
    • 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

  • Sparkle Computer Corp 80Plus 1250 Watt ATX Power Supply GW-EPS1250DA Review
    • 04-28-2010
    • Sparkle Computer Corp 80Plus 1250 Watt ATX Power Supply GW-EPS1250DA Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Gold Class 80PLUS 1000W ATX Power Supply Review
    • 04-26-2010
    • Sparkle Gold Class 80PLUS 1000W ATX Power Supply Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GeForce 210 1GB Video Card Review
    • 04-13-2010
    • Sparkle GeForce 210 1GB Video Card Review
    • 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

  • Exclusive Preview of Sparkle Computer New PSU
    • 02-21-2010
    • Exclusive Preview of Sparkle Computer New PSU
    • 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

  • Sparkle GeForce GTX 260 Plus 1792MB Review
    • 11-02-2009
    • Sparkle GeForce GTX 260 Plus 1792MB Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Calibre X265 Review
    • 10-27-2009
    • Sparkle Calibre X265 Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GTX 275 VideoCard Review
    • 10-06-2009
    • Sparkle GTX 275 VideoCard Review
    • The Geforce 200 series is Nvidia's 10th Generation GPU, which is the continuation of the previous 9 series GPU...More
       

  • Sparkle GTX260 896MB VideoCard Review
    • 09-20-2009
    • Sparkle GTX260 896MB VideoCard Review
    • 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
       

  • Sparkle GTX285 2G Review
    • 08-28-2009
    • Sparkle GTX285 2G Review
    • 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
       

  • Sparkle GTX260 Core216 GeForce GTX260 VideoCard Review
    • 08-16-2009
    • Sparkle GTX260 Core216 GeForce GTX260 VideoCard Review
    • 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 GeForce Roundup August 09
    • 07-31-2009
    • Nvidia GeForce Roundup August 09
    • 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 9500GT Review
    • 07-16-2009
    • Sparkle 9500GT Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GeForce GTX275 VideoCard Review
    • 07-02-2009
    • Sparkle GeForce GTX275 VideoCard Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle GTS250 VideoCard Review
    • 05-30-2009
    • Sparkle GTS250 VideoCard Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Calibre 9800GTX+ Video Card
    • 05-15-2009
    • Sparkle Calibre 9800GTX+ Video Card
    • 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

  • Sparkle Calibre GeForce GTS 250 Roundup
    • 05-07-2009
    • Sparkle Calibre GeForce GTS 250 Roundup
    • 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

       

  • Sparkle Calibre P980 (9800GT) Review
    • 05-05-2009
    • Sparkle Calibre P980 (9800GT) Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Calibre P980X+ Review
    • 05-05-2009
    • Sparkle Calibre P980X+ Review
    • 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 GeForce 9800GT HDMI VideoCard Review
    • 04-06-2009
    • Sparkle GeForce 9800GT HDMI VideoCard Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Geforce GTX250 1G VideoCard Review
    • 03-30-2009
    • Sparkle Geforce GTX250 1G VideoCard Review
    • 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

  • Sparkle Calibre P980+ Review
    • 03-18-2009
    • Sparkle Calibre P980+ Review
    • 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