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SPARKLE Introduces Passive 1GB 8800 GT

Jimmy 2004

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SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card, the World's first graphic cards based on NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT GPU with 1GB video memory and passive cooling solution, The SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card will bring Ultra HD gaming experience to high-end gamers.



Based on NVIDIA's next generation GeForce 8800 GT architecture, the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card adopts innovative unified architecture, dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to times the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs. Built upon technologies such as NVIDIA Lumenex Engine, providing support for DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA Quantum Effects technology for physics computation and GigaThread Technology for extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.

Specifically developed to answer enthusiast gamers' demand for Ultra HD high-performing graphics, the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card is not only powered by most advanced 65nm GeForce 8800 series GPU from NVIDIA, but also combined with formidable R&D strength from SPARKLE, which brings inconceivable 1GB GDDR3 video memory on independent developed solution. Now the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card can provide unbelievable video memory bandwidth for latest DirectX 10 games such as Crysis and so on, to reveal gorgeous gaming texture at 1920x1200 Ultra HD resolution with fluent gaming speed.

The SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card possesses 600MHz core speed, 112 stream processors with 1500MHz shader clock and 1GB 1800MHz 256-bit GDDR3 video memory. GeForce 8800 series rendering architecture, DirectX 10 shader model 4.0 support, Ultra High speed stream processors and super capacity 1GB video memory, all these luxuriant features endow the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card with brutal 3D horsepower, to incisively and vividly present most cinematic gaming scenes to the gamers. In addition to all these incredible features, the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card is designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus standard and are backwards compatible with the original PCI Express standard.

65nm process lets SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 graphics card to bring less heat volatilization than 90nm and 80nm products on market. Furthermore, SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 graphics card is is equipped with heat-pipe-based passive cooling system using high technology. Compared with conventional HSF, this noiseless passive cooling solution features higher throughput thanks to high efficiency heat-pipe optimized for mass heat volatilization. It has high performance thermal compound ensures optimal thermal dissipation even after years of use.

The SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card also marries the biggest video memory with the best-in-HD. They leverage NVIDIA's revolutionary second-generation video processing engine to deliver high-quality playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray movies on high-end PCs. The new programmable video processing engine takes on all of the high definition H.264 video decoding, freeing the CPU to perform other tasks and significantly reducing power consumption, heat, and noise.

"With powerful 65nm GeForce 8800 series GPU, the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card offers a hyper-reactive, intensely robust gaming experience for the latest next-generation DirectX 10 games, such as Crysis, Gears of War, Bioshock, as well as full support for current DirectX 9 games." Said Precilla Wu, sales manager of SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd. " SPARKLE decided to raise the bar and deliver GeForce 8800 series graphics cards with 1GB video memory, giving our customers incredible confidence to handle gorgeous DX10 gaming scenes which have rigorous demand on video bandwidth. Also with high efficient heat pipe passive cooling system, the SPARKLE GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Cool-pipe 3 Graphics Card best choices for today's Ultra HD gaming."

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Wow! 1GB with a 8800GT....this would be an interesting comparison with the 1GB DDR4 variants of HD2900 cards. Cool n Quiet...NV style. One of the first non-reference designs with a 8800 GT. Finally NV reached the 1GB mark with its desktop DX 10 line.
 
thats going to be a nice card for in the winter nice and warm id love to have a 120 degrees celsius cooler here cause its -5 celsius
 
There 1GB 8800GT are popping up like mushrooms on rain. Won't be long when 1GB 8800GTS models follow (1-2months propably).
 
It will be to expensive for me... but still, it is a VERY, VERY nice card!! Of course I would add a fan of some sort to blow air across the card. :)
 
just wait for the 9000 series its out in what 2 month i heard but this is a good card for now but really youll only be disapointd in a few months if you get this
 
Cool for people who want silent... But seriously that has got to run pretty hot...
 
yeah your case should have decent cooling with that card.. the 9xxxx series wont be out till end of 2008. :( The feb release date was never official, that was fudzillas news. Nv says end of 2008.
 
not a bad idea, especially if u have a fanless psu (antec hybrid), it would be really quiet.

the only downside i see about this, is if u had a card like this in a case that has very poor cooling its capacitors would get too hot and likely leak out causing lots of problems.
 
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