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Press Release

24 June 2008

 


SPARKLE Announced GeForce 9600 GSO Plus

Graphics Cards for Mainstream Gamers
 

 

 Taipei, Taiwan – June 24, 2008 - SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today introduced SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 768MB and SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB Graphics Cards for mainstream users who seek top-notch graphic weapons for latest DX10 games. These two SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus graphics cards are the overclocking versions of the GeForce 9600GSO on market – allowing gamers to enjoy 16% performance improvements in gaming experiences.

 Advanced Rendering Architecture
Based on NVIDIA’s next generation architecture, the SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards adopt 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.

Up to 16.5% Performance Upgrades
With the SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards, now mainstream gamers can expect core, shader, and memory clock performance boosts from 550MHz up to 600MHz, from 1375MHz up to 1674MHz, and from 1600MHz up to 1800MHz respectively. Such unprecedented performance upgrades help elevate the SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards' 3DMark Vantage score with astounding 16% improvement, compared with ordinary GeForce 9600 GSO graphics cards on market. Mainstream  gamers can now experience the
unmatched DX 10 3D performance in latest DX10 games,such as Gears of War, Crysis, Bioshock and so on.

Extreme Cooling with Exclusive designed fan system
The SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards feature dual heat-pipe fan cooling system using high technology. Compared with conventional fan cooling system, it 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.

Prepared for HD era
The SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards improve high-definition video playback on everyday PCs by leveraging NVIDIA PureVideoŽ HD technology to deliver high-quality playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray movies. The new programmable video-processing engine takes on all of the high-definition H.264 video decoding, freeing the CPU to perform other tasks, while significantly reducing power consumption, heat, and noise. Spectacular picture clarity and vibrant color is achieved with advanced video processing technology. The SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards also support dual-stream decode accelerations, which lower the average CPU usage to below 8% when using picture in picture feature.

"With overclocking out of box, the SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards  deliver tremendous graphics processing power  for the most demanding DX 10 games. Now mainstream gamers have much more powerful weapon for handling DX10 games, such as Gears of War, Crysis, Bioshock and so on."Said Allen Wu, sales manager of SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd. "The SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GSO Plus 384MB/768MB Graphics Cards shows astonishing performance boosts  compared to their predecessors."




 

Specification

Model Number

SF-PX96GSO384D3-HP Plus/SF-PX96GSO384D3-HM Plus

SF-PX96GSO768D3-HP Plus/SF-PX96GSO768D3-HM Plus

Graphics Processing Unit

GeForce 9600 GSO

Core Clock

600MHz

Memory Clock

1800MHz

Memory Type

384MB768MB GDDR3

Memory Interface

192-bit

Stream Processors

96

Stream Processors Clock 1674MHz

Bus Type

PCI-Express 2.0

RAMDAC

400 MHz

Outputs

Dual DVI-I+HDTV

HDTV

Resolution up to 1920 X 1080i

HDCP Yes

HDMI

Yes(Via Adapter-HM series)

 

About SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd.
SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd, established in 1982, is a high-end VGA card manufacturer and supplier to mainly provide NVIDIA series VGA card. With its strong R&D ability and investment in both hardware and software, Sparkle aims to provide the most price-competitive products while with best-in-class quality and service. Not only launch partner, Sparkle is also one of the certificated vendors of NVIDIA. Currently, SPARKLE products sell in more than 80 countries and on the web at www.sparkle.com.tw