SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today Introduced the Calibre P960 Graphics Card with exclusive adjustable Dual Fly Cooling System, providing exquisite craftwork and raw DX10 performance for mainstream gamers.

By Introducing the Calibre P960 Graphics Card, now SPARKLE can provide mainstream gamers with the incredible graphics horsepower to play popular games such as Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament 3 at high-definition resolutions such as 1900x1200 and above, with high-image-quality features enabled. Compared with reference designed GeForce 9600 GT Graphics Cards on market, the Calibre P960 Graphics Card is exquisitely made with polished components, such as high-quality MOS circuits, and high-quality low esr solid capacitors.

(As tested in SPARKLE test lab on system with following specs:
3DMark 2006, 1280x1024, 75Hz, 32bit,Intel QX9650 )

The Calibre P960 Graphics Card is overclocked out of box, it features 700MHz core speed, 1850MHz shader clock and 256-bit 512MB 2000MHz GDDR3 high-speed video memory, giving DirectX 10 gamers an extra boost in performance at no extra cost. So the Calibre P960 Graphics Card can get 12635 in 3DMark06 default test, 9.6% more than the 11527 score of reference designed GeForce 9600 GT Graphics Card

The Calibre P960 Graphics Card also offers new features for next generation data transportation standard, it is one of the world's first PCI Express 2.0 graphic cards, which can maximize the usage of 5GT/s bandwidth ( doubled than 2.5GT/s PCI Express 1.1 can provide) provided by PCI Express 2.0 standard, to be full ready for future games and applications which have rigorous requirements on bandwidth. The Calibre P960 Graphics Card is also compatible with present PCI Express 1.1 motherboards with maximal convenience.

The Calibre P960 Graphics Card features the second-generation PureVideo HD engine from NVIDIA. The NVIDIA PureVideo HD engine and the video processing unit inside the Calibre P960 Graphics Card deliver astounding Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality on a PC with 100% offload of H.264 video decoding, freeing the CPU to perform other tasks and significantly reducing power consumption, heat, and noise. Users can also buy DVI-HDMI converter as the optional accessory to enjoy the high-definition video experience brought by HDMI interface.

The ordinary GeForce 9600 GT Graphics Cards on market may have a daunting thermal performance puzzle due to the insufficient wind pressure and airflow from the reference cooling fans. Now with strong R&D teams, SPARKLE addresses the issue by specially introducing Dual Fly Cooling System for the Calibre P960 Graphics Card to replace NVIDIA reference cooling fans which only have ordinary cooling effect. This high-efficient Cooling System developed by SPARKLE itself consists of aluminum die-casting thermal base with copper core inside, three high-efficient heat pipes and dual cooling fans with 0.2 mm thin cooling fins. When the GPU starts working, the copper core inside the aluminum die-casting thermal base will quickly take the working heat from the GPU to the heat-pipe horizontally put inside the thermal base, and the heat will be equably and rapidly spread to the left part and right part of the aluminum die-casting thermal base, at same time, the two circular heat pipes also quickly bring the heat from GPU to the 0.2 mm thin cooling fins, now the strong wind pressure and airflow made by two cooling fans take all the heat out of the cooling module. This Cooling System developed by SPARKLE itself can get the most heat exchange area in a limited space, guarantee a highly efficient cooling effect. Besides, the cooling fans of the Dual Fly Cooling System can be adjusted aslant, so not only MOS circuit on the PCB can be cooled efficiently, the whole cooling efficiency can be raised too. According to the cooling test data provided by SPARKLE, when tilting the two cooling fans of the Dual Fly Cooling System 15 degrees, the GPU and video memory working temperatures can be 10 and 1.87 centigrade degrees lower than the reference cooling fans. The chassis environmental temperature also dropped by 4.66 centigrade degrees. At the same time, compared with the 30.6dB working noise brought by the reference cooling fans the Dual Fly Cooling System exclusively provided by SPARKLE has obvious advantage, its working noise only reaches 29dB.

Beside this innovative Dual Fly Cooling System , the Calibre P960 Graphics Card uses SPARKLE patent VGA Rectifier Technology (VRT), which set a iron bar on top side of the graphic card to ensure the PCB will not distort during the long-term usage, and ensure the sharp image and stable signals.

The Calibre P960 Graphics Card is the first product to be introduced in the Calibre GeForce 9 family, giving gamers the horsepower to play cutting-edge DirectX 10 games at a price they will love and can afford." Said Angus Huang, product manager of SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd."
SPARKLE continues to innovate in hardware technology so that game enthusiasts and consumers not only fully experience the incredible graphics effects but also get the artistic designed Dual Fly Cooling System, its innovative cooling design syncretizes all of the latest technologies and craftworks from cooling radiator industry today, including die-casting, extrusion, welding, heat pipe and copper-aluminum combination and so on. The Dual Fly Cooling System ensures the efficient cooling and operations. So that the users of the Calibre P960 Graphics Card can have an amazing gaming experience."

Specification Model Number Calibre P960 Graphic Card Graphics Processing Unit NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Core Clock 700MHz Memory Clock 2000MHz Memory Type 512MB GDDR3 Memory Interface 256-bit Stream Processors 64 Shader Clock 1850MHz Bus Type PCI-Express 2.0 RAMDAC 400 MHz DVI-I Dual DVI-I HDTV Resolution up to 1920 X 1080i HDCP Yes

Unique Features:

Leading Performance The performance of Calibre P960 Graphics Card is better than competing products.     High-Quality MOS circuit Use high-quality MOS circuit to efficiently lower the surface temperature of the PCB, prolong the life span of the graphics card, enhance the stability.     High-Quality low esr solid capacitors Provide more pure and more stable current for GPU and video memory, so the graphics card has the opportunity to work at higher frequency. Eliminate the risk and loss brought by capacitor explosion.     High efficient exclusive adjustable Dual Fly Cooling System The Calibre P960 Graphics Card uses the new designed Dual Fly Cooling System, its innovative cooling design syncretizes all of the latest technologies and craftworks from cooling radiator industry today, including die-casting, extrusion, welding, heat pipe and copper-aluminum combination and so on. The Dual Fly Cooling System can efficiently bring the heat from GPU, video memory and MOS circuit out of the graphics card, to ensure the stability during the long time usage.     HDMI READY Support HDMI, the latest high-resolution digital signal interface through the converter mode, allow graphics cards easily access to the latest large-size computer screen or plasma / LCD TVs (This function and accessory are optional. )     SPARKLE VGA Rectifier Technology (VRT) The SPARKLE VGA Rectifier Technology eliminates the PCB distortion and ensure the sharp image and stable signals .     Environment Friendly Packaging The Calibre P960 Graphics Card 's packaging is conforming to environmental protection regulations.     High-quality Accessories The Calibre P960 Graphics Card provides useful and high quality accessories with black Calibre style design.   Multilingual User's Guide included (9 languages) SPARKLE Calibre provides the Smart Install setup wizard and installation guide in several languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese.     Super Clock Technology (SCT) SPARKLE exclusive developed technology for performance gear up, it will raise the speed of all parts in the graphic card to achieve better performance of the whole part .