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SPARKLE Computer

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Industry
  
Computer Industry

Founded
  
1982

Headquarters
  
New Taipei, Taiwan

Type of business
  
Private


Products
  
graphics cards, Consumer Electronics

Website
  
http://www.sparkle.com.tw

Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd. (stylised as SPARKLE),is a Taiwanese electronics firm established in 1982, based in Taipei. The company currently specialises in manufacturing video cards using Nvidia graphics processing units, along with peripherals (fans and heatsinks) for graphics controllers.

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Sparkle is one of the few manufacturers of modern discrete video cards that still use the PCI bus, producing PCI versions of GeForce 8 Series and GeForce 9 Series based discrete graphics controllers, and more recently, GeForce 200 series and GeForce 6 series-based GPUs using the aforementioned interface.

GeForce 8400 PCI

SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 8400 series cards in PCI versions.

  • SF-PC84GS512U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
  • SF-PC84GS512U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with passive cooling - 512MB RAM)
  • SF-PC84GS256U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with active cooling - 256MB RAM)
  • SF-PC84GS256U2LP (GeForce 8400 GS Series with passive cooling - 256MB RAM)

    • GeForce 8500 PCI

    SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 8500 series card in a PCI version.

  • SF-PC85GT256U2 (GeForce 8500 GT Series with passive cooling - 256MB RAM)

    • GeForce 9400 PCI

    SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 9400 series card in a PCI version.

  • SP94GT512D2L-HPP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with passive cooling - 512MB RAM)
  • SP94GT512D2L-HP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
  • SP94GT1024D2L-HPP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with passive cooling - 1024MB RAM)
  • SP94GT1024D2L-HP (GeForce 9400 GT Series with active cooling - 1024MB RAM)

    • GeForce 9500 PCI

    SPARKLE introduced a unique PCI version of the GeForce 9500 series card in a PCI version.

  • SP95GT512D2L-HP (GeForce 9500 GT Series with active cooling - 512MB RAM)
  • SP95GT1024D2L-HP (GeForce 9500 GT Series with active cooling - 1024MB RAM)

    • Low Profile PCIe

    SPARKLE has also introduced 2 low profile PCI Express cards from the GeForce 9 series:

  • Low profile GeForce 9600 with stock settings
  • Low profile GeForce 9800 GT with stock settings and 512MB of GDDR3 RAM on a 256bit bus.

    • References

    SPARKLE Computer Wikipedia
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