Calibre P960

SPARKLE Introduced Calibre P960 Graphics Cards With
Exclusive Adjustable Dual Fly Cooling System

Taipei, Taiwan - March 27 , 2008 - 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.

Temperature Test

Noise Test

	9600 GT Reference Board
	Calibre P960 Rotate

	9600 GT Reference Board
	Calibre P960

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 .

GeForce 9600 GT Features and Benefits :

NVIDIA® unified architecture Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs. GigaThread™ Technology Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing. Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 support World's first DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects. NVIDIA® SLI™ technology Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single graphic cards configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI ExpressR graphics, SLI technology dramatically scales performance on today's hottest games. NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ULTRA-fast frame rates: 16x Anti-aliasing: Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sample rates obliterates jagged edges 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range(HDR):Twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effects-now with support for anti-aliasing. NVIDIA® Quantum Effects. Technology Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics to be simulated and rendered on the GPU -Vall white freeing the CPU to run game engine and AI. NVIDIA® ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) Delivers a proven record of compatibility reliability and stability with the widest range of games and applications ForceWare provides the best out-of-box experience and delivers continuous performance and feature updates over the life of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs. OpenGL® 2.1 optimizations and support Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications. NVIDIA® nView® Multi-Display Technology Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors. PCI Express 2.0 support Designed to run perfectly with the PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, which has higher bandwidth than PCI Express 1.1 to deliver 16GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers. Dual 400MHz RAMDACs Blazing-fast RAMDACs support dual QXGA displays with ULTRA-high, ergonomic refresh rates-Vup to 2048x1536@85Hz. Dual Dual-Link DVI Support Able to drive industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600. Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ NVIDIA's fourth-generation GPU architecture built for Windows Vista gives users the best possible experience with the Windows Aero 3D graphical user interface. NVIDIA PureVideo HD VP2 technology NVIDIA ®PureVideo™ HD VP2 technology is the combination of high-definition movie decode acceleration and post-processing, HDCP circuitry, and integration with HD movie players that delivers the ultimate high-definition movie experience on a PC. Discrete, Programmable Video Processor NVIDIA PureVideo is a discrete programmable processing core in NVIDIA GPUs that provides superb picture quality and ULTRA-smooth movies with low CPU utilization and power. Hardware Decode Acceleration Provides ULTRA-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV and PEG-2 HD and SD movies. Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing Sharpens HD and standard definition interlaced content on progressive displays, delivering a crisp, clear picture that rivals high-end home-theater systems. High-Quality Scaling Enlarges lower resolution movies and videos to HDTV resolutions, up to 1080i, while maintaining a clear, clean image. Also provides downscaling of videos, including high-definition, while preserving image detail. Inverse Telecine (3:2 & 2:2 Pulldown Correction) Recovers original film images from films-converted-to-video (DVDs, 1080i HD content), providing more accurate movie playback and superior picture quality. Bad Edit Correction When videos are edited after they have been converted from 24 to 25 or 30 frames, the edits can disrupt the normal 3:2 or 2:2 pulldown cadence. PureVideo uses advanced processing techniques to detect poor edits, recover the original content, and display perfect picture detail frame after frame for smooth, natural looking video. Video Color Correction NVIDIA's Color Correction Controls, such as Brightness, Contrast and Gamma Correction let you compensate for the different color characteristics of various RGB monitors and TVs ensuring movies are not too dark, overly bright, or washed out regardless of the video format or display type. Integrated SD and HD TV Output Provides world-class TV-out functionality via Composite, S-Video, Component, DVI, or HDMI connections. Supports resolutions up to 1080p depending on connection type and TV capability. HDCP Circuitry Designed to meet the output protection management (HDCP) and security specifications of the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, allowing the playback of encrypted movie content on PCs when connected to HDCP-compliant displays. HD Movie Player Integration NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology powers the world's leading HD movie player software applications, providing the optimal HD DVD and Blu-ray movie experience. Noise Reduction : Improves movie image quality by removing unwanted artifacts. Edge Enhancement: Sharpens movie images by providing higher contrast around lines and object.