Introduction:
SPARKLE was established in 1982. SPARKLE is a company with endless energy, vitality and a management of unmatched wit and dedication. SPARKLE used to be an OEM, recently they started retailing. SPARKLE respects individualism, insists on highest quality, cares about the natural environment and serves its customers with highest regard. These principles have already penetrated into every corner of the company, motivating SPARKLE and its industry peers toward their leadership positions all the way into the next century.
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These fans measure to be 92mm each. They are controlled by PWM signal and provide a total of 54CFM.
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In the following picture, you can clearly see that this card occupies 3 slots. This might be a problem if you are planning to put two of these in SLi.
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Inspecting the card carefully, you’ll notice that SPARKLE used a small metal heatsink that cools the VRM circuitry of the card. It is good to see a VRM heatsink present, some other manufacturers save a few cents here.
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Finally, we found a GTX460 that’s overclocked out of box and performs really well. Even the reference GTX460 offers great price performance over its competitors and this overclocked version is a step ahead. With a small price premium you get a pretty noticeable boost in performance. SPARKLE Calibre X460G beats the MSI GTX460 Cyclone OC’ed version hands down.
SPARKLE really made this card a "Best Buy" by putting an aftermarket cooler on it that performs really well. Temperatures were way
below safe limits, yes! Way below, during our testing and noise was not really noticeable.
Three slot design might be a problem for users willing to put this card is SLi but these days most motherboard manufacturers are designing boards in such a way that they can accommodate three slot cards in dual GPU configuration easily.
Last but not the least, this card costs 23,000PKR in Pakistan. All other factors and price of this card, make it a worthy deal. You’ll surely love this card a lot.
