Friday, February 25th 2011

SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card with Effective Own Design Cooler, the ultimate DX11 3D monster from SPARKLE, which delivers intense performance and premium cooling effect for gamers who demand the best.

The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card is the latest new addition to SPARKLE's GTX 580 Series. Its core and memory clock are 772 and 4008 MHz respectively. Designed specifically for gamers who demand the best, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card is built with NVDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU. Based on 40nm processor and advanced GDDR5 memory technology, it consists of ground-breaking features including Microsoft DirectX 11 and NVIDIA PhysX which lead to incredibly immersive HD gaming experience and unrivaled performance.
Light Sense Design -- The Perfect Balance of Weight and Performance
For the cooler design, SPARKLE always has its own unique concept, it has been to balance the weight and the cooling performance of graphic cards' cooler. So as for this SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card, it adopts the aluminum fins with the pure copper heat pipes to enhance heat transfer efficiency while also reducing the weight of the cooler, effectively avoiding the risk of bending the plate. This cooler also integrated many of the most advanced manufacturing process, the whole cooler uses tin free welding process, pillars traversed cooling fins technology and pillars inserted cooling fins technology to ensure cooling efficiency, use life and the sense of integrated design. With this cooler, the full loading GPU temperature is 5 degree Celsius lower than the reference cooler of GeForce GTX 580 graphics card. The weight of the cooler is only half of the reference design.

One Slot Iron Bracket Design
The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card takes up 2 PCI slots, but only with one slot iron bracket, making the card to be more light and clean.

Dual 80mm Fans Design
The SPARKLE Announced GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card's cooler comes with two 80mm cooling fans. Compared with single fan design, they make the card running quieter and provide more powerful air flow for the graphics card.

Direct Contact Technology
The cooler of the SPARKLE Announced GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card use four pure copper heat pipes, combing with the GPU direct contact technology to enable more efficient heat transfer.

Unique&Advanced Cooling Fins Assembly Technology
Combining with pure aluminum cooling fins, the pure copper heat pipes use tin free welding process and cooling fins assembly technology, effectively avoiding the heat pipes' oxidation due to the corrosion from the high temperature tin melting process in the tin welding process and the high welding temperature.

Unique Designed Wind Collecting Cover
The most graphics cards' coolers can only randomly draw the air to do cooling job. But SPARKLE deliberately designs a unique wind collecting cover for the cooler. Using the specially designed air duct on the cover, the flow of the air will enter the cooler along the fixed orbit, to enhance the efficiency of heat dissipation, while reducing wear and tear on the fan. In addition, the air duct design can effectively avoid the hand injury due to touching the cooler during the graphics card installation and taking down process.

Ray Tracing Support: The Future Of Gaming
The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card enables interactive ray tracing for ultra photo-realistic scenes. The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card powers interactive raytracing, bringing spectacular, photo-realistic renderings to your screen for the first time. By using the power of the GF110 GPUs, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card supports recursion in hardware, enabling efficient ray tracing and a host of other graphics algorithms. It excels not just at standard ray tracing, but also at advanced global illumination algorithms such as path tracing.

32x Anti-Aliasing Technology
The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card implements a brand new 32x anti-aliasing mode for higher levels of image quality. And the GeForce GTX 580's enhanced compression engine maintains incredible performance with anti-aliasing and resolution cranked up, providing both high frame rates and top notch image quality.

Total Immersive With NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Technology
Prepare to be blown away by the most immersive PC gaming experience imaginable. Leveraging the power of multiple GF110 GPUs in an NVIDIA SLI configuration, NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround enables a new level of eye-popping 3D stereo gaming, expanding your real estate across 3 panels for the ultimate "inside the game" feeling. The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card provides the incredible graphics horsepower to run your game in 3D stereo, across 3 panels, at HD resolutions up to 5760x1080. The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card aslo supports gaming across three non-3D displays with resolutions up to 2560x1600,it's the best in Class 2D Surround Gaming.

Stunning DX11 Gaming Performance
Packing in 512 CUDA cores, a high speed GDDR5 memory interface, and full DirectX 11 support, the SPARKLE Announced GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card .With Effective Own Design Cooler is designed for groundbreaking graphics performance. With a revolutionary new scalable geometry pipeline and enhanced anti-aliasing capabilities, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card is the world's most powerful single GPU Graphics Card solution.

1536MB Incredible Large High Speed GDDR5 Video Memory
Today's DX11 game, such as Stalker: Call Of Pripyat, Metro 2033, they insanely use as large as possible number of bump texture, transparent texture to describe faces of characters and render realistic gaming scenes, so these DX11 games put rigorous demands on the bandwidth and capacities of video memory. The current situation demands at least 1GB video memory to run these games. Compared with high-end graphics cards on market with 1GB GDDR5 video memory, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card comes with incredible large 1536MB high speed GDDR5 video memory, meeting the rigorous demands from current DX11 games.
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48 Comments on SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

#26
Fourstaff
Awersome English is awesome. I think the design, while a bit flawed, have a good goal: make the card lighter. "Lanners" will appreciate, but the shroud completely spoils the whole party. And I like sparkle's colour scheme, who else have purple as a major colour?
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#27
Laurijan
The cooler looks powerful but I don´t get why companies don´t make closed coolers that blow out of the case instead of adding to the case temp in blowing into the case - it really doesn´t make anything more expensive or complicated.
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#28
JerryTsao
The shell of cooler is a useless ornament. And I want to know the PCB design of this thing..
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#29
LDNL
It looks like a shark! but not when its upside down...
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#30
Ghost


Gentlemen, rev up your chainsaws.
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#31
entropy13
At least there isn't any Twilight versions of the card, considering the name of the company. :laugh:
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#32
Fourstaff
JerryTsaoThe shell of cooler is a useless ornament. And I want to know the PCB design of this thing..
Nope, shell is useful for directing airflow.
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#33
runnin17
Air cooling is for nubs. I just can't bring myself to take any company named Sparkle seriously. EVGA FTW!
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#35
Fourstaff
runnin17Air cooling is for nubs. I just can't bring myself to take any company named Sparkle seriously. EVGA FTW!
Sparkle makes decent cards, don't diss them because their English is bad. EVGA can be overpriced, imo.
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#36
runnin17
FourstaffSparkle makes decent cards, don't diss them because their English is bad. EVGA can be overpriced, imo.
You can't really put a price on peace of mind. EVGA has the best customer service in the business. I'd easily spend an extra $30 or $40 to know that if my card ever has issues I can get it fixed or a new one without any issues whatsoever.
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#37
blkhogan
I like the look. Would I buy one? Hell no. But hey, someone somewhere will. Maybe Barney the big purple dinosaur will do a review on it. :)
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#38
Fourstaff
runnin17You can't really put a price on peace of mind. EVGA has the best customer service in the business. I'd easily spend an extra $30 or $40 to know that if my card ever has issues I can get it fixed or a new one without any issues whatsoever.
No, not really. But on the other hand, I have never heard a bad case of customer service off Sparkle (or they are so small no one bothers?) either, and I would like to give them a sporting chance to prove themselves. I rarely use customer service, so I don't really know which one is good.
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#39
runnin17
So basically you want to take a gamble on a $470 piece of computer hardware? Doesn't make much sense to me. I have never heard of sparkle's customer service being bad or good. However, I know for a fact that EVGA has very, very good customer service. If you want to take a chance with your hard earned money, be my guest. Seems foolish to me.
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#40
Fourstaff
Not widely known does not mean that they are absolutely shit. Not many people have heard of Be Quiet! but some of their PSUs are good. Or Mitsuoka Car company. Same goes to Sparkle, they have been around for ages.
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#42
runnin17
FourstaffNot widely known does not mean that they are absolutely shit. Not many people have heard of Be Quiet! but some of their PSUs are good. Or Mitsuoka Car company. Same goes to Sparkle, they have been around for ages.
No where did I use that description of the company. Does the fact that they have been around for ages mean they are a decent company? Bose has been around a long time and they are an absolutely terrible, POS company.
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#43
hanzi
I think it just depends on what country you are. EVGA is a great choice if you are in North America. But in other countries other brands excel.
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#44
Fourstaff
runnin17No where did I use that description of the company. Does the fact that they have been around for ages mean they are a decent company? Bose has been around a long time and they are an absolutely terrible, POS company.
They have been around for ages means that they are not absolute POS in every direction. Contrary to popular belief, Bose actually makes half decent products, just that they are horribly overpriced. And yes, quality of service depends on where you are in the world. I can get Logitech to replace an out-of-warranty product here in UK, but good luck trying to get a response from them in Australia. Same with EVGA, they are good in US does not mean that their service will be replicated elsewhere in the world.
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#45
ArkanHell
a- I can't believe that the day when that guy presented the design of the card, no one in that meeting room says "Hey, isn't bad to make a card longer that it is".
b- If D. Trump were on that room, after the presentation he would simply say "You are fired".
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#46
_JP_
ArkanHellb- If D. Trump were on that room, after the presentation he would simply say "You are fired".
c- Now you have to pay Mr. Trump for trademark infringements.
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#47
Laurijan
He never said: You are fired™ :D
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#48
runnin17
FourstaffThey have been around for ages means that they are not absolute POS in every direction. Contrary to popular belief, Bose actually makes half decent products, just that they are horribly overpriced. And yes, quality of service depends on where you are in the world. I can get Logitech to replace an out-of-warranty product here in UK, but good luck trying to get a response from them in Australia. Same with EVGA, they are good in US does not mean that their service will be replicated elsewhere in the world.
I am done arguing with you. If you think Bose actually makes decent products then you are a lost cause IMO. I stated my opinion about Sparkle as a company and spending the extra money on a well-regarded company's products. If you want to throw your money at Sparkle and Bose products I won't stand in your way.
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