Friday, March 28th 2008
Sparkle Calibre P960 - GeForce 9600GT 512MB with Dual Fly Cooling
Sparkle Computer has introduced a non-reference GeForce 9600GT using a new Dual Fly cooling. The card comes factory overclocked with a core running at 700MHz, 1850MHz shader clock and 512MB GDDR3 memory at 2.0GHz using 256-bit memory interface. The most interesting part is the cooler though. According to the company's PR "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." The actual gain from Dual Fly is up to 10°C cooler GPU, 5°C cooler case temperature and less noise (around 29dB). The Calibre P960 is expected to be available soon.
Source:
NordicHardware
20 Comments on Sparkle Calibre P960 - GeForce 9600GT 512MB with Dual Fly Cooling
SLICK! If you had proper ventillation inside your case you wouldnt have to worry. if your still worried & have a few power tools handy then you can mod yourself a little 80/92/120mm hole in the side of your case near the graphics card & attach a fan there to directly blow 'fresh' air on the card.
is this card still a G92 or G94??? (I think its G94)
if its a G94 it should run much cooler then G92 & the previous series - so stop panicing, you'l scare the other tpu members
factory OC, quiet fan(s), decent temps.
Oh as for alexp999: where else will the heat go? into your case. there hasnt been an effective exhaust cooler for nvidia in a long time, even the stock coolers leave a lot of heat in the case.
If they dont, well... unless TT has a patent on it its going to be hard to protect (they arent selling it as a 3rd party cooler, only bundled with a card - that may be a good defining point)
aaah... wow.
but this TEC cooler you speak of... is niiiise...?
As if Ford settled a lawsuit against Toyota because they make cars with 4 tyres and a wheel...
FreedomEclipse: it's a G94 indeed. ;)
This card looks pretty, I like the black PCB and that they chose the chrome coloured cooler which would give this card an industrial look. It's time that more board vendors take to 1 GB memory as a USP instead of OC+better cooler. With the prices of memory on the fall, it would make a sweet (and relatively inexpensive) option of 1 GB memory.
it aint in stock but we got a price: 146 euros ... ~£120 which imo is cheap for such a slick card!