Get impressed with sparkling HD experience performed by the latest graphics solutions revealed

15 May 2012 -Sparkle, one of the leading manufacturers of graphics cards, today announced a series of latest graphics for mainstream and entry segments users, SPARKLE GT 610, GT620 and GT630. Packed with all the latest technology, SPARKLE optimizes the cooling design with different architectures, aim to deliver the best HD experience and smooth game play performance to fulfill different users’ demands.

Low Profile Design for the premium space seekers

SPARKLE announced GT630, GT620 and GT610 low profile design lined up for HTPC users with limited space available. Equipped with up to 2G onboard memory and advanced technology, users can be impressed by fluent HD entertainment without having to compromise their system size. Furthermore, SPARKLE GT610 has passive cooling solution available, offered the soundless entertaining platform and delivered the best user experience.

ATX Design for advanced HD entertainment

To provide the playable HD gaming experience, SPARKLE unveiled GT630 with ultra large 4GB onboard memory, brought you fantastic and slick entertaining performance. Also, it takes advantage of well-known cooling solution provider, Arctic Cooling, SPARKLE GT610 easily dissipates the heat by utilizing the solid fan structure, delivering an outstanding cooling effects.

All these new products support the cutting-edge Microsoft DirectX 11 graphics and NVIDIA CUDA technology, easily accelerated demanding system and provided a blazing fast performance, handily took the gaming to a new level. What’s more, with OpenGL4.0 and native HDMI 1.4a support, your digital life will level-up with stunning HD experience by any applications.

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Featuring 1536 CUDA cores, 1006 MHz GPU clock and 2GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory,

SPARKLE’s flagship 28nm GTX 680 Inferno graphics card greatly improves system power consumption and supports the latest PCI Express Gen 3 standards. The card requires two 6-pin power connectors, as the card has a TDP of only 195W. SPARKLE GTX 680 Inferno is not only faster but also operates at a much lower temperature and consumes lesser power than its rivals.

The Fastest single-card gaming on Earth

The new SMX streaming multiprocessor delivers twice the performance/watt compared to previous generations. NVIDIA GPU Boost is a technique which dynamically boosts clock speeds based on the workload of the every game and the headroom available. The SPARKLE GTX 680 Inferno has a 1,006MHz base clock and a 1,058MHz boost clock and can shift based on the dependence of the load and power consumption.
The Smoothest gameplay experience on Earth

The SPARKLE GTX 680 Inferno supports FXAA and TXAA anti-aliasing techniques.

FXAA anti-aliasing technique can be up to 60% faster than 4xMSAA.TXAA is a new style anti aliasing technique that makes the most of the graphics card high texture performance for better image quality. In addition, Adaptive VSync technology provides the perfect solution for gamers without sudden stuttering and no tearing on the screen.

The Riches test visual experience on Earth

The SPARKLE GTX 680 Inferno is able to run quad-display support and comes with 2 Dual-Link DVI outputs, 1 HDMI 1.4 port, and 1 Display port connector. With NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology, you can expand your PC games across three displays in full stereoscopic 3D for breathtaking panoramic gaming , plus the new card can support a fourth accessory display to get access to your email, web, cheat sheets , or other applications while you game.

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【Sparkle GTX 560 SE】 is built with the best quality materials and introduces ultimate fashion and style with simple grandness. The short PCB design allows the card to be installed into small chassis. The top front fan cover is made of high quality matt black aluminium which adds a more elegant touch to the cold mechanical look of graphics card. More importantly, the aluminium surface area improves the heat transfer efficiency significantly.
【Sparkle GTX 560 SE】 packs 288 CUDA Cores, a 192-bit memory interface, a core clock of 736MHz, a 1GB GDDR5 memory and a pair of 6-pin PCI-E power. The display output configuration includes 2 Dual-Link DVI ports supporting resolutions up to 2560×1600 and 1 mini-HDMI connector. Whether it’s exceptional gaming or HD video experience, 【Sparkle GTX 560 SE】brings unprecedented visual pleasure to consumers! In addition, the powerful 9-cm fan successfully boosts up cooling performance and operates stably even at high speed. This will perfectly solve noise problem and significantly extend the lifespan of the cooling fan.

【Sparkle GTX 560 SE】 balances performance, power consumption and noise！This card shows a 36% increase in 3DMark 11 score compared to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti reference board, only 20% behind GeForce GTX 560. Furthermore, 【Sparkle GTX 560 SE】 can do wonders to increase excellent performance per watt by 42% compared with GeForce GTX 550 Ti. This card also provides an extremely quiet environment (when operating at full speed) at only 32dB quieter than GTX 560.
【Sparkle GTX 560 SE】improves overall performance and offers a great value for money at a 25% less than GeForce GTX 560 price. It is an ideal solution for gaming PC applications requiring reliability, high performance, and low power consumption at a low price.

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Incredibly, Perica_barii from Montenegro achieved a 3DMark 11 performance preset score of P12773 with ASRock X79 Extreme4 Motherboard, Intel Corei7 3930K and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, and set   the official world record of 3DMark 11 single GPU score. The former record holder SuidePhoenix also made a breakthrough on his own score to P12529 with ASRock X79 Extreme6, Intel Corei7 3930K and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, which came on the top in the final week of the competition. Moreover, in Futuremark’s official 3DMark 11 Physics score Hall of Fame, 3 out of the top 20 results were from this contest.

The competition which ran from January 16 to February 12, 2012 attracted approximately 100,000 entries  worldwide that made the competition was extremely intense. With 22 entries scoring exceeding P10,000 on 3DMark11 test from the competition and myriads of  positive reviews from the global  media, ASRock X79 and Z68 series is widely regarded as motherboards of high reliability and excellent performance.

Winner List:

【Henry Lin, the general manager of SPARKLE Computer, joined event kick off ceremony 】

　　ASRock collaborated with Futuremark and organized the Global OC Competition by involving several leading brands in the PC component industry such as Intel, Kingston, Cooler Master, Sparkle and ROCCAT. ASRock aims to pull more overclockers to experience the extreme performance of ASRock X79 series through the Global OC Competition.

【The world OC champion Nick Shih demonstrated the overclocking through ASRock X79 Professional MB to examine CPU/GPU performance by using SPARKLE’s Calibre GTX 580 graphics card. 】

The contest includes two events:
1) The highest Scores
Sandy Bridge-E and Sandy Bridge platform. The scores will be reviewed on a weekly basis and the weekly winner will be awarded with the prize worth USD650 and USD1, 000 dollars respectively. The participant who submits the highest score within these four weeks will be the final champion for each group respectively. The Sandy Bridge-E final champion will be awarded with the prize worth USD3, 000 dollars while the Sandy Bridge final champion won the prize worth USD2, 000 dollars.
2) The Precise Score
To encourage more amateur overclockers attend the event and have fun in overclocking, ASRock will hold affiliated OC campaign on ASRock Facebook page as well. The participants are required to post the screenshot and the hyperlink of their 3D Mark11 scores which ended 79 or 68 in last two digits. The entry which earns the most “Likes” from other Facebook users will be awarded with prize worth USD500 dollars. For more details about ASRock Global OC Competition, please visit http://www.asrock.com/microsite/oc/ http://www.3dmark.com/competitions/ASRock-King/

During the event, Euro Cup’s website has extremely high 150,000 pageviews. In total, 640 players over the Europe entered the tournament. These excellent teams of online fighters came mostly from Russia, Italy and Hungary.
On the day of the grand finale, more than 6,000 people watched this final showdown online at Kaostv.nl. This is just a glimpse of how serious the European players were about this tournament.

Next, the Excello TF2 Winter Warmup Open Cup also sponsored by Sparkle will be held on 17 Jan.  Are you ready to fight? Winner teams in the event will be eligible to win the Sparkle sponsored GTS 450 graphics card worth a total of 780 Euros. Contact the organizer of the contest for details on start times and rules, please visit the website http://www.excello.net/