Sparkle

Sparkle has been developing graphics card based on their own PCB layout for quite some time now, hoping to improve on the NVIDIA reference design their cards have lower manufacturing cost and provide higher clockspeeds out of the box. Their new DX10 NVIDIA mid-range cards are no different.

They are preparing their own Geforce 8600 GT card with a rather special design twist:



What you see jotting out here is a small display which shows GPU temperature, future revision may include voltage display for core/mem:



At their booth a passive 7600GT with high GPU/MEM clocks proved to be quite a popular sale, striking a good balance between performance and price:



It’s no secret that Sparkle has partnered with MACS to develop a high end cooling solution for their Calibre series of high end cards; the P880+ OC edition has a TEC cooling slapped on to keep the overclocked core running cool:



The GTS version is also available with the TEC Cooling and comes in both 320Mb and 640Mb edition:



A very flashy demo system was running water cooled Geforce 8800 GTX cards inside a Coolermaster Stacker case which received a very nice chrome finish:



MACS/Casetek

MACS has quite a success with their TEC based CPU cooling solutions, they licensed their technology to other manufacturers like Ultra, Vigor and Titan. They have a revised CPU cooler in the works, one was shown in their demo system:



But also none-TEC units were close to release:



Casetek had a few different case designs with the most prominent being this mirror polished beauty:




It features a massive cooling fan at the backside of the motherboard; we tested this cooling system here and found it to provide “okay” cooling results.