Sparkle X560 Ti DF Calibre Review
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Published: 7th November 2011 | Source: Sparkle | Price: £170 |
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The packaging is a masterpiece of understatement that nicely backs up the "professional graphics card" moniker on the front. We've often remarked how when you're at the higher end of the market, less is more.
The card itself neatly follows this trend of swathes of black with some minor white text to break things up. Two large PWM fans dominate the topside, and the vent holes near the outputs look very nice. Round the back we have a sturdy backplate to make sure that the card remains solid and the heat is spread evenly.
The Calibre branding is discreet although it's quite strange to see that in a standard tower case the Calibre logo by the power inputs will be upside down.
Outputs are the standard GeForce arrangement of an HDMI and two DVI-Ds. It's always nice to see the DVI colour matching the main card, and it's yet another one of those little touches which makes the Sparkle GTX560Ti DF Calibre a treat to look at and enjoy.
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this is a GORGEOUS card......if they make a 580 like this instead of the arctic cooling triple fan one......im in.....ill sell my 6970's is a second!!!!!!!
and you know what.......it's at this point id like to send a big middle finger to the exec's over at nvidia.....no tri-sli on the 560Ti is a DAMN shame!!!!!!
Nice review by the way
look inside? standard vrm arrangement?
Amazon US has the ones reviewed here (currently out of stock) but whether you can get shipping to UK..............
Only "official" supplier doesnt have the reviewed version OR the Purple Blade version on the Calibre Site (incidentally clock speeds are even higher than the one reviewed 1ghz out the box)
So guess the only way to find em is troll the web or perhaps ebay...
Looks like a solid card though. I'm really happy Sapphire isn't exclusive to ATi these days.
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Originally Posted by badatgames18
nice review tom! look inside? standard vrm arrangement? |
The good news there is that a waterblock is available for it.
GeForce GTX 560 Ti (PCI-E 2.0)- Core Clock:1000 MHz/Memory Clock:4800 MHz - Stream processors:384 - Memory: 1024MB GDDR5 (256bit) - DVI x 2/Mini HDMI x 1
Bring back the PURPLE fans I say
GeForce GTX 570 (PCI-E 2.0)- Core Clock:772 MHz/Memory Clock:4212 MHz - Stream processors:480 - Memory:1280MB GDDR5 (320bit) - DVI x 2/Mini HDMI x 1
http://www.calibrestyle.com.tw/index.asp
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Originally Posted by paulb1972
Saphire = Sparkle??? |
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Originally Posted by Earthmonger
Isn't that what I just said... The good news there is that a waterblock is available for it. |
fixed it now ;D
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