Improved GeForce 9800GTX+ by Sparkle

Sparkle has announced a new graphics card, based on nVidia's 9800 GTX+ graphisc chip. What makes the card different from Sparkle's existing two 9800GTX+ cards is the fact that Sparkle now uses its own PCB design, supports HDMI and uses a different cooler. 

Sparkle has added extra power phases to the PCB as well as an enhanced power circuit, which should result in more stabil power for both the core as the memory. The clockspeeds of this GeForce 9800 GTX+ chip, the 512 MB GDDR3 memory and the shaders, are equal to the regular 9800 GTX+ cards, respectively 738 MHz, 2200 MHz and 1836 MHz. The card uses a 256-bit memory bus.

The graphics card features a new cooler, constructed by Sparkle. The cooler combines a copper base with an aluminum cooling block. As mentioned before, the card has native HDMI support, making a conversion dongle unrequired. The usual nVidia technology support such as PureVideo, PhysX and CUDA are also present. 

When Sparkle's SF-PX98GTX+512D3-NHM, as the card is branded, will become available and at which cost is still unknown. Additional specifications can be found on Sparkle's product page. 

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