Sparkle Calibre 8800GTX P880+OC

INTRODUCTION

It is an understatement that we at Bjorn3d like the GeForce 8800 from NVIDIA. So far we have reviewed 9 different GeForce 8800 cards and they all have scored very well. I myself tested the Sparkle 8800 GTX and was blown away by its excellent performance. When I was contacted by Sparkle again to test their newest top of the line 8800GTX card I of course jumped to the chance.

The Calibre P880+ OC Edition is far from a regular GeForce 8800GTX card. Not only has Sparkle overclocked it right out of the box, they also have switched the regular cooler and put a TEC active cooler system on the card.

Will this be the GeForce 8800GTX card to rule them all? Read on to find out.

SPARKLE AND MACS TECHNOLOGY INC

There actually are two companies behind this product. While Sparkle brings the actual video card to the party MACS Technology Inc brings the TEC Active cooling. The company that provided me with the card, dollarshop.nl, actually was the one bringing these two together and as you will see I think it was a great idea.

SPARKLE

Sparkle is a company from Taiwan that makes and sells video cards that use NVIDIA’s various GPU’s on them. They were established in 1981. Sparkle is one of NVIDIA’s launch partners. You can read about the company here.

MACS TECHNOLOGY INC

The company behind the cooler is MACS. This stands for Micro Air Conditioning Solutions. They have been around since 1987 and concentrate on creating PC Cooler products and PC Cases.

MACS Technology Inc. has been concentrating on the manufacture of PC cooler, PC case and communicating related products since 1987. We do have staunchly investigate develop team. The completely manufacture factory makes the best quality and after service.

Our operating concepts are:
Innovated: Always requests the products originalities and differences of design.
Flexible: Feedback the market information promptly and satisfied customers desire.
Valuable appending: Always do the 1+1 greater than 2 businesses for customers.
Even though, we are not a big company but refined products are our target and goals. Therefore, designing and producing classical products with low costs are MACS’ common view. We are willing to keep this decision forward.

They probably should hire an English guy to fix their language though.