Calibre P860, GeForce 8600GT

INTRODUCTION

As a reviewer it is often easy to have your focus on the high end cards and not really giving thought about the slower cards. The truth is that even though we all would like to own a fast HD2900XT or a GeForce 8800GTS/GTX/Ultra, not many of us can afford them. To many users, spending the same amount of money on a video card as they have spent on the rest of the system just is not an option. NVIDIA and AMD of course are fully aware of this and thus put a lot of work on their mainstream and budget GPU’s. Today we are reviewing a card from Sparkle that uses NVIDIA’s mainstream GeForce 8600GT GPU, the Calibre P860. Not only is this one of the fastest GeForce 8600GT cards on the market, it also comes with a little extra gimmick.

ABOUT 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. While they say they market their products globally, the distributor list only lists distributors in Europe and Asia so you probably won’t find these cards in the US, which is a shame. You can read about the company here.