SPARKLE Calibre Series P980 GeForce 9800 GT OC Dual Fly 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Pros: Well, it is beautiful in color and design. That is the most evident thing about this card. Also, in design comes amazing cooling. This card, inside a very moderately cooled case, will idle at 38C and max out totally at 54C with a heavy stress test. Those two numbers are extremely good since your average gaming temperature will realistically be 48C. The card cools well and looks great. The black silicon and the daughter card looks great when you take the cover off (or have a clear side). It is quiet. Not silent. But not loud. The card stays stable and is well built with solid electronics. The design on the cooling is flawless. The company is also nice enough to inlcude a Component connector, a black DVI-to-VGA, and an S-Video cable. Overall, it was packaged well and came with a sufficient enough guide for usage of the daughter-card.

Cons: Let me first start by saying if you register it with "The Membership Club," the English on the sign-up page is atrocious. It will make you laugh. Trust me, it made my day. You can tell how small the company is. The main issue is the fact that it is not as quiet as it looks. However, it cools as well as it looks, so it definitely nullifies that complaint. The temp monitor daughter card is something you should be careful with. You need two full sized PCI slots of space provided by your case and motherboard for spacing. It touches the bottom at 2 slots. The cooling will be quite low to the 2nd PCI slot for usage. I would recommend being very careful in placing another card below it if you do not supply sufficient intake cooling. So the size is a factor. You just have to do your homework and eyeball this card well or you may have to send it back for size/expansion reasons. And yes, the card is long. If you have a MicroATX case without removable bays, you may hit one. Be careful

Overall Review: I will tell you up front. This is a small company based in Taiwan. I have hopes that the support is good because there is no telling what will happen with that. The company is not large like the rest, and they are just beginning to make presence. However, after getting the card, I will say up fron that it is the best cooling graphics card I have ever had and is the best build. It tell you the temperature, voltage, and fan RPM. It runs stable voltages and will definitely have overclocking potential. Their use of good electronics shows me that it wasn't cheaply made. I expect this card to last unlike my two eVGAs that died (one dead, other dying) in my old computer. You may be skeptical of an Asian company that has no surface and a fairly poor website. But let me say, that doesn't mean anything for reputation. I will be the first to boost them. They are good. Buy their product. It was the most "sketchy" choice I made, but it is my best. Simply.

Pros: The first time i picked up this card it was a monster. And it plays like a monster too! i can run Counter Strike Source and get 300 frames per second. And with Unreal Tournament 3 i get about 70-90 frames. This card is amazing.

Cons: it started yelling at me when i first got it in, finding out that the power cables weren't snug tight. But that got fixed. and the little LCD monitor in there doesnt use Fahrenheit. Bummer...

Overall Review: Get this card. its worth your money.

Pros: Sweet cooling pipes along with 2 fans. Runs at max res and settings, While duel boxxing games like WOW & crysis with no problem. Second one for SLI is in transit :-)! Excited to SLI these Great Value for the price. No problems with the driver install. More review to come.

Cons: not really a Con but the design of the LCD is a little clunky, I would have prefered it to be bendable upwards.

Overall Review: For the SLI bridge connector you have to sorta of force it through the metal heatpipe. There will be direct contact with the chip so i'm a little concerned. However a flexible cable would remedy this problem for 7-10 $

Pros: Runs very smooth and very cool even under the heaviest strains. The card idles at 47.0 degrees (C). I tested this card with several power hungry games (Fallout, GTA IV, Oblivion, Crysis, etc..) at maximum settings, and this card took everything I threw at it with no problems! The visual design is a delight, along with it's LCD display. It makes a wonderful addition to any gaming system with a side window. And the icing on the cake, is that this is a competitively priced video card that gives you alot more value for your money.

Cons: Sparkle (though they've been in the business for years) seems to be relatively unknown in the United States. Thus you may find technical support from the company itself is a bit lacking in the U.S.

Overall Review: This card is a bit hefty. If you are using a loaded mini or mid tower case, you might consider a replacing the case when purchasing this video card for something with more room. Also make sure you have at least a 400-450 Watt Power Supply for this card. I ended up purchasing this card when I found the Asus card I wanted was out of stock, And people were commenting on the cooling problems with EVGA and XFX 9600 series. It is BEST decision I ever made for a video card! I will be sticking with this brand a long time!

Pros: Definitely this is a good card, runs all my games in highest settings, easy to install, nice LED. You can just hear how the fans blows, its like playing in my mind this card stays cool and I feel it will last long unlike other cards, because of the heat pipes and the two fans. Nice design, really I'm amazed from what I saw.

Cons: Nothing at all.

Overall Review: What you see is what you get. Buy it!

Pros: Very great performance, very overclockable, high factory settings.

Cons: Alot of people Got bad cards, like me! it is unstable at core clock at 750. when other people had a stable core clock at 770?!?! This card has crashed on me 3 times before but maybe because my card was not perfect.

Overall Review: this card is very good for its value. looks good, with the 2 fans and all, and im a happy customer.

Pros: Fantastic looking card, Looks very sexy LED is a nice touch (when it isn't flashing) Idles in @ just over 38 C, about 52C under loads (3dmark tests.) Crisp, clean graphics, runs ice cold w/ stock heat sinks. Came w/ WaW free, also runs tha t smoothly at lower settings...

Cons: Within 2 hours of me turning on my PC the LED readout on this card began flashing violently (strobe light-like flashing) In the rare occasions that it does function, i get a very high pitched whine coming from it during the POST. Card comes with a s-video to component cable adapter, but i had already purchased the dvi-hdmi so i tried the hdmi first. I was greeted with fuzzy pictures and less than quality gameplay on every thing (including windows) except WaW, which for some reason runs flawlessly in HD. In attempts to clear up my HD picture, i bought component cables to use w/ the svideo to component adapter thinking that since they sent it w/ the card, it must be the best way to get HD output from the card. I was wrong. Same low quality pictures w/ same s h i t t y a s s gameplay.

Overall Review: I took 1 egg off for the less than quality HD because HD output is one of the main reasons i purchased this card. I was very very lenient while reviewing this card, i tried several different brands of hdmi cables, converters, and component cables. After literally days of being stumped by this "less than par" HD output, i determined that it is in fact the card. I switched back to Analog (dvi-dsub adapter) and everything is crystal clear. It really aggrivates me. So if you get anything out of this review it should be that 1. It really is a great card 2. The Hi-Def output on this thing really really really blows. 3. Neweggs policies have again found some way to screw me in the face. All in all i take 1 egg off for poor HD quality and 1 egg off for newegg's bad policies. I am sorely disappointed in this card and will now have to pawn it off on a friend so that i can get a card that has authentic crystal clear output that i have come to expect from high definition devices.....

Pros: Decent price, cool LCD display. Great thermal heat pipe solution with dual fans. Bought this along with the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P and the Intel Q9550, plays Fallout 3 on max 'Ultra High Settings' and hardly breaks a sweat :) Driver install was flawless on Win XP Pro, and has no issues running my dual 19" montiors.

Cons: None so far, I guess the price could have been lower but I'm very pleased with this purchase.

Overall Review: I was a bit worried about buying from such an unknown company, but I have no regrets so far. The card works beautifully, the heat pipe design is superb. Don't confuse Sparkle for some of these other low quality brands.