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Memory-rich 9600 GTs served by Sparkle

Sparkle’s latest video cards can be boldly categorized as a highly avoidable category.

Sparkle's disgruntled employees took the mid-range 9600 GT into management, resulting in several new, but far from epoch-making, models. The cooling, which can be called frivolous, was made even more "funny" with an ugly plastic element, but this is not why these graphic controllers will become the target of attacks, rather because of the type and amount of memory used. It happened that the 64 MHz graphics processor with 650 shader units was effectively associated with DDR800 chips running at 2 MHz, resulting in 1 and 2 (!) GB models. Even the former is a slight exaggeration (and we were putting it very delicately at the time), but it is absolutely impossible to find a reasonable explanation for the latter, if only that the ignorant customer will happily buy these "restrained" but memory-rich video cards anyway. Two DVI ports and a TV output have been placed on the rear panel of the graphic controllers that support NVIDIA SLI, NVIDIA PhysX, NVIDIA CUDA, NVIDIA PureVideo HD and DirectX 10 technologies.

Memory-rich 9600 GTs served by Sparkle

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