News Sparkle Returns to the GPU Landscape, With Three Intel Arc GPUs

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Sparkle re-enters the GPU market with three new Intel Arc based GPUs

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[edzieba]

Sparkle

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.

 

[Exploding PSU]

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.

This must be way before my time, as I can't remember ever seeing the brand on the shelves (or anywhere really).

 

[Eximo]

Looks like they stopped with Nvidia 600 series.

Apparently they were known for taking contemporary GPUs and making them PCI, not PCIe up through the old 9000 series.

 

[Giroro]

I'm still waiting for an A380 in either half height or single slot. Preferably both.
Anything modern that can fit in an old SFF business PC, really.

 

[MiniITXEconomy]

I can definitely get behind this design, man, what a dapper card. MSI, are you taking notes?!

 

[jkflipflop98]

Love their paper towels!

 

[Eximo]

I'm still waiting for an A380 in either half height or single slot. Preferably both.
Anything modern that can fit in an old SFF business PC, really.

It is a shame the ASRock A380 is a full height card with an 8-pin power connector. I've been meaning to measure the heatsink pattern and see if I can mount something better to it. If it can't be small, it could at least be passive. (Right now the fan spins about once a minute for 1-2 seconds when doing video playback, a little annoying)

 

[atomicWAR]

Nice to see them back. They use to have some interesting designs. I look forward to see what they bring to market!

 

[Devoteicon]

Love their paper towels!

I prefer their dishwasher detergent.

 

[atomicWAR]

This must be way before my time, as I can't remember ever seeing the brand on the shelves (or anywhere really).

That made me feel old, lol. I still remember when graphics cards were called 3d accelerators and stuffed into PCI slots in the 90's.

 

[Unolocogringo]

I have a 8800gt and 400w power supply by them, so that means I'm old?????

 

[Eximo]

Well, that was about 15 years ago.

I also remember the days of the Voodoo 2 and PCI bus. I got one after my brother bought himself a Matrox card and a Pentium II if I recall. In hindsight that was probably a mistake, but as I recall the feature he wanted specifically was MIP mapping which appeared also on the Voodoo 3 later on (which I bought, and was quite happy with until I made the switch to Nvidia)

 

[Avro Arrow]

So, Sparkle is back! Wow. It has only been over a decade! So who else is coming back?

Diamond Multimedia?
HIS?
Club3D?
Visiontek?
Albatron?

Too bad that BFG is truly dead. They made some awesome-looking cards!

 

[Eximo]

That is the one I have, just found the box. I must have been thinking of a different card. My brother currently has that system, still using it for Firewire and XP for some old digital music instruments. Had a pretty light life all things considered.