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Sparkle bundles custom overclocking software

Spa Tune tweaks the numbers
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 18:07

GRAPHICS CARD Maker Sparkle has announced that all new hardware from the Taiwanese company will be bundled with Spa Tune, a custom-designed control tool which will allow users to fine tune graphics performance and power consumption.

With an interface which owes more than a slight debt to Jonathan Ives and the Iphone, the software has three basic modes:

Want-to-control-your-graphics-card-with-an-iphone--well--you-can-apos-t

Green, which keeps the power consumption to a minimum and saves trees and little baby polar bears; Standard which compromises performance and keeps the heat and noise down, and Overclock, which turns everything up to eleven, sucks enough juice out of national grid to power a small village in Dorset... and says to hell with the planet.

If you want to dig a little deeper you can monitor the core clock, memory clock, shader clock, GPU temperature and fan speed at the click of a button. µ

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Rubbish

And like all the other software that comes bundled from tiwanese companies im sure that this one will be as buggy as hell and take 4 years to load on startup too.

Ive never bought a piece of hardware that doesnt have some bundled crapware that breaks constantly, asus is the worst.

posted by : ijakings, 06 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Sure it's not an iPhone app?

Is it just me, or was the panel designed for the iPhone so that you can do overclocking on the go?

posted by : Hnnngh, 06 November 2008 Complain about this comment
Save the Planet

So Sparkle are gonna save the planet with software to overclock more Nvida cards

way to go........more dead graphic cards on their way to landfill soon then i guess

more Nvida GPU's gonna die

ps are Nvida partners conspireing to Bankrupt 
Nvida

posted by : Dorsetknob, 06 November 2008 Complain about this comment
looks a screenshot from an iphone..

yeah..

posted by : Waleed, 07 November 2008 Complain about this comment
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