Sparkle bundles custom overclocking software

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:

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