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The Sparkle GeForce GTX 650 Ti Dragon Series ships in a small box featuring a high resolution render of a flaming dragon on the front. The company mention the overclocked, dual fan configuration bottom left.
The bundle includes a quick install guide and a software disc, featuring some free trial software. We recommend you get the latest driver from the Nvidia support site as often the drivers on these discs can be months out of date.
Sparkle have improved on the reference GTX660 ti design by incorporating a dual fan cooler. The cooler is all black, built around a dark blue PCB.
This card requires power from a single six pin PCI E connector.
Connectivity is catered for with a full sized HDMI port, VGA port and two DVI connectors. This is a dual slot cooler and hot air will be forced out the rear of the chassis, which is good to see.
The cooler is removed simply by unscrewing the four inner screws around the core. The cooler is based around a copper base with two heatpipes running into two separate racks of aluminum fins on either side. The card has 1GB of Hynix memory onboard.
The Sparkle GeForce GTX 650 Ti Dragon Series core is overclocked from 925mhz to 1006mhz, memory runs at 1,350mhz (5.4Gbps effective). We discussed the architecture earlier in the review.
