[Kal-EL]

SPARKLE Introduces Calibre X250/X250G Graphics Card with Abundant OC Capability
SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced the Calibre X250 512MB/X250G 1GB GDDR3 Graphics Card with Calibre Dual Fly Fan and SPA Tune OC software, extending the DirectX 10 gaming performance of GeForce GTS 250 GPU to a new level, bringing vivid DX10 gaming graphics on a mainstream consumer computing platform.

Calibre X250/X250G Graphics Card features a 55nm chip process from TSMC. So It has groundbreaking speeds compared with ordinary GeForce GTS 250 graphics cards on market, the core speed is raised from 738MHz to 761MHz, the shader clock is raised from 1836MHz to 1911MHz, making it can deliver unrivaled graphics performance in the hottest games including Far Cry 2, Mirror’s Edge, and Call of Duty 5: World at War. The Calibre X250/X250G Graphics Card adopts Calibre non-reference PCB design, providing enhanced power circuitry with more phases of vGPU power circuit and vMem circuit. Also it only uses solid capacitors with lower power loss, providing more stable and longer product lifespan.

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[TheDarkN8]

I still say flash the bios of your card, bench it, flash it again, bench it, flash it a third time and get all them hwbot points since its the exact same card thru all these Nvidia renamings.

[Jeffro64]

Originally Posted by TheDarkN8

I still say flash the bios of your card

Gotta look into that.... is it hard to do?

[2chesapeakes]

Originally Posted by TheDarkN8

I still say flash the bios of your card, bench it, flash it again, bench it, flash it a third time and get all them hwbot points since its the exact same card thru all these Nvidia renamings.

I have never flashed a nvidia card is it hard to do. I have flashed my 4870x2's with ATI flash. Could you post a guide to flashing the Nvidia cards in the guide section.

[Kal-EL]

Long as you got a copy of the card's bios that you wanna flash too it shouldn't be too big a problem.

I haven't done it myself but heres the bios editor http://www.overclockaholics.com/foru...read.php?t=140

[FACE]

flashing NVidia cards is pretty easy. All you need is a floppy, NVflash, and Nbitor. MVtech has all the reference bios' you will need for both nvidia and ATI.

If the card uses the refernce pcb, it will not matter which bios you use, as long as it is the like. For example, you cannot flash a gtx260 into a gtx280 or anything like that, but you CAN falsh a vanilla evga gtx280 into an ssc, ko, or custom settings. if the reference pcb is not the same, or the bios chip is different, flashing with find you on the quick road to bricksville. For example, you most definitely cannot flash an EVGA bios into a Sparkle card.

We don't have an Nvidia flash guide here?

[Jeffro64]

Originally Posted by FACE411

We don't have an Nvidia flash guide here?

I don't think we do yet.... Is there another method other than floppy? I don't even have a floppy in my rig LOL.

[FACE]

Floppy is the best way. I keep a floppy in the closet (lol) and bring 'er out when i need to flash something. I wouldn't attempt a cd or windows flash on any hardware worth more than $10. Another reason is to make an easy executable "blind" flash floppy set up in case something goes wrong. If you need one I can send you one.

---my new favorite smiley

[Jeffro64]

Originally Posted by FACE411

Floppy is the best way. I keep a floppy in the closet (lol) and bring 'er out when i need to flash something. I wouldn't attempt a cd or windows flash on any hardware worth more than $10. Another reason is to make an easy executable "blind" flash floppy set up in case something goes wrong. If you need one I can send you one.

---my new favorite smiley

I hear ta, I'm sure I have one around here somewhere that I could use if need be. But thanks for the offer.