The Modfathers checked out the Sparkle FX5500 Graphics Card

Sparkle is one of those companies that has been with us for sometime now producing solid, inexpensive and no frills products. Established in 1982 they have consistently expanded without investing in the monster performing and monster expensive solutions. This has meant that they have to some extent been side tracked by the media who target the flash and exquisite, though not by the OEM market or those like me who exist in the Computer Fairs ( big in the UK ). This however changed when they released the FX5900XT which really is a stonking card, and for the two weeks that I had it, quickly became my favorite nVidia based card.

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