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Sparkle GeForce GTX 650 Ti Dragon Series review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 5, 2013 Featured Announcement, Graphics

The Sparkle GeForce GTX 650 Ti Dragon Series is a very capable graphics card at a very tempting price point. It goes to prove that you really don't need to spend £800 on a video card just to play games with high image quality settings on a 1080p panel.

We highlighted today that the Sparkle GTX650 Ti Dragon Series was able to power demanding Direct X 11 titles such as Alien V Predator at very high resolution settings. Other demanding Direct X 11 titles like Dirt Showdown were (borderline) playable at 1080p with the ULTRA preset and 8 x anti aliasing.

Obviously when we crank the image quality settings in the latest Direct X 11 titles such as Sleeping Dogs and Max Payne 3 the card shows bandwidth limitations. At this price we do expect to make some compromises and a little reduction in image quality settings push the frame rate back into the sweet zone.

The Sparkle GTX650 Ti Dragon Series graphics card is quiet, even when heavily loaded, and demands very little power at the socket, around 65 watts when gaming. Thanks to the adoption of a capable dual fan cooling system the card never runs hot either, hovering between the 55c and 60c zone under load, and dropping to under 30c when idle.

If you currently game on a 1080p panel and are limited in budget to less than £150, then the GTX 650 Ti deserves some serious consideration. The only issue right now is availability in the United Kingdom. Sparkle informed us before going live that stock has yet to reach our shores, but you can buy it from Mindfactory.de in Germany for around 130 euro. We would expect it to sell for around the £115-£120 mark in the UK when it arrives.

Pros:

  • Competitive pricing.
  • great gaming performance at 1080p.
  • quiet.
  • runs cool.
  • low power demand at socket.

Cons:

  • extensive competition between £120-£150.
  • poor availability.

Kitguru says: A quiet, competitively priced gaming card, ideal for budget oriented gamers at 1080p resolutions.

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Rating: 8.0.
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3 comments

  1. Dannie
    March 5, 2013 at 9:45 am

    good value, nice little product. Cant buy sparkle here however so no use to me.

  2. Tttt
    March 5, 2013 at 9:46 am

    Id like this for my system, but no site has it in stock – any news on availability?

  3. Union Flag
    March 5, 2013 at 9:47 am

    Id like the 660 ti tbh, worth the extra cash for a bit more power with the latest games.

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