Well today is the GeForce 9800 GT day and Sparkle showed us that this rebrand launch can be exciting after all. In fact hey announced no less than ten different GeForce 9800 GT based cards. We are not sure if the card we got is one of the illustrious ten, but this one looks interesting. The card is reference clocked, and that means 600/1800MHz for the GPU and memory respectively with the shaders running at 1500MHz speed, but it features a passive cooler with four heatpipes. This means as well that this is one very silent graphics card, and yeah we should say rather no noise solution. As this Sparkle cooling solution is using no fan at all to keep it running cool and utmost silent. - FudZilla

Sparkle GeForce 9800 GT Passive Cool Card Preview

Even if it is passively cooled, we saw this cooling solution from Sparkle can keep the GPU temperature under 80°C under load. The idle temperature is just under 58°C. The NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT comes normally in two flavors, as a 55nm version of the G92 GPU, dubbed G92b, but also in the guise of the good old 65nm version. The card we got is manufactured on 65nm, which means there is no support for HybridPower. The cooler looks great and it has no trouble keeping the 65nm GPU cool. But you can image already that it will be able to do wonders of the 55nm version once NVIDIA puts it on the market.