ASUS EAH6450 SILENT SILENT/DI/1GD3(LP) with AMD HD 6450 GPU which includes integrated support for HDMI, deep color, and 7.1 digital surround sound over Native HDMI. Low profile design with low profile bracket bundled fits end users’ mini home theater PC. 0dB Silent heat sink, which offers the best home theater enjoyment.
$ 32.66
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A graphic card planned for your desktop,
If you have an integrated graphic card on your motherboard, radeon 6450 will be a good choice to add it.
For example, my desktop pc is a pentium e5800, 4 gb RAM, 500 HDD, power supply 275 Watts. I bought it recently because i use it for office work and sometimes a game. When i put it windows experience index increased from 3,4 to 4,5 in windows aero and from 3,4 to 6,1 in gaming graphics! You will notice that your memory ram use will be low than before and your HD video performance will get better. The graphic card consumption is very low and temperature is around 50 C (122 F) (the temperature is showed by smartdoctor software that it is included). Of course, radeon 6450 it is not for heavy gamers or full resolution games but it is more powerful by far than my GMA x4500HD intel integrated graphic card.
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|Perfect choice for an older, small-form factor computer,
I have an HP Slimline mini desktop dating from about 2009. (HP S5310t – but the slimline HPs from that era all used a similar form factor). The video card died when the fan on it seized up, and so I found myself shopping for a replacement. Going shopping for a video card for an older computer with a very small form factor is definitely a little unnerving.
On a computer this old, I am not exactly looking for serious gaming performance. Anything out there is a few generations ahead of what I had, so relative power is not the key question. Instead, my main concerns were:
(1) Will it actually fit in my small case?
(2) Will it actually work once I get it in there?
As for making it fit, this card is “Low profile ready”. What that means is it won’t fit a small computer case when it comes out of the box, but they give you the pieces you need to make it fit. Basically the little metal plate at the back of the card where you plug the card into the monitor cable is too long, but they give you two shorter plates that you can swap out for the big one.
One short connector plate is for the newer, digital connectors (DVI & HDMI) and the second is for the more basic, VGA connector. You can actually have all three connectors available, even when the card is installed in a small computer, just as long as there are two open slots on the back of the case next to each other. The cable that connects the VGA out to the card is long enough that you can reach the second opening in the back of the case. I happened to have that space available on my computer and so I set it up that way. All you need to swap out the back plates is a small diameter Phillips head screwdriver and some needle-nose pliers for the little bolts that hold it to the card. This is not a task for people terrified of anything remotely mechanical, but it is not hard to do if you are at least modestly handy.
Of course, making it fit is not just about the shorter plate on the back of the card, it also means that the card has to fit INSIDE the computer. A really, really fat video card with huge heat sinks all over it might not have enough space to fit inside a mini tower case.
Because this card doesn’t have a fan and just uses a big heat sink to keep it cool, I was a little worried it would be too fat. But it is really barely thicker than the thickness of the back plate, and so it ought to fit pretty well everywhere. It really doesn’t look much bigger than the card it replaced. I definitely like the idea of no separate fan on the video card, since the failure of the last fan was what caused me to go shopping for a new card in the first place. No fan means one less thing to wear out and break. It also makes the computer slightly quieter.
Anyway, I got the thing physically into the computer with no real hassles. So now it was time to reconnect the monitor cable, boot up the computer and brace myself for the possibility of a very rough ride. When you are installing a new video card, you are messing around with a lot drivers and so forth in the guts of Windows, and things can easily go south on you.
Turns out the install was actually fairly quick and painless. I have a 64 bit, Windows 7 OS, and for me the install actually went very smoothly. Just leave it alone and let it auto-start. It chugs along and requires a reboot but that’s it. I was a little worried that my PCI Express x16 (1.0) bus was going make this newer, Express 2.1 card unhappy, but it seems fine. PCI Express is backward compatible, it just means the card runs a bit slower.
Before installing anything I did take the step of uninstalling the device driver software for the older card, so there was nothing but the built in windows drivers on the system when I installed this. They don’t tell you to do this, but it is a very good idea to clear out any old drivers to avoid driver conflicts.
Whole process from opening the box to finishing the install took maybe 30 minutes, including installing the new back plates on the card. Not bad at all.
Now that all is up and running, it comes with a monitor utility that shows both capacity of the card and heat. Pushing full HD video out to a 24 inch monitor video through the DVI connector runs the card at roughly 30-50{b81fbfd19e1fca5890798868c0714c408bbd5ec471654b6f9630c0fffa6e7eb3} of capacity and the temp seems to be well within the acceptable range. I haven’t done long-term studies of the heat profile yet, but since I am mainly going to be using this computer for business productivity stuff and rarely even using it for video, I am not too worried about it. I think, at least for those light-duty users like me, a card with no fan on it is definitely the way to go.
You can actually overclock the card using the software they provide. I am not going to bother since I don’t need every bit of performance here, but it is nice to see that they will let you push the card to…
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|Great mid price Graphics Card,
It’s good for the price and installs and is low profile. I think that you can find better sales for other graphics cards but this is a decent card for the price. Look for something that is 128 bit though. Prices are dropping on other high end cards. Also, since the card is low profile, it does not come with a fan. It has one of those cooling vents for more surface area and to release heat. That is the trade off of it being low profile. Since is doesn’t have a fan it gets hot at the default clock but isn’t much of a problem. Once you overclock, then it starts to get real hot. The program utility that comes with it is pretty cool though and shows you the temperature as well as makes it easy for you to change the clock settings.
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