Asus ATI Radeon HD3450 512 MB DVI/VGA/HDMI Low Profile AGP Video Card AH3450/DI/512MD2(LP)

This is an excellent card for a non-gamer.

The above reviewer has it backwards. The GPU is underpowered for gaming. The memory is more than the GPU can likely utilize but there MAY be some applications that can utilize more than 256MB, especially if you have a dual-monitor setup.

Other:
- Great drop-in for motherboards with underpowered on-board graphics.
- Not a modern gaming card though some games with low requirements, especially some older games may run fine.
- Dedicated memory instead of sharing onboard RAM. Very useful if you are extremely limited in onboard RAM (freeing up 128MB out of 1024MB does help)
- The UVD can decode AVC/H.264 and VC-1 1080p video (or lower). You likely need to install the free application "K-Lite" ([...]) and ensure DXVA is enabled. Very useful especially if your CPU was previously underpowered. Just watched Hellboy (1080p, MKV, AVC, DTS 6-channel). My X2-4800+ CPU used 65% of its cycles without DXVA...Read more

Quick, easy installation. I have a multiboot PC with XP, Vista Ultimate and Win7 Ultimate, and had no issues with install on any OS. Total installation time took less then 15 minutes. This card blew my old ATI Radeon 9600 right out of the water. Output is excellent. VGA was clear and crisp on my LCD monitor, as was the DVI, and the HDMI quality was flawless on my HDTV, and the digital audio through the HDMI was crystal clear. However, I did not know it had to be plugged into one of the Molex power cords. Since I had all of mine in use with the two optical drives and 6 hard disks, I just spliced in an extra connector I had from a dead PSU, and everything worked out pristine. Excellent card for the dollar.

Got it working on a Old Dell 4600 (Pentium IV HT), now my Home Theater PC. No need for a new power supply. I was a little worried about the audio over HDMI but it worked perfectly. Very satisfied.