Diamond 4350PE1G ATI Radeon HD 4350 1GB DDR2 PCIE Video Card

I really tried, but had no luck with this card. The first card I received was DOA. The second card seemed to install just fine. I have a CoreDuo system using an Intel MB running Vista. I stream DVD video from a central server on my network as one of this machines primary uses - and this is where the card fails. I've never seen Vista get a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) before this card. Now, to be fair, this card seemed to do fine in every other aspect other then streaming hires video. The performance benchmark on Vista scored a 3.5 and the card seemed to handle my dual 1080p monitors just fine. I contacted AMD support and supplied them with all the information they asked for (which involved running some different applications to create system spec reports). They concluded this was a problem with Vista. Sooo, I reinstalled Vista and spent 2 days running Update to get the system back to 100%. I reinstalled the latest video driver for this card and then tested out streaming...Read more

Purchased this card from Amazon and received their usuall excelent service, but had to return it after 10 frustrating days of trying to install it. Solicited help from the manufacturer and my companies IT gurus all to no avail. Product is actually not even listed on the manufacturers web site yet so it may be too early in the product life cycle to get reasonable results form it.

I've now updated this review and agree with the other reviewers. Here's the skinny:

I bought this card to put in my Dell Vostro back in December, and everything worked fine THEN.

THE GOOD: It fit easily into the PCI Express Bus connection, and initially getting the software to setup & work on my main computer monitor was a breeze.

THE BAD: The software is a bit complicated when you want to get a SECOND monitor to work. You have to "tweek" through the settings until it works correctly.

THE UGLY [updated]: The first thing disappointing about this was the overall display speed, as it has quite some lag. After I had it a couple of months and some windows updates, playing .mpg videos caused the computer to crash! The only way to "fix" it is to decrease video acceleration to the "3rd notch" in the advanced display properties in Control Panel. This completely removes smooth video playback :(

EVEN UGLIER: More recently, ATI...Read more