HIS Radeon HD 5450 Silence 512 MB (64bit) DDR3 HDMI DL-DVI (HDCP) VGA PCI Express 2.1 16x Video Card Retail (RoHS) H545H512

My Gateway has only 220W power supply. I bought this graphics card to stream Netflix and watch Blu-Ray. Fits perfectly inside the half-height Gateway case, almost touching the top surface. This graphic card is passively cooled (no fan). When idle, temperature will hover 75C. While watching Blu-Ray, temp reached 85-88C. While playing Crysis Warhead, it reached 90-95C. Plays well on Crysis Warhead at highest settings. Didn't want to play too long because of overheating concerns.

I hooked the HDMI to my 1080P Sharp 52" TV. There was this black border 1-1/2" all four sides of TV. You have to adjust the scaling option in Catalyst Control Center to zero. Go to "Desktop and Display" in CCC and right click the monitor icon on lower left and choose "configure". Then go to "Scaling Option" to adjust to zero. This solves the problem. Note: This problem only occurs when you hook up the HDMI to a 1080P TV.

The 3D graphics (Windows Experience Index) went...Read more

I purchased this product to enable the CrossFireX technology on my new Gigabyte motherboard. However, after much back and forth with Gigabyte (via email and telephone)and not being able to "enable" the technology by using this specific card per their own advertisement, I discovered per ATI that the techonology was not meant to work with my OS, Windows 7 (even though the Gigabyte tech claims he was able to "enable" CrossFireX in ATI's Catalyst Control Center; however, he did not mention the OS he was using). Per HIS (the manufacturer of this card), this card is meant to be bridged with another card for CrossFireX technology; instructions do not mention enabling the technology with the motherboard).

In any case, I discovered that I did not need to enable what could not be enabled...this video card gave me the speed I was looking for all by itself. It is quiet (don't even hear it running) and it does not have to "think" about or take an annoying amount of time to render...Read more

I bought this card to create a Home Theater PC for my living room out of an old workstation. I installed it in a Core2 Duo 3.0 Ghz machine with 4GB of ram. It plays Hi-def with ease now. It even plays games pretty well, and plays games from 2009 and before awesome. Newer games like Test Drive Unlimited play but at lower resolutions. Slightly older games like Burnout Paradise play in beautiful HD with effects turned on. But really I bought this card for HD video, it playing games at all is a perk to me. It doesn't hurt that it supports DX11, though. It's temperature under load seems to stay about 70C, and I love how silent it is without a fan. That does mean absolutly no overclocking options, though. Power consumption stays low, though. Overall, for about 50 bucks, this card is excellent and doing more than I expected from it.