XFX ATI Radeon HD 4650 512 MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Card HD465XYAF2

This card runs so smoothly and it was easy to install, I am very happy i bought this.. But there are now better cards available and buying this will probably benefit the casual gamer, if you really want to shred on the newer titles I suggest you go with a newer card. Still this baby rocked my world and I have no regrets, oh! and it runs well with a 300W power supply.

Having the need to replace my existing PCI Express video card, I happened to see the HD 4650 on Amazon. The price was very attractive for the good features that this card offered; in other stores the same video card was priced about ten to twenty dollars more. The HD 4650 supports DirectX 10.1 and it supports HD playback. The card also has 512MB of on board video memory; some other models have 1GB.

The main thing that I was looking for in a video card was that it needed to be a 1/2 length video card that could fit in my custom built system; the interior of my computer chassis is designed a certain way where I can only install half length video cards. My system is configured with an ASUS motherboard, an AMD 64bit Athlon 3700+ 2.22GHz processor, and 2GB of RAM; pretty slow specs compared to the faster configurations in the market. I also did not want to spend the extra money to upgrade all of the main components in my system just to get a speed increase. Instead, I just...Read more

It's a decent card. a noticable improvement from my radeon 3450. If I bought anything newer, it was going to force me to get a new power supply unit. I've turned the settings up pretty high on all of my games now. I only have a few games(mass effect, red alert, flight simulator, star wars:empire at war, portal and sins of a solar empire)

If you're on a budget this is a good card, but if you can afford it, go with a radeon hd 5770 or better.