GIGABYTE ATI Radeon HD6450 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI Low Profile PCI-Express Video Card GV-R645OC-1GI
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- Powered by AMD Radeon HD 6450 GPU and Integrated with industry’s best 1GB DDR3 memory and 64-bit memory interface
- GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 MaterialsUltra Cooling – Low RDS MOSFET DesignLow Power Loss – Ferrite Core Choke DesignLonger Life – All Solid Capacitor Design
- Gold Plated HDMI for optimum signal transfer between connections
- Core Clock: 675MHzMemory Clock: 1600MHz
- Features DVI-D / D-Sub / HDMI outputs with HDCP protection
- GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Materials Ultra Cooling – Low RDS MOSFET Design Low Power Loss – Ferrite Core Choke Design Longer Life – All Solid Capacitor Design
- Minimum System Power Supply Recommended 400W
GIGABYTE AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.1 Low Profile Graphics Card
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GIGABYTE ATI Radeon HD6450 1 GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI Low Profile PCI-Express Video Card GV-R645OC-1GI
List Price: $ 71.00
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DVI Port Does Not Work – VGA and HDMI Work Fine,
This is a great card for the price I paid (about $40). The VGA and HDMI ports on this card work well. I recommend windows 7 64-bit users stay away from the installation disk included in the kit; skip it altogether. The card will install fine using windows drivers and VGA port. Next, go to the AMD website and download the Catalyst Console Center and updated drivers.
This is not a three port card, as far as I can tell. I am having no luck getting the DVI port to engage. I am reading now that other owners of this card cannot get the DVI port to work. If you need DVI, recommend getting an HDMI to DVI cable here at Amazon.
I give it a three star rating instead of higher because of the following:
1. Installation disk reverted windows 7-64bit drivers to non-working state. I had to remove the card and install the AMD catalyst console and drivers program, then reinstall the card.
2. Cannot locate DVI port connected monitor (VGA and HDMI only)
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|Not the upgrade I had expected,
UPDATED 11-28-2011
I originally brought this card to replace an ATI HD4650 that I had originally had in my son’s tower (I instead put it in his mother’s Dell Preceseion 490)and got this card for him instead. The Windows Aero rating in Windows 7 was 5.1 (out of a possible 7.9) and the game graphics was 6.3 (out of a possible 7.9) the Windows 7 rating was almost the same as the ATI HD 4650 (5.1 and 6.4 respectivily).
While the card looks good the card itself is mainily aimed at the Home entertainment PC and Moderate gaming only, any intense gaming and you will notice the video starting to Lag (I.E. Star Wars – Forces Unleashed I and II) I might as well just saved me the 55 bones and stuck with the ATI HD 4650. I will just probably pass this on to my daughters new Pink “Barbie” Computer that I will be building for her and go with a Nvidia EVGA card instead (Ended up buying the EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2048 MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 2DVI/Mini-HDMI SLI Ready Graphics Card, 02G-P3-1559-KR instead, cost 3 times more than this card but will worth the price).
Overall, if you are looking for a good Video Card for Home Media watching and Moderate gaming then this card maybe what you need for the buck, However if your looking to upgrade your existing card for something better than you may want just keep looking.
System Specs: My Sons Desktop
Intel Core Dou 2 Quad socket 775, 6mb cache processor
Intel DP43TF MOBO
8GB of DDR2 800mhz PC6400 RAM
750W Antec PSU
750GB SATA HDD
24bit 5.1 Creative Sound Card
1GB intergrated Intel NIC
ATI Radeon HD 6450 PCI-E 1GB
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (64 Bit)
27inch LCD VE276Q ASUS Monitor.
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|Run away run away!,
I can’t fault the Gigabyte hardware here, but the ATI drivers and software that you’re forced to use are just terrible. I don’t play games and so don’t need graphics horsepower – just need two ports for a pair of monitors (1 VGA, 1 digital). After a few months of use, the resolution the higher resolution was set to was wrong after a boot. And, the icons were scrambled on the desktop. After days of digging, I decided it was the ATI drivers/software and replaced the card with a different brand that used Nvidia chipset. End of all problems – all is back to normal. Except, the ATI software wouldn’t un-install and an AMD service that was sucking up CPU cycles was left. This was my second and last ATI based card – the other was just as troublesome. Apparently, the Radeon chipset performs well for gamers, but it’s nothing but trouble for the rest of us. Avoid at all costs.
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