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so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a new product from ATI this

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is the the direct X11 radon 5450 so the

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5450 is pretty much a step down from the

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5600 series now ATI has been doing

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everything they possibly can it seems to release as many direct X11 cards as

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possible they are getting their whole lineup launched top to bottom and so

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this represents what is currently the bottom for their direct X11 card so this

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is a 512 Meg card you can see that here it has DVI VGA and HDMI outputs so it

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would be suitable as a media card if you wanted to Output to your TV and it has 1

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gig of hyper memory now hyper memory isn't something that we've seen for uh a

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little while but I mean ATI also hasn't released a new low-end card for a little

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while so hypermemory basically allows it to take use of your to make use of your

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system memory as well as the memory that's actually built onto the card so

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here's a quick uh rundown of the basic expects I'm not sure if you can read

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that so I'll help you it's a 5450 it's PCI Express 2.1 40 nanm process

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technology direct X11 Shader Model 5 etc

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etc I mean even with the gaming features that this car does have I wouldn't

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expect to be doing a whole lot of Hardcore gaming on it it is meant more

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as you know what and I've totally missed this it is meant more as a power saving

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green sort of initiative so one thing that ati's new 40 NM D radon 5000 series

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cards have done very well is they have made they have really cut down on the

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amount of power that they use when they're idling or when they're not

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actually processing 3D images so let's

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just see what we have for accessories here first of all we have a quick

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installation guide okay so they show you how to install the graphics card into

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the slot plug in plug in a p power at

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the back I can't imagine this having a six pin PCI Express plug on it but I

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guess we'll find out in a moment and then inside the quick installation guide

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you will find a driver DVD don't use that just download the latest ones off

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ati.com all right so let's get this open here

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here is the 5450 itself that is everything that's in the box so there's

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not a whole lot included in terms of accessories which in theory I guess you

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won't really need because you can see

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that the card includes pretty much all of the outputs that you'd want display

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part hasn't really caught on yet so whether you're running a digital monitor

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for with DVI your TV HDMI or an old CRT

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monitor VGA or really old LCD I suppose

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would also need VGA you should be pretty much covered now this card is passively

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cooled which is great for a low power

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card because that means a okay you're not getting a whole lot of heat put out

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of it so that means that heat put heat output from this card so it means it can

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be passively cooled and it also means that it's great for media applications

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because you're not going to have additional little noisy fans going in

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your PC it's also Al one fear point of failure I've seen so many low-end

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graphics cards fail over the years and the only thing that died was the little

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whiny fan on it so that's the only thing that's wrong with it but they're so hard

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to find a replacement for so that's kind of long- winded but yeah I love passive

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cards for that very reason this uses PCI Express 2.1 as they mentioned on the box

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so that's a standard PCI Express 16x connector you can see a couple of RAM

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chips at the back and I believe yeah there are a couple RAM chips not sure if

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you can see through there if I angle just right there a couple RAM chips in

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there as well as the GPU itself so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the

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powercolor Radeon 3450