so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a new product from ATI this
is the the direct X11 radon 5450 so the
5450 is pretty much a step down from the
5600 series now ATI has been doing
everything they possibly can it seems to release as many direct X11 cards as
possible they are getting their whole lineup launched top to bottom and so
this represents what is currently the bottom for their direct X11 card so this
is a 512 Meg card you can see that here it has DVI VGA and HDMI outputs so it
would be suitable as a media card if you wanted to Output to your TV and it has 1
gig of hyper memory now hyper memory isn't something that we've seen for uh a
little while but I mean ATI also hasn't released a new low-end card for a little
while so hypermemory basically allows it to take use of your to make use of your
system memory as well as the memory that's actually built onto the card so
here's a quick uh rundown of the basic expects I'm not sure if you can read
that so I'll help you it's a 5450 it's PCI Express 2.1 40 nanm process
technology direct X11 Shader Model 5 etc
etc I mean even with the gaming features that this car does have I wouldn't
expect to be doing a whole lot of Hardcore gaming on it it is meant more
as you know what and I've totally missed this it is meant more as a power saving
green sort of initiative so one thing that ati's new 40 NM D radon 5000 series
cards have done very well is they have made they have really cut down on the
amount of power that they use when they're idling or when they're not
actually processing 3D images so let's
just see what we have for accessories here first of all we have a quick
installation guide okay so they show you how to install the graphics card into
the slot plug in plug in a p power at
the back I can't imagine this having a six pin PCI Express plug on it but I
guess we'll find out in a moment and then inside the quick installation guide
you will find a driver DVD don't use that just download the latest ones off
ati.com all right so let's get this open here
here is the 5450 itself that is everything that's in the box so there's
not a whole lot included in terms of accessories which in theory I guess you
won't really need because you can see
that the card includes pretty much all of the outputs that you'd want display
part hasn't really caught on yet so whether you're running a digital monitor
for with DVI your TV HDMI or an old CRT
monitor VGA or really old LCD I suppose
would also need VGA you should be pretty much covered now this card is passively
cooled which is great for a low power
card because that means a okay you're not getting a whole lot of heat put out
of it so that means that heat put heat output from this card so it means it can
be passively cooled and it also means that it's great for media applications
because you're not going to have additional little noisy fans going in
your PC it's also Al one fear point of failure I've seen so many low-end
graphics cards fail over the years and the only thing that died was the little
whiny fan on it so that's the only thing that's wrong with it but they're so hard
to find a replacement for so that's kind of long- winded but yeah I love passive
cards for that very reason this uses PCI Express 2.1 as they mentioned on the box
so that's a standard PCI Express 16x connector you can see a couple of RAM
chips at the back and I believe yeah there are a couple RAM chips not sure if
you can see through there if I angle just right there a couple RAM chips in
there as well as the GPU itself so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
powercolor Radeon 3450