Gadgetory

so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a new product from ATI this is the DirectX 11 Radeon 54 50 so the 54 50 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 DirectX 11 cards as possible they are getting their whole lineup launched top to bottom and so this represents what is currently the bottom for their DirectX 11 cards so this is a 512 Meg card you can see that here it has DVI VGA and HDMI output so it would be suitable as a media card if you wanted to output to your TV and it has one gig of hyper memory now hyper memory isn't something that we've seen for a little while but I mean ATI also hasn't released a new low-end card for a little while so hyper memory 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 rundown of the basic specs I'm not sure if you can read that too I'll help you it's a 54 50 it's PCI Express 2.0 140 nanometer process technology DirectX 11 shader model 5 etc etc I mean even with the gaming features that this card 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 I've totally missed this it has meant more as a power seat saving green sort of initiative so one thing that 80 is new 40 nanometer drive Radeon 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 ok so they show you how to install the graphics card into the slot plug in plug in a power at the back I can't imagine this having 6 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 forms 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 DisplayPort hasn't really caught on yet so whether you're running a digital monitor 4d booth 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 p-put out of it so that means that he 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 one fewer 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 it's kind of long-winded but yeah I love passive cards for that very reason this uses PCI Express 2.0 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 yep there are a couple RAM chips not sure if you can see through there if I Inglot just right there are a couple of RAM chips in there as well as the GPU itself so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the power color radeon 3450