The HD5450 is the current low end card from ATI and here is XFX’s incarnation of it. Is it a good card and more importantly can it give you half decent performance from it’s lowly price of < £50?
Archive for the ‘Graphics Cards’ Category
Review: 1GB XFX 4870 Graphics Card (HD-487A-ZDFC)
On August - 12 - 2009
The ATI 4800 series graphics cards have proven very popular and so has my review of the Gigabyte 4850 OC from back in Nov08. Here I’m reviewing one of the bigger brothers of the 4850. This 4870 is one of the first ATI offerings from the well respected XFX board partner.
Review: Zalman FS-V7 Red LED Graphics Card Cooler
On July - 8 - 2009
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The standard coolers fitted to high-end graphics cards are notoriously poor, often with disappointing thermal performance at significantly raised noise levels. So replacing the cooler with an after-market model like the Zalman FS-V7 is quite common. But does this model live up to Zalman’s established reputation? |
Article: Performance of PCI slot graphics cards
On March - 11 - 2009
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I had a request from a family member the other day to help upgrade a PC to run a newly purchased PC game. The game is actually from 2004 and so isn’t the most PC demanding but needed something better than integrated Intel Extreme graphics. Unfortunately due to the lack of a dedicated graphics slot I found myself searching for PCI graphics… |
Review: Gigabyte HD4850 1Gb pre overclocked – (GV-R485OC-1GH)
On November - 15 - 2008
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My most recent graphics card purchase and therefore review, is an ATI Radeon HD4850 from Gigabyte. This card is the new 1Gb version which comes fitted with a Zalman cooler and pre-overclocked to 700mhz on the core, for reference the part number is GV-R480OC-1GH. |
Review: XFX GeForce 7900GS Graphics Card
On July - 29 - 2008
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The Nvidia 7900GS graphics card is available at rock bottom prices these days, so I bought one to see how it copes as a card for a spare PC. The aim is to have it run reasonable frame rates and resolutions in common multiplayer LAN games. |
