Sapphire Flex Radeon HD6450 625MHZ 1GB DDR3 Dual Link DVI-I HDMI Sl DVI-D LP Fanless Video Card

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I bought one of these for an employee of our company who wants to rock 3 monitors. She does a lot of stuff so it's justified.I will caution you on one thing: I installed this in a Dell Optiplex 790 which only takes half height cards. The problem comes with Dell's tool-less design. The card will seat fine but when you go to close the gate that holds the cards in the DVI connectors are really close to the gate guard. Sure enough, when I went to plug in the DVI cables they wouldn't fit. I removed the plastic handle on the gate guard and then they barely fit. In fact, they rubbed against the guards metal face. All they had to do was move the DVI connectors toward the motherboard a quarter of an inch and everything would have been fine. Small potatoes, though.Keep in mind too, that if you need to, you can always cut down the DVI cable ends to a certain extend. I was prepared to if it was necessary.The PC booted up to one screen, the drivers were installed and the PC was rebooted. Through the Catalyst Control Center the desktop was extended over the three monitors no problem.The card claims it needs a 400 watt PS but it worked perfectly with the opti's small 250 watt unit. Of course, the computer isn't used for gaming. If you plan to do light gaming (the only gaming recommended with this card) then it's best to meet the card's requirement.One star off for the placement of the DVI plugs but that shouldn't affect most people.

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Bought this for a video/presentation control computer for a church. Three video outputs: DVI-D to the local monitor, DVI-I for the main video feed (analog VGA), and HDMI for a second projector (stage confidence screen). Runs 720p video to both DVI-I and HDMI without breaking a sweat. Plus it's passively cooled so completely silent. Sapphire Flex is one of the only video card series available that will handle three independent video outputs simultaneously.