PowerColor CP RADEON AX4650 1GB DDR3 HDMI

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I play games on a 19" widescreen monitor .1440 by 900 . I play initial individual shooters like ut3 , fallout , Jerhico , Orange box , crisis . Runs crisis in Dx10 on mainstream with aa on four with no problems . Because I have went to xbox for my gaming I mainly got it for pic and video editing and it kills on that .makes video altering from format to format way quicker than my old 3650 . Tends to make the core two duo a little much more totally free for me to surf the net even though I'm altering an mpeg to an avi or dvd format . Overclocks well and will handle games in 720p on my television by means of the hdmi . Extremely handy outputs even has vga . Makes win7 appear excellent . Wished it was a tiny cooler searching . Would have liked a powercolor sticker for my case . Good card . Adore ATI . Now I'm a powercolor fan also . I was a sapphire and his fanboy .

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1080p output by way of HDMI, low energy consumption, quiet. None I bought this card to throw in an older box that I wanted to make into a household theater Pc. This card match the needs completely. The system needed no upgrades other than video because it was on board. I'd have to say I'm fairly pleased. Picture top quality appears excellent on my 55" LED Television and I haven't had any problems. It's a very good entry level HDMI capable card, absolutely nothing far more.

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Best bang for your buck- I'm making use of this to run StarCraft 2 in 1080p on medium settings and it appears good. Set up was a breeze. Runs all my older titles no issue. If you're searching to construct a decent Pc on a price range, appear no additional. none

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Good Price tag, Modest Profile, 1Gb DDR, HDMI. I'm a die challenging ATI fan, and I was searching for a inexpensive upgrade with HDMI to use my HD Television as a secondary monitor, this card did the trick. I'm not much on gaming so I can't say a lot about that performance smart, but the graphics level for standard use on the DVI and HDMI outputs is good. Slightly Buggy, When I very first installed this card the OS did not see it. I had to pull the card, reboot and uninstall the onboard Intel video drivers, then put the card back in. Only then did my Windows 7 (X64) see it. Installed newest drivers and software program that I downloaded from web site (never utilised included install disk) and the card was operating wonderful. I used the overdrive function on the Catalyst manage panel and let it run the auto decide overdrive settings. Took a long time, and got quite hot. Right after it set the new overdrive settings it ran effectively for about 2hrs. then decided to shut the method down. Went back to default settings and runs fine, I don't seriously require the overdrive for what I do so I'm excellent with it and the default settings nevertheless kicked up my Practical experience Index from a four.9 to five.7, and 6.6 on gaming.Unable to reinstall and run my onboard video along with this card which I was in a position to do with my older ATI X850XT below Windows XP 64Bit. System Info:Intel 945GNT MB, ICH7RIntel 960D Dual Core CPU, three.6Ghz4GB PC2 5400, 667Mhz2-Seagate 3160212A 320GB SATA2, 3.0GB Difficult Drives in a RAID- ConfigurationWindows 7 64Bit

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Uncomplicated to set up (WIN7), good functionality, rapid. None so far....

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The card worked well for a day. Good cost and good size. I will admit we had a actually terrible electrical storm the day I installed the card. When I turned it on the subsequent day it was dead. Manufacturer Response:Sorry for the inconvenience. If you shoot me an e-mail at hugo@powercolor.com and I give you much more info about submitting an RMA so that you can get the card replaced. -Hugo

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Cheap, particularly immediately after ฤ rebate, You don't have to upgrade your stock PSU, Pretty quiet, It performs effectively for modest gaming. It's not as small as I'd hope it'd be. I was hoping it'd be comparable to my older Powercolor Radeon 4550 card, but it's rather a bit larger. Not a large deal though. Also, Although I wasn't expecting a Huge performance jump from the 4550 I was at least expecting greater than a .1 achieve from the 6.3 Gaming Graphics score that I previously had...and I certainly didn't anticipate my Areo score to DROP from five.3 to five.2. WTH!? In any case It was still a decent deal since (assuming I get the rebate) this card will generally be a absolutely free upgrade due to the fact I made up the cost by promoting the 4550 I managed to overclock the GPU to 700MHZ with no detectable difficulties whatsoever; nevertheless as opposed to what some these other reviewers are reporting, I wasn't in a position to overclock the memory anyplace close to 600MHZ. Heck, I began receiving errors when I overclocked it to only 450! So I clocked it down to 435MHZ which almost certainly tends to make little difference though. Maybe I want to buy a bigger fan?

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With no a doubt, a substantial upgrade. I was stuck on my onbaord HD 4200 off my motherboard and this card has breathed new life into my desktop in general. Rather then offsetting anything on the processor and eating at my ram, this card's 1GB of DDR3 has blazed by means of every single 1080p video I've thrown at it. Extremely recommended. This is not a gaming card, don't expect it to be. You can play a few games like the Fallout series Ɠ and New Vegas), as well as some select titles at fairly higher settings and smoothly. But nowhere close to sufficient enough for a significant gamer. Installs good and straightforward. Just make certain to remove any components of what ever you had been utilizing just before, specially if it's ATI-related. Utilizing the ATI computer software I overclocked the memory speed to 600mhz, matching the core gpu clock. Runs quite smooth with temp's only going as high as 73 on relatively high workloads. Your mileage might differ but my case has decent airflow for it.

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Installed with no troubles, downloaded newest drivers from ATI Web-site. Enhanced my WEI Graphics went from a 4,four to a five., Gaming Graphics went from a five.5 to a 6.4more than the onboard 4200 None so far, have only had it installed for a day but so far so very good. I'm not a gamer so this card works fine for me and I got it for 24.95 immediately after rebate. NewEgg shipping is wonderful.

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Slim, incredibly quiet, good energy for typical user, non-gammer, 1GB DDR3 memory No Cons for my intended use I have to say I am beyond happy with this video card. It's so quiet it could be employed in an HTPC. It's speedy when viewing my digital photos, and my screen looks excellent. The colors just look to pop now. I am extremely pleased with my obtain. If it stops functioning for some cause, I will provide an additional critique.

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It was straightforward to set up. I would recommend downloading the most current driver package from AMD and not working with the supplied CD. This was the fastest Radeon card I could uncover that runs on a 350W PSU with no supplementary energy cables. So if you are like me and are stuck with a stock PSU, this is a very good acquireCard overall performance is decent. I am confident you currently know this isn't the prime of the line card. I don't have a ton of games, but it plays Mass Effect 2 at 1440x900 with all the settings on higher really properly (It's playable at 1680x1050, but not best). Battlefield Negative Business two I am employing 1280x800 at medium good quality with fantastic results. Something older than 2008, it must play perfect and something additional recent, just live with reduce resolution or reduce rendering effects good quality. Price fluctuates a lot. Depending on this week's cost, there could be some Nvidia cards that are a much better bang for the buck. Just make a decision if you are OK with "good enough" resolutions and graphics excellent or if you want to invest a ton in power supplies and pricey cards just about every year. If you are the former, then you will be satisfied with this card.

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Functions nicely. Second PowerCooler card employed for a construct no issue with with their solutions. None

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wow. I ought to have purchased 2. none

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This is a wonderful card if you are on a budget and seeking to get away from on board video. My Win 7 scores were actually poor till i added this card and freed up the program from the on board video. Required not power connector and runs very quiet. WoW plays on "good" settings nicely. DvD playback is good as nicely. The only con with this card is if you are hunting for high finish graphics. This card does not nice job but does not seem to be a match for state of the art games set on high. Be confident to download the drivers from the internet and not the disk. It will most probably save some hassle.

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Overclock this thing from 600MHz Core Clock to 700MHz and 400MHz Memory Clock to 650MHz. Window rating for this card six.7. Running SC2 at 1400x900 with low particulars at incredibly very good fps. You can have medium details on devoid of problem at a playable fps but i choose the extra fps on reduce facts. Looks type of cheap but not the overall performance! Which an after industry cooler, I bet u can overclock this infant even far more.

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When it performs, it operates nicely. 1st card I ordered had seriously undesirable video RAM errors and would typically freeze the personal computer with a solid colored screen. The replacement card I ordered did a small greater, but also had video RAM troubles, even though not as negative as the very first card. Tested using PassMark.

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I wanted to mention the excellent results I had overclocking this terrible boy. With the built in overclock tools in the driver, I was able to get it to run completely stable at 700Mhz GPU and 600Mhz Memory and it nonetheless only hits 62C temp below total load with the stock fan! Compares to the stock speeds, that took my windows Vista score from five. to 5.9 on gaming graphics and noticeably increased the framerates in my games. 62C is very cool, as quite a few cards run 70C stock, so that appears to indicate I have a lot more room to push it. This is in a affordable dell situation with 1 situation fan. Extraordinary! The Autotune in the Catalyst Handle Center didn't appear to like this card. It took like 45 minutes to finish and picked unstable settings that only enhanced my windows score to five.two and was not stable. I would keep away from working with the autotune and just experiment oneself.

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I know most peple would like to rave about finding a 5770 or 6850 or some other killer fps card. This card is fantastic for gaming it really appears like there is some fantastic headroom for overclocking. I know there are individuals out there saying what? But I play on native resolution with it nearly overclocked nearly to a hd 4670. I have the core overclocked 780 and the memory 850. woth no transform in tempature. Good fps when play ing dragons age high detail with four x aa Witht the overclock at very first I thought my gpu was fried. So I unscrewed the heatsink and placed it 90 degrees in the other path so now it covers the gpu and some of the ram. The Cooler is way to little for this card to truly cool it down if you can locate one more cooler get it. Strip the sapphire cooler those look to be wonderful. Anyways after the gpu fan and heatsink have been rotated it cools a lot much better even with a overclock heatsink on this solution. I jave it in a qpack micro atx case. If i had been to guess which I may not be far off I would say these are 4670 downclocked with anemic cooling. I mean I practically get stock 4670 settings. Why get a 5570 or even that matter 5670 these 4 hundred series cards will be fine till. direct 11 is in total use which by that time direct 12 will be out with windows 8. And who truly is utilizing direct 11. only a hand full of games really use it. Most organizations are nevertheless using direct 10.1

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It's ATi HD top quality to be sure! Quick, price range expense, and extremely good performer. Runs rings around the on-board HD 4200. (Get this card) NONE! I could have gotten more quickly, but I actually, seriously wanted this card with these specs. and I'm an ATi die-tough. Never ever, by no means had a video card die on me. I try to under no circumstances push my cards beyond their limit, except for perhaps brief testings, therefore, I've under no circumstances had a card die on me. Performs fine on Ubuntu 10.04 without the fglrx drivers for me. Streams video, flash movies, and every thing I want it to without having complaint which includes Nexuiz on the web beautifully.Coming from the PPC G4 architecture, this card is the bomb!!! I'll generally be an ATi & AMD fan for LIFE!!!AMD phenom 550 II X2 3.1Rosewill BlackboneRosewill green 430 watt PSUOCZ 2x2 GB platinum 4GB (No overclock @ 800 MHz)ASUS DVD DriveLite-On ATA DVD-ROMWD Green 1 TB SATAGigabyte MA785GM-US2Hati Power color 1GB 4650 DDR3Dell ൙ FPBig Fan of NewEgg and ATi & AMDFinishing my rebate info right now!

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As the previous critique mentioned, fantastic specs and good cost, in particular with the rebate, even though to be sincere I have not received my rebate check from Pc but, so I greater not "count my chickens"I've had mine for more than a month and it appears to operate excellent with no difficulties on XP Pro. I hope mine doesn't die in 6 months! No genuine cons that I can see...so far. At this value point, there is truly quite little to complain about. The card functions, the specs are wonderful, and powercolor CS has been, at least for me, quite responsive to my questions. Frankly, I don't know why Energy Color gets such a negative rap, there cards are fantastic, they have low prices, it just gets the job completed with little fanfare.I like the red colored board as well, adds some panache to my technique when set against the usual drab greens and browns!