VisionTek Radeon 5450 1GB DDR3 (DVI-I, HDMI, VGA) Graphics Card – 900860

There Are Drivers for 32-bit XP!
I just got this for My 11 year old Dell E520, and btw this is the second VisionTek video card I purchased. It arrived in great shape. I had it hooked up in no time, AND working beautifully with all three onboard operating systems; Linux, Win7 and XP. Windows 7 gives me an experience index of 4.2 but that’s a lot better than the 3.2 I was getting before. The quality of the gaming in XP mode is fantastic now. Once again though, there were errors when I tried to install the included drivers (the drivers on the CD are only for Windows 7 and above). Like the first time when I bought my HD 7750 for an HP product, I only got them to install by using Magic Disk to create a copy of the CD in ISO format first. Once you’ve made a virtual CD, mounting the image in a virtual drive and installing the card from there is a snap. If you can, try to have the newest drivers already downloaded from AMD’s website- that may shorten your installation experience as I was forced to install twice. All in all I am pleased with the quality of the products I have purchased from VisionTek, and I have no problem whatsoever suggesting their products to someone else.

Okay for the price
I don’t play a lot of video intensive games with this card; I purchased it because I needed a decent card to replace my old graphics card that died. When I installed it, Windows installed its own set of generic drivers, but those were only passably accurate (typical for Windows). I went to the website for the manufacturer and downloaded the drivers for the card.My only complaint is that on its own, the card changed to 32Bpp display, and picked a weird format that reset all the files I have on my desktop. Not cool. Worse, when I told it to go back to 16Bpp to restore the display I was used to, it resumed the 32Bpp format without my intervention. Fortunately, the display reset kept, but I’m not sure I care for device drivers that pick what some engineer who doesn’t know my rig should be using. At the moment, it’s working and I can use my computer to surf the web and for my writing. My next task with my odd jobs is to increase storage (of my 3 1Gig drives, 2 are over the Microsoft limit of 90 percent full) so that’s next on the upgrade, then I will finally have to leave behind Windows 7 64bit Professional, which has let me customize my desktop to what I want, not what Windows thinks I should have, and hate having to link Windows to some nonexistent gaming account. I also really hate that solitaire requires a *()*))* subscription to be advert free, games that have been free since the days of Windows 3.1. When I first upgraded to Windows 10, it was brand new and part of the process, Windows started moving my data files to a nonexistent cloud account (i.e., yes, it was deleting my data files, some of which are new gone forever). But I have to migrate because my Kindle for PC quit synchronizing with my working Windows 7 Pro, so I can’t read on my PC. At least I still have my tablet.Anyway, it seems to be a decent card (hard to tell after 30 days how it will perform in the long haul, but I opened up my machine, popped out the old card and put in the new on in 15 minutes. This has a passive heat sink like the old one, but instead of 256Meg of RAM on the old one, there’s a full 1Gig of DDR3 onbaord. I have extra fans to keep everything inside cool, so that’s a consideration with passive heat sinks — making sure there’s good air flow to keep the inside temps at a reasonable level (card CPU keeps steady around 35-37C; low temps are important for long-term card endurance). If you are unfamiliar, Piriform software has a free version called SPECCY, a PC program which will analyze your system and tell you what your hardware is, what OS, and it includes dynamic temperature reading of any CPUs and graphic cores.I rated tech support and gaming at 4* as I am giving them the benefit of the doubt. I don’t play video intensive games and I did the install myself without issues, and then found the website, downloaded and then installed the drivers on my own — so take those two scores with a serious grain of salt.

Slower Graphics and videos but a good replacement for grandfathered computers.
I bought this with the intention of replacing a video card from 2007 that had two DVI Outs. It’s running on an older Core Quad Duo machine that is essentially a DAW used for music production. It outputs DVI, VGA and HDMI. Note that the VGA will not convert to DVI. I tried a simple adapter and my monitor would not detect the signal, so I had to use a standard VGA. No issue there. What I noticed with Saved videos, especially Mp4’s, load time was a bit longer even though there is 1gb DDR ram onboard. Just a slower processor perhaps. Windows Media Player seems to take a bit longer caching files, however other apps not as long. As far as reliability goes, so far so good. No BSD issues as my other video card had done as it began to fail over time.

Exactly what I was looking for: low-cost fanless graphics card. In fact, this was the lowest cost option I could find and priced much lower than the next best option. Too bad the Amazon description has incorrect information about max resolution which has obviously mislead some buyers. The vendor description clearly states the correct info (see screenshot). I plugged it in and it just worked, for booting Linux and Windows.

It is inexpensive, easy to install and runs fairly cool so it works well for my purposes.I put this card in a headless server and used it to install Ubuntu 20.04 and openssh-server. If all goes well I will never connect it to a monitor again ;)ps. Amazon – I have no idea what “thickness” means in your rating system. If you mean thicc, that is something else…

Carte graphique fonctionne parfaitement et le suivit par le vendeur au top je recommande.