AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards
Author: Ryan Smith | Date: February 4th, 2010
4 chips in 6 months reaches its end today, with the launch of the final chip in AMD’s Evergreen stack: Cedar. Cedar, the baby of the family, will be powering AMD’s bottom-tier cards. Today we’re seeing the the first of what we expect will be a couple of Cedar cards with the launch of the Radeon 5450.
From: leonsk [#2] 8 Feb 18:51 To: Cagey (KGWAGNER) [#1] 8 Feb 19:29
Just the ticket for HTPC video, particularly with the ATI focus on hardware and software for video playback. But sux for games, which are not really targeted for this loc-cost item. I saw a slew of them on the Newegg listing, including at least one under $50. Needed just that item about six months ago but got an inferior spec ATI low-rise one instead. I did note that none of 10-20 items shown at Newegg had a low-rise bracket option although the card is clearly designed to have a simple change to a double-wide low-rise.
From: Cagey (KGWAGNER) [#3] 8 Feb 19:34 To: leonsk [#2] 8 Feb 20:44
That's something I've noticed in other areas as well. They'll have headers on the cards for external connections they either don't provide or don't have room for on the mounting flange, but don't sell the mounting flange or cabling to use the output. TV tuner cards are good for those kinds of omissions as well. Why provide capabilities they won't/don't support? It's frustrating. It seems they want to be able to list things in the spec list, but not make those things available. Why bother, other than to mislead people into purchasing? It's cheating, if you ask me.
From: leonsk [#4] 8 Feb 20:53 To: Cagey (KGWAGNER) [#3] 9 Feb 1:14
It's the fault of the OEMs eg. Sapphire, XFX etc. that put their name on the box and are too cheap to throw in a two-cent (if that much) low-rise bracket. ATI has the reference design and it's all there, all they have to do is just make it to the plan, pack and ship. Fer sure, two cents extra over, say, 50,000 is really huge bucks saved, thus straight to the bottom line <grin>.