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Hey guys, this looks like a nice deal. Will this work with my cd-rom and nero?

Dear Mr. Fart-

You have way too much time on your hands.

Ben, I've never heard of "NewEgg.comNew York & Company". Quit drinking so much.

It's $15 after rebate now! I am going to get one.

At $15, this is an excellent deal. This card comes with a low profile bracket, an HDMI output(with integrated surround sound over HDMI), and full HD video acceleration, making it an excellent card for a HTPC.

The only downside is that it doesn't have a passive cooler. However, none of the newegg reviews on this card complain about the fan on the card being noisy, so maybe it's quiet enough for a HTPC. Really, at this price, you can't go wrong.

Of course, this is not a gaming card. If you plan on playing any modern video games, you should get at least a GeForce 9600GSO 768mb card for $40. Of course, if you can spend a bit more, there are definitely better cards available.

I'm just waitin' till the 4770's come back in stock.

Hey guys, love the great comments.

If I add an orb fan will I have to remove the original fan? Is it possible to series parallel 3 fans?

I think those titties have more brains than you, DogFart.

For a HTPC you might as well just start with a board having integrated video, including the output ports you want. HDMI sound for example has historically been better in something like a 8200 chipset based board.

Funny thing is they promote that it's overclocked, as if someone buys this level of card to get 7FPS instead of 6.5FPS they'd settle for otherwise.

You might find you can't get sound over HDMI working, a reviewer mentioned that as well. The better solution if you need that feature for a HTPC would be a Geforce 8 or 9 series IGP chipset based motherboard. I think there was an article on Anandtech awhile back about this issue, it might be in the following article but I'm too lazy to read through it all to be sure: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3430

The issue of the fan on it isn't just noise level, it's that small, thin, cheap, higher RPM fans like this tend to be the shortest lived components in a system, so eventually you'll probably have to replace it. Since reviewers claim it's quiet it probably isn't very high RPM, but it's probably still higher than 3000RPM.


No convenient way to mount a replacement fan alone so you're either paying more to replace the whole 'sink, replacing whole card, or getting creative with fan mounting options like taking the 'sink off and drilling holes in the sides of the fans at the 4 corners so you can strap the fan down with wire ties or similar.

On the other hand, whether you have an immediate use for this card or not it is always handy to have a spare video card around, though personally I'd rather a low end PCI card as it is more versatile in what it can be placed in, and many of them use so little power they barely even need a passive heatsink at all, though if it's too old the ramdac isn't fast... [Truncated]

Darn that's a ton of talk on a card that if and when the fan does go you'll probably just toss it... Good God it's $15

I hear a bunch of talk in older forms that discuss issues of no sound over HDMI, but honesty it seems more about someone using the incorrect adapter, didn't install the HDMI driver, didn't disable in BIOS, and such. I find nothing relevant to this in the last 4-5 months.

If your building a new system then by all means pick any of the various IGP Mobo's; while for those wanting a quick, cheap, and capable upgrade to some older CPU/Mobo combo, what the heck this will give some legs to your system.

i picked up the asus 3450 a few months ago for my vostro 220 and have been using it as my htpc. no issues with sound via hdmi. the only problem i'm seeing is some horizontal lines watching movies from time to time...not sure what that is about. i have this connected to my sammy ln46a650. i first tried running the res at 19xx by 1080 but i couldn't read the small font so i had to change it to xxx by 720. (i can remmeber the actual resolutions). any thoughts on the horizontal lines anyone?

Try going back to 1920x1080 and increase the DPI (in windows vista/7 in control panel search for DPI) - it will make the text bigger and reduce the resize delay which can cause flicker.

Hope that helps

thanks bmndibb2!

How about some real info from professionals,

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-graphics,2296-2.html


Thank you.

<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Casecutter wrote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Darn that's a ton of talk on a card that if and when the fan does go you'll probably just toss it... Good God it's $15 </td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">

You're getting close to my point, how much fiddling, repairing, reordering receiving installing testing do you really want to do to save a couple bucks by buying a card with a poor fan and having it fail later?

<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I hear a bunch of talk in older forms that discuss issues of no sound over HDMI, but honesty it seems more about someone using the incorrect adapter, didn't install the HDMI driver, didn't disable in BIOS, and such. I find nothing relevant to this in the last 4-5 months.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">

Because you didn't look? A reviewer for this particular card even wrote it, as have several others, possibly everyone with a certain combo of parts. The point is, IF that is an important feature it would make no sense to buy a product where people have already mentioned having problems, versus one where people have mentioned success.

<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">If your building a new system then by all means pick any of the various IGP Mobo's; while for those wanting a quick, cheap, and capable upgrade to some older CPU/Mobo combo, what the heck this will give some legs to your system.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">

The performance difference is pointless. If the system is pretty old it's due for CP... [Truncated]

I entered the code at the "Promo Code" field, but Newegg didn't accept. Was I suppose to use the code somewhere else? Is it expired? Please help. Thanks.

<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>dave_c wrote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">do you really want to do to save a couple bucks by buying a card with a poor fan and having it fail later?.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">I read the Eggview and most praises the fan, why do you assume the position that this will or has to fail the moment you install it. So, from that logic that 9400 that Ben list at $50 is a better fan and last longer? I'm from the old school, so modding or fixing isn't a challange for this Ghetto Dog.
<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Because you didn't look? A reviewer for this particular card even wrote it, as have several others, possibly everyone with a certain combo of parts. The point is, IF that is an important feature it would make no sense to buy a product where people have already mentioned having problems, versus one where people have mentioned success..</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody">I would never condem something based on one Eggview. I searched the web for "ATI HDMI sound issue problems" and notice nothing exceptionaly glaring other than what I mentioned. Doesn't sound like you did... one Egg-head coo-ment and you're off in left field!
<table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">The performance difference is pointless. If the system is pretty old it's due for CPU/board/memory upgrade, slow system plus low end video card isn't going to game well, isn't likely to be capable of decoding or displaying 1080p on the monitor, is basically only fit for a secondary use in which what you would want most of all is to not have to monitor it so ... [Truncated]