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Newegg has the Sapphire 100292DDR3L Radeon HD 5450 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card for $30 - $15 rebate [Exp 7/15] = $15 with free shipping. Features HDMI, D-SUB, and DVI ports, 80 stream processing units and a 650MHz core clock speed.
$15
This is the card I said to get before that Zotac 8400 GS, heck even is a 25Mhz higher over referance.
Be prepared to wait forever and a day for the rebate - been there, done that, just about died of old age.
Sapphire has alway been about 8-10 weeks the norm for most rebates, while only $10 rebate... Beats waiting for that $20 Zotac rebate on a card from 2007.
There are two sites I know of for comparing video cards:
One is hwcompare bacon and the other is videocardbenchmark dot net. One will compare the cards of your choice in several categories and the other gives all the cards in several different orders: rating, rank, value and price. Both sites are great for comparing what you have to what you are wondering if you want.
BTW, hwcompare shows this card to be twice as good in memory bandwidth while using half the power and the other areas are about even, compared to the 8400 GS (not the specific Zotac brand though)
Both are great references and can provide some detail, though comparing gaming B/M is irrelevant pretty much with either. The 5450 would offers Dx11 compliance (nice if on Win7) the 8400 GS Dx10, so no huge advantage, though the new OpenGL compliance on the AMD is handy. While I would have to say when it comes to stuff like watching YouTube, 1080P content, high definition videos, decoding, H.264… I’d stick to a more modern GPU design, it saves on power while permit off-load more from the CPU’s work load.
DDR3 on 64-Bit would offer more bandwidth.
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=529&card2=625
And to power this is a good real world reference, but how this translate to the lower any power bills for-get-about it. http://forumsbaconomicmpc.com.au/index.php?showtopic=264