Product Description

Play the Vista way! Ignite your imagination with the technologythat makes distant worlds erupt with vibrant textures rendered inHigh-Definition clarity a reality. The Sapphire HD3450 is MicrosoftVISTA compatible with awesome power of 40 stream proce

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37648 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sapphire
• Model: 11125-05-26R
• Released on: 2008-11-05
• Dimensions: 4.41 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Play the Vistaway!Ignite your imagination with the technology that makes distant worlds erupt with vibrant textures rendered in High-Definition clarity a reality. The SAPPHIRE HD3450 is Microsoft VISTA compatible with awesome power of 40 stream processing units, accelerates next generation DirectX 10 games while remaining best in its price vs. performance class. Support for the latest Shader Model 4 boost the level of realism provided by the HD3450 to new heights and the available on board memory of 256MB or 512MB of DDR/GDDR ensures a smooth frame rate in all of today's hot titles and applications. Enhance the way you play not the amount you pay.

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Customer Reviews

Descent Card at a Good Price
Bought this to use as a TV-OUT for a standard (CRT) TV. Hence I wanted something without a cooling fan and with TV-OUT capability.

All of the information on the TV-OUT capabilities of the card, and the cables which come with it were VERY sparce. This seemed to be a problem with most graphics cards, no matter which manufacturer.

I had expected a few cables with it, but actually the only "cable" in the box is a small yellow adapter which converts the card's TV-OUT socket to a standard S-VIDEO (phono type) socket.

Having said that, everything worked fine and getting the card to output to my TV was pretty easy, although obviously you will also need to clone the display to a PC monitor during setup so that you can read the text on the setup screen. Once everything is setup though, the monitor can be disconnected and the Media Centre graphcs and TV picture are great.

All in all, a very good card for this application.

Sapphire HD3450
The Sapphire HD3450 is a good all rounder, I played FSX with it and had all graphics and realism set to high, the card performs well but the frame rate suffers a bit and the GPU was flatlining at 99%. obviously for what it is and for the price it is a good card but if you are a serious gamer and want to play FSX with the highest settings possible go for a much more expensive card.

installation problem inititally
Worked instantly in ubuntu but wouldnt install in XP despite following all instructions. I had to reinstall xp for other reasons and then it worked. Runs pretty hot though