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<blockquote data-quote="VdR" data-source="post: 755829" data-attributes="member: 25818">I have had an AMD HD4350 in my living room client with success for a while. However I just threw it out, here is why.I upgraded the display to a Panasonic TX-P46G30E Full HD. Different from the old Samsung this screen had to be connected through HDMI. That brought trouble.As discussed all over the internet the AMD drivers default to underscan on the HDMI output, so you get treated on a black frame around the image. The obvious thing to do is to install the Catalyst pack to adjust the underscan to 0%.However, the underscan setting goes back to default (black frame) every time you change refresh rate. I could not figure out how to fix that. And also, with the Catalyst pack installed, every time a full screen video stream started the image quality changed to 'very poor' (pale colors and color blocks). This was repeatable, install Catalyst is trouble, uninstall and it's ok. Here too, I couldn't find a fix.I got so fed up trying to fix this that I went out and bought the first NVIDIA GT220 card I could find. Everything worked 100% within 10 minutes. Just installed the drivers, no additional software, no settings to tweak.I won't easily bother with AMD anymore.VdRPSFor Sale: Sapphire Radeon HD 4350, the ideal HD HTPC video card <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="VdR, post: 755829, member: 25818"] I have had an AMD HD4350 in my living room client with success for a while. However I just threw it out, here is why. I upgraded the display to a Panasonic TX-P46G30E Full HD. Different from the old Samsung this screen had to be connected through HDMI. That brought trouble. As discussed all over the internet the AMD drivers default to underscan on the HDMI output, so you get treated on a black frame around the image. The obvious thing to do is to install the Catalyst pack to adjust the underscan to 0%. However, the underscan setting goes back to default (black frame) every time you change refresh rate. I could not figure out how to fix that. And also, with the Catalyst pack installed, every time a full screen video stream started the image quality changed to 'very poor' (pale colors and color blocks). This was repeatable, install Catalyst is trouble, uninstall and it's ok. Here too, I couldn't find a fix. I got so fed up trying to fix this that I went out and bought the first NVIDIA GT220 card I could find. Everything worked 100% within 10 minutes. Just installed the drivers, no additional software, no settings to tweak. I won't easily bother with AMD anymore. VdR PS For Sale: Sapphire Radeon HD 4350, the ideal HD HTPC video card ;) [/QUOTE]

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