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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 359752" data-attributes="member: 83973"><p>....or a fanless ATi HD3450 - not as powerful as the HD4550 and only supports 2 channel HDMI audio, but should be pretty cheap now. </p><p></p><p>I had one of these in my Vostro before the 9500GT - I replaced it because it wasn't quite up to coping with deinterlacing 1080i MPEG-2 on a 1080p display.</p><p></p><p>I'd agree with Hoborg that the HD4350/HD4550 is probably the best combination of performance versus low-power - according to ATi they use 25W max (see <a href="http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd4500/index.html" target="_blank">ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Graphics Technology - Overview</a>), so it should be OK with your 180w power supply. To be honest, any low-profile card with a passive heatsink has to be low power otherwise it would fry itself.....</p><p></p><p></p><p>One thing to be aware of with fanless (passive) cooled cards is that they can be thicker than one PCIe slot due to the size of the heatsink e.g. my HD3450 uses up 2 slot spaces.</p><p></p><p>Tony</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 359752, member: 83973"] ....or a fanless ATi HD3450 - not as powerful as the HD4550 and only supports 2 channel HDMI audio, but should be pretty cheap now. I had one of these in my Vostro before the 9500GT - I replaced it because it wasn't quite up to coping with deinterlacing 1080i MPEG-2 on a 1080p display. I'd agree with Hoborg that the HD4350/HD4550 is probably the best combination of performance versus low-power - according to ATi they use 25W max (see [url=http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd4500/index.html]ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 Graphics Technology - Overview[/url]), so it should be OK with your 180w power supply. To be honest, any low-profile card with a passive heatsink has to be low power otherwise it would fry itself..... One thing to be aware of with fanless (passive) cooled cards is that they can be thicker than one PCIe slot due to the size of the heatsink e.g. my HD3450 uses up 2 slot spaces. Tony [/QUOTE]
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