guinness1983
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I'm looking at the radeon 5450 there are three versions.
The first is SAPPHIRE 5450 with 512mb ddr3
The second is a MSI with 1g and ddr3 but these are getting harder and harder to find and because of the large heatsink may not be an option for me.
I can't remember the third brand but it had a 1gb ddr2.
All have 650mhz core clock and 800mhz memory clock. I think the Sapphire may have 1600mhz. I don't know if those figures are important or not.
I don't play games on pc anymore so mostly watching movies and regular surfing and watching some live streaming stuff. I read somewhere that having 1gb isn't such an advantage over 512mb for low end, entry level stuff. I don't know if that's true or not.
Edit:
I sometimes look at photography sites (flickr,photo.net,natgeo etc) and open multiple tabs on google chrome, sometimes two or three different windows with multiple tabs each. I don't know if this makes a difference but when i do this I notice the PC gets a little louder and this is about as much load as I put on it. Don't know if it has anything to do with the GPU, maybe it has more to do with the CPU but I thought I would add the info...
The first is SAPPHIRE 5450 with 512mb ddr3
The second is a MSI with 1g and ddr3 but these are getting harder and harder to find and because of the large heatsink may not be an option for me.
I can't remember the third brand but it had a 1gb ddr2.
All have 650mhz core clock and 800mhz memory clock. I think the Sapphire may have 1600mhz. I don't know if those figures are important or not.
I don't play games on pc anymore so mostly watching movies and regular surfing and watching some live streaming stuff. I read somewhere that having 1gb isn't such an advantage over 512mb for low end, entry level stuff. I don't know if that's true or not.
Edit:
I sometimes look at photography sites (flickr,photo.net,natgeo etc) and open multiple tabs on google chrome, sometimes two or three different windows with multiple tabs each. I don't know if this makes a difference but when i do this I notice the PC gets a little louder and this is about as much load as I put on it. Don't know if it has anything to do with the GPU, maybe it has more to do with the CPU but I thought I would add the info...
