Sometimes very entertaining products can be the cheapest ones around. Especially for graphics cards this rule applies very often. In the high-end segment you need to have luck to tweak and overclock or pay a premium price for customizations.
In the lower-end and budget products we often see the most wicked stuff that is very tweakable and versatile. Today we review such a product, surely not a gamers dream or even a mid-range product. But at roughly 69 to 79 USD you can purchase a Radeon HD 4650. That little fracker has full high-definition decoding and accelerating capabilities and packs even enough punch to play some of the modern games, though at low monitor resolutions.
That trustworthy company HIS even has a passively cooled version of the product, and suffice to say… we had a really great time with it. HIS calls it their Radeon HD 4650 512MB iSilence4, it comes completely passively cooled thanks to a Zalman cooler. And… oh for gawds sake, let me do one pun here that I’ve been thinking about ever since the card arrived:
- Introduction
- Radeon HD 4650 architecture
- RV730 - A Radeon HD 4650 with 512MB GDDR2
- DirextX 10.1 and High Definition content playback
- Installation | GPU temps | Power consumption | Noise levels
- Photos - Radeon HD 4650 512MB
- Photos - Radeon HD 4650 512MB
- Test Environment & Equipment
- VGA performance: Far Cry 2 (DX10)
- VGA performance: Call of Duty 5: World at War (DX9)
- VGA performance: F.E.A.R. - Perseus Mandate (DX9)
- VGA performance: Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway (DX9)
- VGA performance: Fallout 3 (DX9)
- VGA performance: DeadSpace (DX9) | 3DMark Vantage (DX10)
- VGA performance: Left 4 Dead (DX9)
- Overclocking & Tweaking
- Final Words & Conclusion
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