Sapphire Flex AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB DDR3 DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card 100322FLEX

This is being used in a business environment to drive three 1080p monitors.The first card I received had a DVI port that cut out intermittently, so one star was knocked off. The replacement has been working without issue for 2 months.This is not a gamers' card (it's hardly better than current Intel onboard video), but it works very well in its role feeding a triple monitor setup.Edit: 6 months later, still going strong.

I really needed to run three monitors at work. I am generally using 12-15 programs at the same time, so more screen real estate was a must! My workstation is a Dell Optiplex 7010, i5-3570, 4GB RAM, and a 500GB HDD.Now, I know some of you are going to say that I could have just got some active displayport adapters and used the iGPU on the i5 for the triple monitor setup. Well, thats the first thing I tried. I used a pair of adapters from Powercolor and I would get constant flickering on whichever monitor was set to primary. Even after updating drivers and reallocating more RAM to the iGPU, it would wouldn't stop. After much troubleshooting with several other computers both at work and at home, I determine that the adapaters were in fact bad. Luckily, I bought them from Amazon, so returning them was a cinch (thanks Amazon!).So it was on to find another set of displayport adapters. It took me a minute to realize it, but a pair of adapters is about $50 dollars. I knew I would not need much of a graphics card to do what I need, so a $50-$60 graphics card might get the job done better, and easier than the adapters.And then I found this guy! Its a fantastic value for a workstation. Slightly more expensive than displayport adapters, but its a much better solution.Installation was a breeze. Just swap the bracket (if needed), pop it into an open PCIE slot, hookup the monitors (using the included adapter if needed), power up, install drivers, and thats it! I am extremely happy with my purchase and my productivity has actually increased considerably. Highly recommended!

This card operates ONLY on PCI Bus Power. There is no Power Supply Plug in.It is very slow and unresponsive to mouse commands. EX.: a 7 second delay to open Outlook Express E-Mail. Clicking a desktop icon makes the icon dissappear! Then come back.I'm running an Intel P4 3.4 GHz w/ 4 GB RAM and 460 Watt Power Supply.It does operate Dual Displays. BUT Streaming Video is DISSMAL!FYI, your choice.AGJ

I have been using this graphics card for over a month. It is outstanding. I have (see picture) three 4:3 aspect ratio monitors, 2 HP LP 2065 1 Dell 2007FPb. I cannot say enough about how great the graphics look on these monitors with the new card. I do not use it for gaming. It does not matter which monitor cable you hook where as the Catalyst Control Center will let you choose any one as primary and arrange the monitors in any order you wish. In order to get to the help section right click on The Catalyst Control Center icon in the system tray. I run two of my monitors in landscape. To start with the orientation on the portrait monitor was 180 out. I could rotate it to the correct orientation using the Catalyst Control Center, I would get a message saying I had correctly changed the orientation, but in about 30 seconds it would revert back to the 180 out setting. I found that by going to the system tray and changing the orientation, there it would stay in the correct orientation. Before I figured this out I sent a message to Radeon’s via their support page asking for help. They suggest downloading and reinstalling the drivers by then I had it working correctly. So I did not install the drivers again.

I kept experiencing issues with my work computer trying to drive 3 monitors with both the onboard video and an addon video card as well. I would get BSOD events from the setup and the onboard video consumed 2GB of physical memory as well too.I decided on this card because it is the only card at the time of purchase that was under $100 that could drive 3 DVI monitors. A lot of the other cards require either DisplayPort monitors or active dongles to drive them. This card however is specifically designed to work with much more mainstream monitors. The included HDMI to DVI dongle and DVI to VGA adapter are wonderful as well and let me connect any of my existing monitors as I have VGA, DVI, and HDMI however I have no DisplayPort monitors.The onboard memory let my system free up extra memory used by the onboard video and also is several generations newer from the Radeon 4xxx series cards I had before. The new card uses less power and also works better with video feedback.This design is also fanless making the system more reliable and silent. At work we've had far too many video cards die or have issues just from the fans having issues.

This was my first build and I worried and worried about making it work the first time - so I looked for the highest rated products with many ratings to try to ensure best performance and best chances of things not being DOA. I have been delighted with this video card and works perfectly out of the box with Linux Mint! It works with Debian, but max monitor resolution was not available after installation and I had no intention of monkeying around with it to get it to work. I'm using the proprietary AMD driver. The heat sink is a little hot in comparison with the rest of my build, but such is to be expected with a lower-end video card.This computer is primarily used for processor intensive simulations and runs incredibly cool, even with all cores (and threads) maxed out. At idle the processor is 36C and at full load with max turbo boost it is only 55C.My setup:Intel Core i7-3930K 6 core processorASUS Sabertooth X79 Motherboard4X4GB Gskill 14900 RAMNoctua NH-D14 SE2011 coolerSaffire Flex Radeon HD 6450 (1GB)WD Blue 1TB hard driveCooler Master HAF 922 computer case