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In stark contrast to the eVGA card on the last page, the Powercolor HD5750 Low Profile box art is ‘fantasy based' and features a dude who is clearly miffed that someone has taken his horse. The front of the box also features a picture of the low profile design with dual fan.
The PowerColor bundle is spartan, with a driver disc, installation guide and a low profile bracket which you can use if you remove the VGA cable.
The card requires two slots (with this bracket anyway) and it is important to keep the area around the fans free to allow for air flow.
The card is clearly aimed at the home enthusiast audience as there is only a single DVI port, paired up with a full sized HDMI port and a removable VGA port. The HDMI port supports full 7.1 channel audio and this is controlled by an HD Audio device integrated in the GPU. You can use all three inputs at the same time if you wish. The more observant among you will already have noticed that there is no Crossfire connector on the card although you can run Crossfire across the PCI express bus. It takes a single 6 pin connector for power.
The heatsink on this card also actively cools the memory modules around the core.
It is really good to see lower end cards reviewed here, the high end boards are great, but I doubt many people can afford them.
That XFX board is great. looks like a bargain to me.
This market is really so friggin sweet right now. anyone with a semi decent sized monitor, this is all they need. im not a gaming fanatic so maybe people wouldnt agree.
Nah its a good point Tom. if someone has a 1920×1200 screen, a 460GTX is all they need, unless they want crazy performance. 1080p, or 1680 then the cards on test today are great. the low end is so strong right now, it has to be killing high end cards sales.
I actually might pick one of these up for my kid brother for christmas. we are all putting a system together for him. cant believe how good the performance is for the price.
XFX and Sapphire, only cards to buy IMO
450GTS is good but I dont think its a dominating product like the 460 was. its killed 5830, and even hurt 5850’s. The 450 is a good board but the overclocked ATI cards are really going punch for punch.
I like that single slot design. the powercolor card is different but the shape looks weird.
Fantastic review, loads of detail and useful info.
wonder how long it will be for other sites to copy the return to idle concept 😉
GTS450 is a good card but I agree, it isnt dominating like the 460 is. the price is good and I like evga, this would be my choice out of the three, mainly cause I dont like catalyst.
@ Tri Color – Catalyst is great now, not a problem, I wouldnt let the drivers put you off the hardware.
@ Stefan – nah, they still suck. my buddy has a 5850 and the cat alyst 10.8 broke his HDMI scaling and every time he boots up he has to fix it. same with Cat 10.9. they are still a poor driver compared to nvidia forceware.