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    Old HD5450 worth keeping

    Hi I have an old HD5450 card and wondered if it was worth keeping as a spare backup card or has tech moved on since this and bin it ?
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    Re: Old HD5450 worth keeping

    PCI-E card without an external power connector - worth having in a box just in case!

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    Re: Old HD5450 worth keeping

    If you have space for it.

    I once had a GPU fail, no on-board graphics on my PC, so I had to use something like that to boot the PC up to order a new GPU.

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    Re: Old HD5450 worth keeping

    I use that card in my living room pc, outputs hdmi to the tv/amp and dvi to the monitor. I use an NVidia shield for streaming so don't use the hdmi much, but it's been a great card for me. I don't do gaming though. I'd keep it in case you need a spare

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    Re: Old HD5450 worth keeping

    Thanks all it was used in my htpc but started using an Apple TV so scrapped it and found I kept this, so back in 5he drawer it goes

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    Re: Old HD5450 worth keeping

    Quote Originally Posted by RobTi View Post
    ... old HD5450 card ... has tech moved on ...
    Around half the cards currently being sold as the 'new' R5 230 are actually rebadged 5450s in disguise (the other half are the slightly newer 6450). In entry level discrete graphics things hasn't moved on at all, because modern1 integrated graphics provide basically the same experience, and most computers built over the last 7 years or so have had IGPs2. That means there's no real impetus for improving the performance of entry level dGPUs.

    1 2011 saw the introduction of Llano APUs and Sandy Bridge HD3000 graphics, which were roughly equivalent or faster than the lowest rung dGPUs.

    2Both Intel and AMD have produced mass market GPUs with IGPs since 2011, and socket AM3+ had IGP northbridges, which makes Intel's HEDT platform the only one with no IGP option between 2011 and 2017, when Ryzen CPUs hit the market. And it's only a fraction of that market that would want a basic dGPU without considering performance.

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    Re: Old HD5450 worth keeping

    I'd never chuck away a working graphics card, as even if you have IGP as back-up, it's handy for testing that the PCI-E slot is working too.

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