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    Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 - a gamers' card or HTPC hero?

    Sapphire's Radeon HD 4550 mirrors the reference design. Find out if it's a good fit at £45
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    Re: Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 - a gamers' card or HTPC hero?

    Would have liked to have seen the powed draw for the 4670 next to the ratings listed

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    Re: Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 - a gamers' card or HTPC hero?

    So, my question was going to be whether the 4550 is the best 'low profile' mid range out there...it seems the answer is no....I apparently should go for the Nvidia 9500. Although I wonder which is best for Blu-Ray playback?!

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    Re: Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 - a gamers' card or HTPC hero?

    Also, I have just bought a dell Studio slimline....Will the power supply be adequate at 250 Watts?

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    Re: Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 - a gamers' card or HTPC hero?

    I would think so - at least for the 4550 as it only has a TDP of around 25w.

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    Re: Reviews - Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 - a gamers' card or HTPC hero?

    Hey Hexus guys or gals, what happened to the promised part 2 of your intial review of the low end 4000 series.

    Part 1 in September pointed out the gaming limitatons of 4350 and 4550 gpus but thought they were great htpc potential. A part 2 review with Htpc relvant comments was promised.

    Instead your still running bleeding edge DX10 games thorough these things.

    Test low profile hdmi passive cards for our htpc's tell us about getting audio to work with hd or blu ray content tell us the power consumption, image quality etc.

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