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SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS
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| With all the latest features, the ATI Radeon™HD 4550 graphics cards deliver an incredible visual experience with best in classperformance. Enjoy unprecedented levels of graphics realism and play the latest games with support for Microsoft DirectX®10.1. Add this graphics card to your PC and watch Blu-ray movies and HD content play with incredible visual fidelity1, and view digital photos with over 1 billion colors2. Do it all with break-through efficiency that doesn’t compromise performance. | | |
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| Specification | | Output | 1 x D-Sub(VGA)
1 x Dual-Link DVI
1 x TV-Out
| | GPU | 600 MHz Core Clock
55 nm Chip
80 x Stream Processors
| | Memory | 512 MB Size
64 -bit DDR3
1333 MHz Effective
| | Software | Driver CD
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All specifications and accessories are subject to change without notice. Please check with your supplier for exact offers. Products may not be available in all markets.  | ATI Stream Technology Accelerate the most demanding applications with ATI Stream technology and do more with your PC. ATI Stream Technology allows you to use the teraflops of compute power locked up in your graphics processer on tasks other than traditional graphics such as video encoding, at which the graphics processor is many, many times faster than using the CPU alone. |
 | ATI Avivo HD (DVD/HD-DVD/Blue-ray Playback) Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p display resolution and beyond and enjoy a more feature rich experience with enhanced Unified Video Decoder(UVD) |
 | ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology Triple or Quadruple with gaming power withATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology.ATI CrossFireX technology supports up to four graphics cards to be used in a single system. |
 | PCI-Express 2.0 The latest PCI-Express 2.0 specification doubles data throughput from 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps allowing you to exploit the full performance potential of your graphics card. |
_20091112_4492.gif) | D-Sub(VGA) The 15-pin VGA connector is common to most monitors and high definition television.You can connect your LCD or CRT monitor / TV with D-sub VGA connector. |
 | Dual-Link DVI Equipped with the most popular Dual Link DVI (Digital Visual Interface), this card is able to display ultra high resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. |
 | TV-Out Connect the TV OUT connecotor on your graphics card to the devices like TV and PVR, and you are able to have your PC experience on the TV.
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 | Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 With DirectX® 10.1 support you can play the latest HD games with unrivalled visual quality, astonishing realism and ultra-fast frame rates.Get unrivalled visual quality and intense gaming performance and for today and tomorrow with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1
►For Microsoft DirectX® 10.1 support, Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 is required. |
 | OpenGL® 2.0 Support OpenGL standard specification defining cross-language. Using OpenGL API to speed up application software,such like Adobe,AutoDesk 2D/3D graphic design.
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 | Shader Model 4.1 Shader Model 4.0 feature set including vertex texture fetch (VTF)-a key feature used in many of today's shipping games. GPUs that don't support this feature will not be able to run these games or will have to default back to Shader Model 3.0, resulting in the loss of cool effects and details made possible by Shader Model 4.0. |
 | ATI Catalyst Control Center™ The ATI Catalyst Control Center™ software application gives you complete control over the performance and visual quality of your SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon™ based graphics card allowing for the best experience on your PC. |
 | Accelerated Video Transcoding Massively parallel architecture and support for common shader transcoding instructions accelerates video encoding / transcoding way beyond what was possible with the CPU only.
(Requires application support for ATI Stream technology and Digital rights management restrictions may apply) |
 | Dolby® TrueHD and DTSHD Master Audio™ Support Support for copy protected, high bandwidth, 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI. Get a fully immersive, high definition audio experience with the latest Blu-ray movies. (Requires a DVI to HDMI dongle on some models, an HD capable monitor and a Blu-ray drive) |
 | Anti-aliasing features Supports advanced AA (Anti-aliasing) features to maximise your enjoyment of high definition gaming.
- Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4 or 8 samples per pixel)
- Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for superior quality
- Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
- Gamma correct
- Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™configurations only)
- All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
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 | Physics processing support Accelerates the performance of Fluid Dynamics, Cloth Simulation, Soft or Rigid Body Dynamics, Universal Collision Detection, Hair Simulation and Finite Element Analysis for the most lifelike gaming experience. |
 | ATI PowerPlay™ Dynamically manage power efficiency and take control of your performance with AMD’s revolutionary ATI PowerPlay TM power management technology delivering high performance features when needed and conserving power when the demand on the graphics processor is low. This seemless technology dramatically reduces the overall power consumption allowing for break-through energy efficiency. |
 | Windows® Vista support Integrate with Windows Vista to deliver the best 3D graphics control.
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- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.
- 300 Watt Power Supply is required.
- 350 Watt Power Supply is recommended for CrossFireX™ System.
- Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products.
- 1024 MB Minimum of system memory.
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.
- DVD playback requires DVD drive.
- Blu-ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu-ray / HD DVD drive.
- For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second same ATI Radeon™ graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX™ Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (optional) are required.
- For best cooling performance, a chassis installed with at least one 120mm or 90mm fan is required.
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| | Editor's Choice | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS |  Folks, the $59.99 Sapphire HD4550 is, quite simply, a great card. You have to buy the card under the proper technical reasons (low power consumption, 1/2 height video solution, cool running, excellent HTPC performance on playback, HDMI and HDCP compliance) and not because you are wanting to play Bioshock/Farcry2/Crysis at the highest framerates. This card excells at the market it is aimed squarely at, and I will unequivicably recommend this card for people who have gaming performance 2nd or 3rd down the list, and HTPC needs in the front. Put simply, this little card RAWKS! If I keep saying things like this, the vendor is going to start thinking I am hitting on them. ;) |  |
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| | Budget Award from Overclockers Online | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS | | Well, I honestly have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the performance and features of the HD4550. It comes with every feature and accessory you could want for a HTPC setup and even handles games fairly well. At around $60 US you easily get your money's worth and more. I really can't find any fault as everything ran smoothly and while it's not the strongest in games, it performs well enough for light duty and should be able to handle most games out there today. With built in 7.1 audio and high definition support, the HD4550 is the ideal card for your HTPC but will also make the casual gamer quite happy. | |
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| | 10 out of 10 Score | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS | | This card is intended to give excellent performance for the average computer user, with the benefit of Blu-Ray decoding, HD Audio via HDMI, and 1080p resolution, making it an excellent choice for a HTPC. You probably won't find another LP card with 512 megs of GDDR3 memory. The fan was silent, which was a little surprising. I have to give special mention to the card's bundle. The included LP bracket has to be purchased separately for most video cards, and they run about 8 bucks. Many low end cards still don't include an HDMI adapter. If needed, these two items add much value to this already inexpensive video card. | |
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| | Recommended by Club Overclocker | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS | | For HTPC applications this card is absolutely perfect. The excellent decoding for both VC-1 and H.264 is very impressive, as well as the relative lack of noise from the fan and the small overall size of the card. Add in the HDMI 7 channel audio capability, and you have the perfect home media solution. | |
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| | Approved by Pro Clockers | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS | | If you are planning to buy the card to replace one in an office workstation or to build up a HTPC system I would not stop you as I think this is what it is best for. And it will do it without breaking the bank. But if for some reason you did decide to get the HD 4550 fear not as you can add a second one at a later time and run them in Crossfire mode. And if you do have a AMD chipset like the 780/790 then hybrid Crossfire is possible. | |
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| | Approved by Phoronix | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS | | Over the past few months we have looked at several Sapphire graphics cards including the Radeon HD 4670, Radeon HD 4850 Toxic, Radeon HD 4870, and Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Vapor-X. All of these cards have performed quite well on Linux with the Catalyst Linux driver and there is even open-source support for these R700 series graphics cards.
Overall, for a low-end card the Radeon HD 4550 is a reputable performer that is derived from the RV770 architecture. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 sample had no issues with cooling and its petite fan was near silent while running. | |
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| | HTPC Recommended Hardware | | | SAPPHIRE HD 4550 512MB DDR3 PCI-E FANLESS | | The Sapphire Radeon HD4550 will only make a small dent in your wallet, coming in at a very reasonable $59.99. This is a very nice cost considering the features and performance I was able to get out of it.
Even if you are only looking to drop this into an HTPC you are going to get your money’s worth from it.
The HD4550 is a great entry level card. I was surprise that only one game was not playable out of the ones that I chose, I was expecting terrible gaming performance and poor image quality but that was not the case.
While you won’t be floored by the speed and power of the HD4550 it is a great and cost effective card that would fit perfectly in an HTPC or entry level gaming system. | |
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