VisionTekRadeon 5450 2GB DDR3 (DVI-I, HDMI, VGA) Graphics Card - 900861,Black/Red

This card works great. It allowed me to use all three of my monitors at the same time without any driver conflicts.

The original video card died in my older OptiPlex 980 and I had to get my PC back in business fast. After looking to see: 1) what Amazon had to offer that fit the application, 2) could be delivered fast, and 3) was budget-friendly, this card fit the bill. The card was a direct replacement for the machine's PCI-e x16 slot and I knew going in that since this wasn't for a small form factor (SFF) case, I would need to practice some bracketology by using a SFF bracket kit sold here on Amazon. Once installed, Win10 Pro automatically loaded the correct drivers and the card does provide dual monitor support with separate images on each screen. In my case, I'm running DVI to one monitor and HDMI to the other. Both monitors are Asus VS248 24-in. I'm not sure about gaming, but this card does fine for most desktop applications including some light video editing with Adobe Premiere Rush and handles MS office apps well. With dual monitor support, it also allows me to watch the morning news on Xfinity streaming on one screen while getting a start on the day's Email in Outlook. One last thing: This card does not have a fan, but instead uses a large heatsink for GPU cooling. This cuts down on the noise from the PC, which I like. As with any PC, periodically vacuum the accumulated dust from inside of the PC case to keep the heatsink clean, along with the rest of the internal components. Overall this card is a great value and a huge upgrade in video memory from 256MB to 2 GB!

Updated: September 11, 2020I used one of these in a full height case with VGA. I used a 2nd one in a half-height case with a single slot and could not use the VGA, so I used a DVI to VGA Adapter (DVIBGAMFBK) sold here on Amazon, and I could not see any of the sides of the display i.e. the icons on the left were too far left, the bottom status bar including the start menu was off the screen and the icons at the top were too far to the top. So I found the DVI cable that came with the monitor and used it, until I could drill a hole in the ITX case for the VGA connector.On a whim I tried a graphics card made by a different company, but both were the HD5450 silent cards and with the new card I was able to use the DVI to VGA adapter. So there is a definite issue with the DVI connector on this VisionTek when used with a DVI to VGA adapter. I will use in a full height case in the futureOriginal Review July 5, 2020I had to add a SATA controller to our Linux PC's although all of our graphics cards were single slot, one machine actually occupied 2 slots even thought the slot cover on the back was for a single slot. I don't understand why some companies have to make their fan shroud so large that it occupies two slots.Enter the VisionTek 5450 which has a heat sink that only occupies one slot. The card works great in Linux and in Windows (we are not gaming people) and some of our Linux machines dual boot to Windows. This card works great in both operating systems.

I put this card into a quad-core AMD machine with 32GB RAM, with an ASUS motherboard running Fedora 30 Linux that only had on-board video. Video performance on this machine was terrible (under both Fedora and Kubuntu), when scrolling websites with a lot of text -- let alone pictures or video -- there was obvious shearing in the image, because (as it true for the most part) on-board video is usually terrible as it usually uses system memory for video. I could open a Konsole window and watch it repaint when moving it to another part of the screen.Then I bought this video card, and this machine is so much more usable. Konsole windows move around quickly, I'm not seeing any shearing at all - even on content intensive websites, and gaming performance is much better as well.If you're running a box that only has the onboard video, this card is an immediate, noticeable upgrade in performance that isn't going to break the bank.Because my onboard video chip set was already an ATI processor, this card just snapped in and worked - no driver upgrade was required. If you are running a lesser operating system like Windows you may need to download and upgrade drivers.Speaking of drivers, no driver CD was included, so if you're running a lesser operating system like Windows you're likely going to have to download drivers.