Sapphire provides Eyefinity on the cheap with the Radeon HD 6450 FleX

Wile E · Dec 10, 2011

Completely Bonkers said:
Cheap, but still quite a premium. For that price you could buy TWO regular 6450's and get FOUR screens and TWICE the compute power.

What kind of performance could we expect out of this passive GPU? Would it serve as a useful side-grade for older machines...

What if the system you are putting it in can only accept a single card? I think this is intended for SFF builds, and as such, many can't take a second card.

Niche market for sure, but certainly a valid market.

Completely Bonkers · Dec 10, 2011

... in which case, it won't be able to take a double width card, perchance.

OK. Yes, I'm sure you are right, there is a niche somewhere for this product. But, anyway, let's not split hairs. At the current launch pricing, for most people, there are other, better, cheaper options.

newtekie1 · Dec 10, 2011

blibba said:
If you want to be pedantic, the card makes some sense for people who cannot place two regular low end cards in their system. Maybe they have a mini-itx board with a two expansion slot case. Maybe they have two expansion slots and one is PCI, or perhaps it's pci-ex1 and they don't want to get busy with a dremmel. Who knows. Maybe they just think a single card is more elegant.

Also, I'm pretty sure nobody in this thread implied that >2 monitors was impossible pre-eyefinity. I don't see how one would arrive at that conclusion.

Yes, you've managed to find the one and only time when this card would be useful. Of course, if you are building with multiple monitors in mind, don't use micro-ITX. Other than that, if they have one PCI, then get a second PCI card, they start at $40. Still cheaper than this. And paying a $40+ premium to avoid the dremel isn't smart.

And I wasn't just talking about this thread, I'm talking about most eyefinity discussions in general. I've seen more than one time when people say "eyefinity is great because you can have a messenger up on another monitor while gaming". I'm amazed at the number of people that thing eyefninity is the only option for multi-monitor support.

Completely Bonkers said:
... in which case, it won't be able to take a double width card, perchance.

OK. Yes, I'm sure you are right, there is a niche somewhere for this product. But, anyway, let's not split hairs. At the current launch pricing, for most people, there are other, better, cheaper options.

Exactly, except for an extremely small niche, this product is useless. And even in that niche, there are better options, like not going mini-ITX.

theJesus · Dec 11, 2011

newtekie1 said:
And paying a $40+ premium to avoid the dremel isn't smart.

Why is it assumed that everybody is willing to hack apart their electronics?

newtekie1 · Dec 11, 2011

theJesus said:
Why is it assumed that everybody is willing to hack apart their electronics?

Because it is insanely easy. And anyone that is willing to spend $75 to avoid modding a $10 card is an idiot. Even if they mess up, they've got 7 more tries before the cost evens out.

Wile E · Dec 11, 2011

newtekie1 said:
Because it is insanely easy. And anyone that is willing to spend $75 to avoid modding a $10 card is an idiot. Even if they mess up, they've got 7 more tries before the cost evens out.

Some people don't have the tools needed to mod a card. And why buy tools you have to keep around if you are only ever going to use it that one time?

Sorry, newtekie, but that's just a stupid argument. Most people aren't inclined to cut apart electronics, cheap or not, and jsut want soemthing that works straight out of the box with no hassles. Insanely easy to you is not insanely easy to everyone.

Morgoth · Dec 11, 2011

btarunr said:
That is so cute.

yea the girl on the box is realy cute :pimp:

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Sapphire provides Eyefinity on the cheap with the Radeon HD 6450 FleX

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