ATI Radeon 3450 Author:  Michael Lynch Date:  2008.03.31 Topic:  Video Provider:  ATI Manufacturer:  ATI

ATI Radeon 3450 HD

A Closer Look:

So lets take a look at the card itself and see how it has been engineered.

As you can see in the pictures above, the ATI Radeon 3450 is a single slot graphics card that has a DVI and VGA output. Being a slim graphics card, it has the availability to fit into smaller cases with ease and may prevent any space problems from other larger components in your system. As you can see it uses passive cooling, as opposed to active or water cooling, or even the two slot design that some of the high end cards use. Using the passive cooling makes the graphics card quiet, unlike a wind tunnel like some of the larger cards. The heat sink covers nearly the entire card. This allows the heat to spread over a greater area, providing better cooling.

The new ATI Radeon 3400 series supports ATI CrossFireX. You may be wondering how, because there is no crossfire cable on the card. This is because CrossFireX uses the Hybrid technology where it uses the onboard graphics of the new 780G chipset. Making a CrossFire connection of the ATI Radeon 3450 and the onboard ATI Radeon 3200.

Test System:

For our testing we are going to be using the AMD Phenom 9600BE quad core processor with Asus' new 780G motherboard. As the operating system we chose to use Windows Vista to get full advantages of DirectX 10.1.

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