Sapphire 11142-07-20R HD 4350 512MB DDR2 PCIE Graphics Card

Bought this graphics card for our E-Box as the on-board graphics didn't work well with Win7. Have to say the results were miles better than I was expecting, the produced picture is sharper with better colour hue and intensity. As it is passive cooled there is no loud fan on the card which is great as it cuts down the noise in the case so less distraction when watching TV or films.
The connections provided by the card are good, you get VGA and HDMI for ease of connecting to HD TV's or monitors. I have not used this card with any games yet but suspect that it will handle them well.
It is also easy to install into your PC case and gives you the option of full slot height or low profile for E-box's, which in my case was a definate need. The only complaint, if you could call it that, is that the supplied LP plates for the back I/O connectors are a bit loose in my case so I must be carefull not to snap anything when plugging in VGA or HDMI cables.
All in all this is a very good card for mid pricing and I would recommend it to any one on a budget that wants great performance.

I upgraded my 5 year old HP Pavilion Desktop T685 to Windows 7 a few months ago and everything went well, all devices worked fine except the Radeon X600 graphics card. Whilst it worked, Google Earth crashed the device and system if I used it in Direct X mode - and software emulation of Open GL mode was slow and limited.

I lived with it for a while, then decided that I would bite the bullet and researched a replacement graphics card. It seemed that the Radeon HD4350 had good reviews, would install easily, was supported by Windows 7, and was a reasonable price.

It came this morning, 2 days after I ordered it - brilliant standard delivery service. I disconnected the power, opened up the PC and poked around - not being a hardware expert. I found where the monitor connected and figured that would be the on the graphics card. I undid the retaining screw, released the old card from the motherboard, and was pleased to see that the new card was indeed totally compatible physically. I pushed it in, did up the retaining screw, and powered it up. The monitor still worked, Windows 7 came up, discovered the new hardware and installed the driver, requested a reboot, and after that it was up and running as if nothing had changed.

I started up Google Earth in Direct X mode and the performance was outstanding - spinning the globe, zooming in and out with speed that I hadn't ever seen previously. I then played a movie via Windows Media player and it started so fast and played prefectly. I also ran a couple of 3D graphics demos from the Internet - and they all worked faultlessly.

So - in summary - it was simple, and it work fantastically well. A great buy for me.

I agree with the rest of the reviews that this is a really nice little gfx card. When I went looking for a passively cooled low profile PCI-e gfx card with HDMI out, I thought I'd have no chance (a bit specific eh?). But this product ticks all the boxes, happy days!

My only words of warning would be that the heat sink is a little bigger than it looks in the images. It wraps over the top to the back in a continuous piece of metal and hangs out almost a centimetre, it also makes the card just a few millimetres taller than the low profile standard.

I put this in my Dell Optiplex 755 (the SFF, small form factor version), which has a PCI slot "behind" the PCI-E slot for this card (instead of the standard layout which would be "in front"). I have a low profile TV card in the PCI slot (a Compro T500F) which fortunately doesn't have any tall components, so it doesn't interfere... but it is very close.

Also because the heat sink makes this card slightly taller than a standard low profile, the side of my case (well top, because I lay my system down) is actually pressed right up against the heat sink & is slightly bowed outwards as a result. Effectively it'll use the metal case for cooling, a bonus... but I am worried any physical knocks will be transferred directly to the GPU.

My recommendation, before you purchase check you have a couple of mm room above & just less than 1cm behind.

If the heat sink had been better laid out this would have been a 5 star product, as it is, I'm giving it 4.