New card running slower?

[Yuriman]

Last gen offerings at the low end from AMD are the HD6450 / HD7450 / R5 230 (same card, different names). This card is about twice as fast as a 5450 on paper, and Newegg has one for $38 after rebate. The cheapest current gen card you can get (GCN) is the R7 240, which starts at around $70.

I'm not as familiar with nVidia's offerings, but the it looks like the last gen GTX 650 and current gen GTX 750 both start at around $100.

Have you considered a platform update? AMD and NV's current integrated GPU options should have no trouble. A Celeron or AMD A6 iGPU should be plenty for your HTPC needs, and motherboard + CPU will be less than the price of a new card. You'll lose some CPU performance but probably get a quieter and less power hungry system out of it. Either should still be plenty adequate for day to day desktop use, and should run on a ~90w PSU. An Atom or Kabini quad might even do, and you can get a completely fanless Baytrail quad and motherboard for less than $50:

ATX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157513

ITX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135391

EDIT: I suggest this because I've just moved to ITX myself and found no real compromises, while cutting my computer's size down 80%, and noise and power consumption basically in half.

 

[MRGOOCH]

No I won't go in that direction. The only reason I even changed cards was for the new DP connection.I need it for my new monitor.

 

[Yuriman]

Well, just saying that changing cards again might actually be more expensive than replacing the platform. There are motherboards with multiple DP out.

If money is less of a concern than avoiding reinstalling Windows, I think an R7 240 fits the bill.

 

[Deders]

I once also bought HD5450 which couldn't play videos smoothly, issue was that card had 32bit memory interface instead of normal 64bit. That 32bit memory interface was also clocked very low, at 800MHz data rate, really a card grade lower than normal HD5450. Shame that AMD let manufacturers do such a ripp offs.

OP you can check with GPUz to make sure you have the 64 bit card and not the 32.

 

[MRGOOCH]

I finally solved the problem. I returned it.