Sapphire Radeon HD 3450 Graphics Card

Garbled screen, frustrating support

Strengths: Price

Weakness: Frequent problems with a garbling on the screen

This is not a gamer's card, which is good because I'm not a gamer. I'm using it on an ASUS motherboard with an AMD dual core processor, on Windows XP. I have installed the latest driver. The radeon is an ATI product, which AMD owns. While I have found it usable, I frequently get garbling on the screen, which I can usually remove by opening something that causes a screen re-write. This may be a...
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This is not a gamer's card, which is good because I'm not a gamer. I'm using it on an ASUS motherboard with an AMD dual core processor, on Windows XP. I have installed the latest driver. The radeon is an ATI product, which AMD owns. While I have found it usable, I frequently get garbling on the screen, which I can usually remove by opening something that causes a screen re-write. This may be a system-specific problem or it might be a failing of the card itself.

I went to Sapphire's support forum and discovered 2 problems. First, the forum administrator has control issues like I've never seen on a forum. I didn't even bother to register for the forum. Second, when I wanted to do a search in the forum, I had to fill in one of those boxes requiring you to read the skewed letters and numbers in a colored box. It was hard to read (I'm not color blind), but I typed it in carefully, using caps and small letters as shown. I tried two times and was told both times that I had failed. You can draw your own conclusions.

By jdandrews - Jul 28, 2008

Sapphire Radeon HD 3450 256MB PCIe 11125-00-20R

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By testseek.com - Nov 7, 2008