HIS Radeon HD 4350 DirectX 10.1 H435H512PP 512MB 64-Bit DDR2 PCI Low Profile Ready Video Card

Pros: Silent operation and enables gaming provided resolution and quality aren't highly elevated. Onboard eight-channel HD sound.

Cons: Expensive and accelerates neither SD nor HD video, in both XP and Vista. In fact, video playback in Vista, PowerDVD, TMT 3, and WMP displays a blank green screen. In Vista, driver BSODs on bootup if onboard "Intel Extreme" graphics hardware is not disabled.

Overall Review: ATI says their driver will not accelerate video over PCI bus, and advised me to use a PCIe version. But where does that leave the millions of machines, especially Dells, that lack PCIe or AGP slots? Those seeking video playback on such machines can instead use nVidia-based PCI cards like the Sparkle 8400GS sold here.

Pros: The packaging and form of the card is nice. The card stays cool. During test it worked great as a secondary card.

Cons: Did not work right with my HP s7520n or Dell Optiplex gx260. The system's BIOS wouldn't let this card be set as primary. Also the heat-sink takes up more then one slot (not an issue for me). I was able to get it to run in windows as a secondary card and was very disappointed in its performance. Quake 3 benchmarks were 52.8 fps compared to 79.8 fps from the stock xpress 200.

Overall Review: HIS support was a huge headache. This card isn't listed in their list of card so I submitted my request as a similar card and noted the proper model. Response time was long in my opinion (24 hours or more). I exchanged 9 messages with support and kept getting questions about settings in windows even though my issue was that the card wasn't POSTing.