Bargain ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card in the Face-Off

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ATI officially launched its Radeon HD 5450 graphics card yesterday, and it promises to be a straightforward, affordable model in the £40 range.

It certainly isn't a card with gamers in mind.  Instead, its target audience is fans of Home Theatre PCs, computers that can you connect up to a TV to watch films, videos and other content.  The HDMI output can carry an audio signal as a bitstream, including Dolby Digital and DTS HD.  It will also help take some of the weight off the CPU when HD videos.

We'll be bringing you a full test very soon.  In the meantime, though, you can already see how well it performs compared to some of the other models we've tested in our product face-off.

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