Today we are looking at a new video card form ATI called the Radeon HD 3450. This card is the perfect card for a HTPC machine.

The MSRP is under $50 and the card offloads all the video rendering from the CPU allowing you to use a processor with less power and less heat output. If you are looking to build a HTPC system this card may be just what you need.

Review excerpt: “The ATI Radeon HD 3450 has 181 million transistors and is built on a 55nm process. The card has the previously mentioned 40 stream processors, four texture units and four render backends. The clock speed for the card is 600MHz on the core and 1GHz on the memory. DirectX 10.1 and ATI PowerPlay are supported as well. One of the best features of the ATI Radeon HD 3450 is the price, the card will retail for $49.” Read the full ATI Radeon HD 3450 review here.