A surprising amount of power for little money

As a replacement for my unusual X800 XT I have acquired the Club3D Radeon HD4650. My demands on the gaming performance is quite moderate, mostly I just play older games.
Still, I was surprised to find that the performance of the graphics card but is sufficient for most current games, as long as you can live at the resolution and level of detail to a lesser extent. It proposes the (admittedly old) X800 significantly.

Incidentally, I use the graphics card to be included in calculating public computing projects (BOINC, eg Collatz Conjecture). Performance-wise, can keep even the graphics card because it lacks, however, the double precision capability. However, one can not really expect that in this price range, so no drawback for me. Programmers will be pleased ATI Stream and OpenCL support the.

I had doubts whether the active cooling in my otherwise very quiet desktop PC is not too loud. But I was again pleasantly surprised: the fan of the graphics card is not to hear during normal operation in addition to a moderate quiet CPU / power supply fan. And in 3D mode you have to focus to the graphics card from the fan noise to hear.
For Silent computer I might still prefer the passively cooled version, but for the "normal" desktop it perfect.