bruinator Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Guys, I have this mobo Motherboard Asus Z170M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard and I have an ATI AMD radeon HD 5450 laying around. Could I use this on this mobo? If yes, is it better than the integrated card on the mobo? Plz let me know. thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 That motherboard supports pci express three point zero and your video card is pci express two point zero if Im not mistaken it should work. I think the radeon is better as the radeon has GDDRFive memory I dont think the integrated video card has GDDRFive memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
player Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 2 hours ago, bruinator said: is it better than the integrated card on the mobo? since 2010 the integrated GPU has migrated to the CPU. your CPU should hosts an "HD 530". according to here, it is much better than Radeon HD 5450. 2 hours ago, Holmes said: I think the radeon is better as the radeon has GDDRFive memory here's a catch, HD5450 is an entry model which uses GDDR3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp3it Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 The integrated video uses shared memory. Maximum shared memory of 512MB. Before inserting the Raedon run a speed test using a program like AIDA64, 3DMark or SISoftware. Just do a search for benchmark on this site. If you are using Win7 you could also try using the Windows experience Index. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
player Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 18 minutes ago, mp3it said: The integrated video uses shared memory. Maximum shared memory of 512MB. according to the official spec, it has a maximum shared memory of 1024 MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 3 hours ago, bruinator said: Guys, I have this mobo Motherboard Asus Z170M-PLUS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard and I have an ATI AMD radeon HD 5450 laying around. Could I use this on this mobo? If yes, is it better than the integrated card on the mobo? Plz let me know. thx For what purpose do you need a discrete GPU? The "HD 530" that comes with the i5-6500 can do basic gaming. If you are not playing Hardcore games or editing videos, I won't recommend a discrete GPU. Build your primary deskrop first. Other addon components like the GPU, you can add later. And for your choice, the AMD HD 5450 is not a GPU to complement a 6th gen core i5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 14, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 14, 2016 As I had mentioned earlier, as per the benchmarks, the build-in graphics of your CPU is more powerful than the AMD 5450. Now, unless somehow you manage to run dual graphics, which I think is only possible in the latest DirectX or maybe not possible at all, AMD 5450 will not be any use for you I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
player Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 7 minutes ago, DKT27 said: unless somehow you manage to run dual graphics, which I think is only possible in the latest DirectX or maybe not possible at all, AMD 5450 will not be any use for you I think. HD5450 don't support DX12 so that's out of the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 14, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 14, 2016 4 minutes ago, player said: HD5450 don't support DX12 so that's out of the question. Forgot about that. So out of question to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruinator Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 on board best so thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I couldnt find what the integrated video card name was my bad and I was thinking after I posted that the fiftyfourfifty was not really as good thank you for the correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Israeli_Eagle Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 All integrated video cards are somehow only wannabe-GPU, nothing real to use. Enough to display the desktop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 20 hours ago, bruinator said: on board best so thx. use your 5450, it's better than your CPU's integrated GPU in every possible way because you have a less than average i5 CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 15, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 15, 2016 I have owned AMD 5450, it's absolute BS. It is one of the most useless card I have used and I have used cards from the time AMD used to make their own cards. The reason I say the build-in is better because, while there are not many benchmarks available, I think this suggests that the build-in GPU is better here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLONN7 Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 1 hour ago, DKT27 said: I have owned AMD 5450, it's absolute BS. It is one of the most useless card I have used and I have used cards from the time AMD used to make their own cards. The reason I say the build-in is better because, while there are not many benchmarks available, I think this suggests that the build-in GPU is better here. You could not have been more perfect in word choice... When we observe that the link leads to "ordinary users benchmarks", with different configurations, poorly done or not, it should not take that into account ... at least not by me... Play the games you have in both configurations, with and without the HD5450, and your satisfaction will give you the answer you seek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 The reason for which intel HD 530 will be preferred is being with Skylake it will use DDR4 memory where the AMD HD 5450 uses DDR3. This will show major performance improvements over HD 5450 while used higher bandwidth DDR4 sticks. HD 5450 is just an old entry level card and HD 530 a latest thing. Although it is integrated, it does hold enough firepower to beat HD 5450. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 16, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 16, 2016 18 hours ago, WALLONN7 said: You could not have been more perfect in word choice... When we observe that the link leads to "ordinary users benchmarks", with different configurations, poorly done or not, it should not take that into account ... at least not by me... Play the games you have in both configurations, with and without the HD5450, and your satisfaction will give you the answer you seek. As you say, we can never be sure unless we test ourselves. All this is also limited by the lack of proper benchmarks or comparisons available. TH did a benchmark, with 6450, which is a faster than 5450. See the last chart. While we can say they are testing processors quite powerful than mentioned here and the GPU speed is slightly higher, 1050 vs 1150 MHz, it does give us some idea about the performance of 5450, if, that is, they have tested that card with a powerful / same CPU. Here are some more specifications of putting them in a though competition. I would not be saying this, but I have personally used XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB for couple of years, I am well aware of it's lack of power. While using it, I found a graphics card made a few years ago was beating it by a long way. Infact, I can go onto say that it is one of the rare graphics cards which can be beaten by a build-in GPU of a processor I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Israeli_Eagle Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 4 hours ago, DKT27 said: As you say, we can never be sure unless we test ourselves. All this is also limited by the lack of proper benchmarks or comparisons available. TH did a benchmark, with 6450, which is a faster than 5450. See the last chart. While we can say they are testing processors quite powerful than mentioned here and the GPU speed is slightly higher, 1050 vs 1150 MHz, it does give us some idea about the performance of 5450, if, that is, they have tested that card with a powerful / same CPU. Here are some more specifications of putting them in a though competition. I would not be saying this, but I have personally used XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB for couple of years, I am well aware of it's lack of power. While using it, I found a graphics card made a few years ago was beating it by a long way. Infact, I can go onto say that it is one of the rare graphics cards which can be beaten by a build-in GPU of a processor I think. The worst is shared memory! Half time CPU vs GPU are only waiting... That remembers me automatically the old Amiga ChipRAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruinator Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 too many opinions for a informative answer. Right now, intel and MS cant get the correct driver for the damn on board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLONN7 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 16 minutes ago, bruinator said: too many opinions for a informative answer. Right now, intel and MS cant get the correct driver for the damn on board. Forget Windows 10!!! My last tip... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Israeli_Eagle Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 52 minutes ago, WALLONN7 said: Forget Windows 10!!! My last tip... Maybe the board is not spyware compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLONN7 Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 1 minute ago, Israeli_Eagle said: Maybe the board is not spyware compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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