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Please HELP UPGRADE my Radeon HD 5450

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  • Graphics
  • Overheat
  • HD
  • Radeon
July 25, 2014 7:46:16 PM

I'm fairly sure my old Radeon HD 5450 is failing as I get video lockups and then bluescreened. The temp of the GPU hits about 68C (from what I can tell using Open Hardware Monitor) and then I get the BSOD.

Here's what I have:

Dell XPS Studio 7100 - bought around November 2011.
8gb DDR3 RAM
Two 1gb WD hard drives
460W PSU
ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB GPU

For the replacement I'd like to stay around $300.

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: ASAP

USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Studio audio editing using Reaper as a DAW. It's very CPU and GPU intensive. Other than that, I use it to watch Netflix, 1080p videos and to play Bioshock.


CURRENT GPU AND POWER SUPPLY: ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB - 460W PSU.

OTHER RELEVANT SYSTEM SPECS: AMD Phenom II 1035T with 6 cores. Dell MoBo OGK1K2.

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: newegg.com

PARTS PREFERENCES: An AMD card would be preferable as it would integrate nicely with the CPU.

OVERCLOCKING: No

MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1920x1080

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: As long as I'm here, one of my IT8721F chips is running at about 70C temperature-wise. That sounds pretty high to me, and this makes me wonder if the two overheating probs are related. Maybe not.

Thanks!

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