AMD Radeon 6450 512MB Graphics Card Review

AcousticsNoise is generally the bain of most consumers lives and in the hope of finding the quietest operation, we feel it’s necessary to show you the audio level of components. We use the same components throughout this test and use a sound level meter to record the audio level of the system with a passive graphics card installed. Once we have the level recorded with the passive card, we continue to change the graphics card for the one that we are testing. Due to us having the audio level recorded before installation, it gives us a guide to work with and shows that anything over our initial level is an audio gain.

The 6450 has an annoyingly small fan, and i say this as they are generally quite noisy. The fan isn’t overly noisy but doesn’t differentiate between idle and load much at all meaning that you can hear the faint whine no matter what.