HIS H545H1GD1 Radeon HD 5450 Silence 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express x1 Low Profile Video Card with Eyefinity

Pros: Works great to accelerate Windows visuals on a server. Driver installation was easy and without issues on Windows 2008 Server R2. Zero issues so far. Install and forget. More than reasonable price. They could probably get away with charging a lot more for such a specialized product.

Cons: None yet.

Overall Review: Got a Supermicro barebones and figured the integrated Matrox graphics would be sufficient. Boy was that not true. Even with a monitor connected directly, all Windows effects disabled, and twin Xeon x5690's idling with 32GB RAM, display was horribly laggy. No PCIe 16x slots in this barebones, so it was great to find this wonderful 1x option. I was initially skeptical about how well a 1x graphics card could perform. Installed this card with included driver, which was a snap, set BIOS to boot with offboard graphics, and that's it -- the difference is like night and day. Installed Windows 7 Experience, enabled desktop composition service, Aero theme and all effects, and the display now zooooms. No detectable resource hit. Beautiful. Highly recommended.

Pros: I needed an X1 card and this one had good reviews. I installed it in a Ubuntu Linux system and added the fglrx driver for it. It runs great although I don't have a lot of time with it yet--so far so good. Video is very responsive and super crisp. I am running OpenGL 3D acceleration just fine with it. I am using it with xbmc media player software and it really rocks on the video performance. The build-in Intel graphics that I had on my motherboard basically sucked. This card gave my system the video performance it needed for Linux and xbmc.

Cons: No cons, it is working perfectly.

Overall Review: I wanted a passive cooling card that would fit in an X1 slot that provided an exceptional graphics experience. This one can fit in any PCI Express slot. X16, X8, X4, and X1. It performs very well.

Pros: Does what it says on the tin. Someone said this isn't a gaming card, but it seems to be doing a very good job with the games I've tried. Saints Row the third runs nearly mint on it (gets a little choppy if too many close range explosions). Second Life also runs well on high video settings with little to no lag. Overall a very good card for the money.

Cons: Haven't found any yet but only owned it a couple days.

Overall Review: Probably going to get one of these as a gift for my friend that has the same PCI-E x1 limitation I have.

Pros: Best graphics card for the pci express x1 so get it and enjoy some kick but games cause this sucker performs to the max. I play Flight Simulator X on it with highest settings and pull 20-25 frames easily.

Cons: None

Overall Review: MUST HAVE FOR PCI EXPRESS X1 USERS!!!!!

Pros: I have several IBM servers that have main board video that is okay for server rooms but not so good at my house. I bought this card to get just a little better performance and to be able to drive my 1920x1200 monitor. Plugged card into an IBM x3650 and booted Debian Linux. It worked perfectly, nothing had to be done. Not sure if this matters but note that I had previously installed the non-free linux-firmware package and made sure that the Bios was at the current revision.

Cons: None

Pros: Compatible with my HP dc5700 computer. Plays GTA4 and COD MW 3 with high settings even with a Pentium D CPU. 6.5 Windows 7 score

Cons: 64bit

Overall Review: I purchased this for my HP dc5700 low profile computer. The ADD2 SDVO PCIe port on the computer is not compatible with any PCI-Express 16X video cards so I was beginning to think I was going to be out of luck to make this a media center pc however it has 1 PCIe 1x port which this card works flawlessly in.

Pros: My Dimension E310 only has PCI-e x1. I was using a PCI video card and was having trouble running dual 1080p monitors and Win7 32. This card cleared up the stuttering. Work, web and video now run smoothly.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Will probably buy another for my other E310 running Ubuntu 11.10

Pros: Perfect upgrade for my Dell Dimension 3100. If you have one of these computers, you know that upgrading can be difficult. Installation was very simple.

Cons: Installation instructions are for a wide range of cards (not specific to this one) and can be misleading.

Overall Review: I bought this card as the best option for my PCI express x1. I use this computer for CAD drafting and needed just that little bit more and this fit the bill. Installation was eay, although getting the settings just right for my Dell 22 monitor was a bit of trial and error. This card is not necessarily plug and play, but if you have some expirience upgrading computers, you should be able to get what you want out of it.