Radeon HD 6670 for Media playback use only?

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I am currently looking for a cheap video card to put into my HTPC.

I was originally just looking to get a new MSI GT 710 for retail price, but a chance popped up and I was offered a used HIS Radeon HD 6670 1GB Isilence5 for $20.

This card will only be used for media and bluray playback and I know absolutely nothing about ATI/AMD cards.

Bonus points is this GPU is fanless for less noise.

Con is its a 2011 era card.

It will be paired with an AMD 5053 CPU on an ASRock AM1B-ITX with 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 memory.

Is this a worthy video card for my needs?
 
AMD has effectively stopped updating the drivers for many legacy parts, including anything older than the Radeon HD 7000 series, and even including the bottom end of the 7000 series itself.

Do yourself a favor and pony-up for a Radeon RX 460 or a GeForce 1050.
 
If ALL you are doing is video playback, than either low-end solution from either AMD or Nvidia will work fine for you.
 
EchoWars said:
AMD has effectively stopped updating the drivers for many legacy parts, including anything older than the Radeon HD 7000 series, and even including the bottom end of the 7000 series itself.

Do yourself a favor and pony-up for a Radeon RX 460 or a GeForce 1050.
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Thank you for your reply, I will explore other options and not go for the 6670.
 
Seluryar said:
I am currently looking for a cheap video card to put into my HTPC.

I was originally just looking to get a new MSI GT 710 for retail price, but a chance popped up and I was offered a used HIS Radeon HD 6670 1GB Isilence5 for $20.

This card will only be used for media and bluray playback and I know absolutely nothing about ATI/AMD cards.

Bonus points is this GPU is fanless for less noise.

Con is its a 2011 era card.

It will be paired with an AMD 5053 CPU on an ASRock AM1B-ITX with 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 memory.

Is this a worthy video card for my needs?
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It should work just fine:
Drivers support Win 10/8.1/7
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows 7 - 64

Offer him/her $10 - it is not worth $20 at this stage. I have a 6670 GDDR5 version in the closet - It played back Blu-Rays just fine and could use all of AMD's enhancements which worked great, that was on Vista. The non DDR version I think was more limited on the video enhancements.
 
I don't think you need a video card at all. You should be fine running the IGP.
 
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