AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards
 

Currently it’s HTPC use that puts the 5450 in the most favorable light. As the Cheese Slices test proved, it’s not quite the perfect HTPC card, but it’s very close. Certainly it’s the best passively cooled card we have tested from an image quality perspective, and it’s the only passive card with audio bitstreaming. If you specifically want or need Vector Adaptive Deinterlacing, the Radeon HD 5670 is still the cheapest/coolest/quietest card that’s going to meet your needs. But for everyone else the 5450 is plenty capable and is as close to being perfect as we’ve seen any bottom-tier card get.

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3734&p=1

More reviews:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...r3-review.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...eviews/hd5450/
http://mailbot.tweaktown.com/cgi-bin...rd/index.html/
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi..._hd5450_512mb/
http://www.pureoverclock.com/article903.html
http://techgage.com/article/atis_rad...ect_htpc_card/
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...55&Item id=72
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...eo_card_review

gaming performance doesn't matter one bit here; affordable, passive cooled, HDMI with sound out and low profile is what makes this card attractive :)