eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS PCI Express Video Card - 256 MB GPU

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eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS MB GPU
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  1. Personal Computers
  2. Platforms: Windows XP
  3. Publisher: EVGA
  4. Sales Rank in Electronics: #57833

Product Review

Boasting the 3D graphics and video features of today most advanced graphics processing units (GPUs), the NVIDIA Geforce 7300GS GPU delivers ultra-realistic gaming effects and stunning, high-definition video without compromising performance. For the performance and features you need to play the latest games and enjoy home-theater quality video, make sure your PC is equipped with a Geforce 7300GS.

Amazon.com Product Review

The eVGA 256-P2-N436-LX NVIDIA e-GeForce 7300GS 256 MB Graphics Card with S-Video features 256 MB of 64-bit DDR2 memory with a 4.264 GB-per-second memory bandwidth. Boasting the 3-D graphics features of today's most advanced GPUs--including full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and true high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting--the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS 550 MHz graphics processing unit (GPU) allows you to experience the latest gaming effects without compromising performance.

UltraShadow II technology enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects. This second-generation technology delivers more than four times the shadow processing power over the previous generation. The card's Intellisample 3.0 technology offers the fastest antialiasing you'll find anywhere and delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. 64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending, based on the OpenEXR technology from Industrial Light & Magic, sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. And its integrated HDTV Encoder provides world-class HDTV-out functionality up to and including 1920x1080i resolutions.

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Average Customer Review
3.9 out of 5 stars (19 customer reviews)

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Just enough, January 9, 2007
R. K. McClure - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS PCI Express Video Card - 256 MB GPU (Personal Computers)
I bought this card because I was in a particular jam. I had to tailor my video card purchase not to my bank account, but to my power supply. The eVGA card was one of the few decent cards that would work with a 250w power supply, which is what my Dell box has. I know the eVGA box says 300w minimum, but their website says 250w. The card works GREAT for Battlefield 2142, the reason I bought the card. I even have the details cranked up to medium and am now seeing things that I didn't see at the low setting. No lag induced by the eVGA video card and again, if you like Battlefield 2142, this is a GREAT, inexpensive way to get into the game


8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars So far, the tests are dismal, February 10, 2007
madman "citysimian" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS PCI Express Video Card - 256 MB GPU (Personal Computers)
I picked this for the same reason as another reviewer: my very small power supply wouldn't adequately power a big beefy graphics card. This is the only halfway modern card I could find that would run on the weak juice I had to feed it. Unfortunately, thus far the search looks like a wasted effort.

I'm not yet prepared to say it's a dog, because I haven't sat down and tweaked it, reinstalled drivers, and had a chat with the tech people at EVGA (who are actually in the US, and at work 24 hours a day, and are knowledgeable, friendly, and efficient) to try to goose this card up.

But I did benchmark it with 3DMark, both the 2006 and 2005 versions, and I was shocked at the results: off-the-scale slow. Comatose. Flatline. Frame rates of 2 per second. Animation that looked like slide shows. When I posted my results online, I was about 20th from the bottom, out of tens of thousands.

If this is as good as it gets, it's just no good at all, and no better than the...Read more


5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Fan Noise is Very Loud & High Pitched, March 2, 2007
Wannabe Librarian - See all my reviews
This review is from: eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS PCI Express Video Card - 256 MB GPU (Personal Computers)
CONS:

- Fan noise is very loud & irritating, causing me to return the item to Amazon. (This problem was also noted by a reviewer at NewEgg, who returned the item for a video card with passive heating.)
- Did not increase Vista rating for 3D gaming graphics. (I got a Vista rating of 3.0 for 3D graphics, which is the same rating I had before on the same system using the onboard ATI Radeon Xpress 200, which only has 128 MB of shared memory).

PROS:

- Increased Vista rating for Desktop Aero experience from 2.0 to 2.8.

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