eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS 256 MB GPU

Average customer rating: 4.0

Economical card to upgrade to Vista
Works great for me....
Fan Noise is Very Loud & High Pitched
Excellent performance.
So far, the tests are dismal

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eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS 256 MB GPU

Manufacturer: EVGA
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000EG5VBS

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Product Description

Founded in 1999, EVGA has grown exponentially in the channel, serving the system builder, distribution and retail markets with products that offer the highest in quality and customer satisfaction, thereby making the computing experience transparent to the hardware in the box.PRODUCT FEATURES:UltraShadow II Technology;Intellisample 3.0 Technology;Integrated HDTV Encoder;TurboCache;Adaptable Programmable Video Processor;64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending;Unified Driver Architecture (UDA);nView Multi-Display Technology;Digital Vibrance Control 3.0 Technology;PCI Express Certified;NVIDIA PureVideo Technology;128-Bit Studio-Precision Computation;Full-Speed 32-Bit Color Precision;Integrated TV Encoder;Dual 400MHz RAMDACs;Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Optimizations and Support.

Customer Reviews:

Economical card to upgrade to Vista.......2007-05-06

I purchased this card simply to be able to use all the features in Vista. I'd never bothered with a video card before because I don't play video games so what came with the computer is usually enough for me. The card was easy to install and I've had no problems with it. If you are a power graphics/video user this probably won't meet your needs but if you're like me and just need a little more video power for Vista this is a good solution.

Works great for me...........2007-03-11

The eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GS is just what I needed to play the type of games I play......My computer had intergrated video before and that just didn't cut it....With my 288 power supply it works great and was a snap to install...Also very good service from Amazon....

Fan Noise is Very Loud & High Pitched .......2007-03-03

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.

Excellent performance........2007-02-21

The graphs, the resolution, the speed are excellent. Totally compatible as much with Windows as with Linux (Ubuntu Debian).

So far, the tests are dismal.......2007-02-11

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 cheapo integrated graphics. This is by now an antiquated, midrange-economy model, and my expectations were appropriately low, but this performance still disappointed. The three stars are for the impressive EVGA support, for the reasonable price (the stores are full of even older, lamer cards for higher prices), and for my hope that I may yet make this thing sing.

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