BFG Tech GeForce 7300GT

[CJCerny]

$55 for that card is a crime. Maybe $15-20 on eBay--on a good day.

 

[Black Panther]

Ok guys the only thing i learned is that my 7300GT is shit and Crysis is popular ...what about the memory slide in ATI Tool 0.26 ???? Is it vga card slide or my kingston ram memory ??

People here are mentioning Crysis because it's kind of a bench-mark game - the main reason is that if a graphics card can run Crysis then it can run any game currently on the market, and hence is a good card.

Ok guys thx for the answers so continue to fight alone i have no more time to see geeks fightinh on a out-of-date vga card that they dont even own and dont even use

I must be missing out something? I read the whole thread but failed to notice the "fighting"

Listen, there was no need to feel hurt (don't say no because your above post is screaming 'hurt!!')... Rest assured no one is making fun of you.

The only thing you did wrong was that you came for advice after you bought the card, and to top it all.... sorry but you did buy a very very low-end card. That's why I suggested in a previous post that you return it to the store and buy an 8600GT for $45.

By analogy, it's like you bought a piece of furniture thinking it was genuine antique and solid wood... you write on an antiques enthusiasts forum on the best way to take care of this 'antique'.... and the members there point out that it's just an imitation MDF/chip-board worth nothing...

Now - will you find people on an Antiques Furniture Forum posting about their imitation cardboard furniture? Nope.... that's the main reason why you haven't yet found anyone who's got a 7300GT, because we're pc enthusiasts.

Please don't let this thread put you off. Everyone here was trying to help you. No one is born computer-savvy, we all have to start somewhere. The more you read posts here and the more questions you ask, the more you'll learn.
(And next time make a thread asking for advice before you make your purchase )
Feel free to send me a pm if you need anything OK?

 

[HossHuge]

I finished both Bioshock and Crysis with my old 7300gt AGP and a single core Athlon@2.6. everything was set to the lowest possible. It did get buggy during Crysis. If your playing old school games like Prey/Serious Sam or sports games it would be fine.

 

[MohawkAngel]

Help is a precise fact and opinion related but how could everyone be able to help me if you cant say the same thing on this vga card? Too much arguing and no really technically verified specs. Anyway ill find somewhere else the specs but thanks for some useful comments.

Well, if you bothered to read your own thread, there are a few people that have commented that have or did own your video card and for the people that dont own it, we look at reviews

You are acting ungrateful, I haven't seen you thank anyone that has helped you with your overclocking or thanked the people that helped you understand the difference between video ram and system memory. Ungrateful.


Edit:

Believe it or not we are not arguing. We are just trying to evaluate your product, trying to grasp what it is equivalent to so we can get a better idea of how it should perform on yesterday's and today's games. This entire "argument" is in your best interest as you are suppose to be learning new information every time one community member challenges another. Its all friendly.

 

[Darren]

Help is a precise fact and opinion related but how could everyone be able to help me if you cant say the same thing on this vga card?

So if you are denying that you were helped I'll just delete post #27 where I explained the software needed to overclock your GPU such as Riva Tuner and the procedures necessary to ensure the OC is stable.

Ok I will delete post #66 where I explained the difference between video memory and system memory.

May as well delete it, since it didn't help you.

cdawall should delete his posts since he clearly didn't help you understand about the memory variations

Black Panther should delete post #69 where he recommended that you download Evga Precision to further OC your 7300 GT

 

[Black Panther]

Too much arguing and no really technically verified specs. Anyway ill find somewhere else the specs but thanks for some useful comments.

I sense a lot of misunderstanding going around here.
I never thought you were just looking for the specs of your graphics card...

Okay, let's start somewhere.

There are 2 types of BFG GeForce 7300 GT 512 MB, one is AGP and the other is PCI-E.
You'll get to know which one yours is either by looking at the packaging box (BFG nearly always put a picture on the box of the slot type) or else check what motherboard you have and we can tell you which slot it has and hence which version of 7300GT you possess.

There are also 2 versions, one with DDR2 memory and another with GDDR3 memory.

I've been trying to google for a comparison between the 7300GT and 8600GTS but in vain because the cards are so different they can't compete with each other.

However, if you wish, download GPU-Z, post a screenshot, and I'll compare it with the specifications of an 8600GTS and of other cards.

 

[cdawall]

I think OC the card made performance worse, not to mention you might of been using the wrong drivers, or your motherboard is weak or something. You said medium to high settings at 1280x1024 20fps? Well 1280x1024 is a easy resolution for the game, thats the resolution i use for crysis, anything lower and i lose performance. Now depending on what settings you had on high, yea that really can kill performance.

You put shaders on high, on that card, yea your performance will dip big deal. The card from the stats look pretty good with high bandwidth. I don't know, but as i said high settings depending which visual settings is on high, can put a strain on your fps. But the stats on that card is pretty good IMO, GDDR3, with over 30GB of bandwidth, at 1320 DDR using AGP, and you get 20fps?

Yea sounds like a driver issue or more like your motherboard.

do you really think you know its not worth my time....bandwidth makes a difference but my FPS weren't exactly lower than the reivews of a 8600GTS which my card should be the equal of. the fact that i was running crysis on a 3400+ 2GB of DDR1 and a 7800GS was a feat in itself. now you can sit there and say i didnt use the right drivers? i went thru about 3 complete reinstall of XP using several drivers. the mobo ran several AGP 4x and 8x cards without and issue and is still running today so if its the mobo apparently it didn't get the memo.


not to mention the OC did improve performance.

my new settings

this is THE lowest FPS i have gotten in the game with my settings

i took SS when mostly when the FPS started to dip it normally was around 20FPS or so

 

[DrPepper]

Here's the official spcs for the 7300GT

* Graphics Bus: PCI Express
* Memory Interface: 128-bit
* Memory Bandwidth: 10.7 GB/s
* Fill Rate: 2.8 billion pixel/s
* Vertex/s: 350 million
* Memory Type: DDR-III

Source: Wikipedia
7300GT was the fastest of the 7300 series.