lookin to buy soon

[mostickity]

ok, the other day i was at bestbuy and looking at gpu's.. now, i saw a pci geforce 7300 with 256 mb ddr3, for only 100 dollars..

[cheesegrater]

7300 is total crap. Stay away from all 7300! The 6600 is definately better. The 6600 is a gaming card, the 7300 is not!

The only decent 7300 I've seen is made by GAINWARD.

You must mean AGP or PCI-Express. They are two different graphics ports located on motherboards. PCI-Express is the newer and better one. It is 16x while AGP is 8x. Most motherboards have either a PCI-Express or AGP slot, not both. So if your motherboard has a AGP slot you can't use a PCI-Express card and vice versa.

If you upgrade the amount of speed increase will also depend on your system. If you have a really slow processor or a bad motherboard it would bottleneck your system, so a new video card wouldn't be much of an improvement. Also, the only AGP 7600 is the slower GS model which isn't a gigantic improvement over the 6600. The 7800 is one of the fastest AGP cards though.

Memory doesn't mean much. The clock speed, amount of pixel pipelines, memory bandwidth, fill rate, and vertices per second tell you more about how fast a card is. For some reason video card manufacturers never tell you these stats. I suggest looking at hardware reviews.

[mostickity]

yea thanku! i jut went to nvidias website an d looked at their specs. that sucks cuz my card is AGP, and i hear that the 6800 was the last of the AGP's cards  ??? hmm oh well...ill just save for a new computer thanks m8!

[Fozzer]

Before PCI-Express motherboards were introduced, the older Motherboards (like mine) had just "ordinary" PCI slots for modems, sound cards, etc, and an AGP slot for graphics cards.
Very old graphics cards (3DFX Voodoo, etc) were designed to fit into the (slower) PCI slots.

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