Hi guys. Need advice with video cards.

[Phantom73]

Hello everyone, i have a quandry at the moment, basically I shelled out recently for a new board, processor and memory to upgrade my old, tired PC.

The problem is i'm not sure what graphics card to get, so I guess I came here to see if i could get some advice.

I'm looking at the nVidia 7300 PCi-E series and theres I guess, around 3 that I am interested in, but totally unsure which to get.

I am on a tight budget so price is a factor also.

Here is my PC Spec so far to hopefully get the replys started.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ @ 2.44 Ghz
2x 1GB DDR II RAM Which uses "Dual Channel Memory Technology".
AsRock AM2NF6G-VSTA Motherboard.

The only thing I need is a decent enough graphics card, I guess the benchmark game I would like to be able to run smoothly is somthing like Battlefield 2142, or along those lines.

the cards i am interested in are:

1) 256MB Xpertvision Geforce 7300GT Sonic PCI Express TV Out DVI Card
http://www.spotonuk.com/info~Itemcd~1110778~Frm~S~MainCat~Components~ItmDe sc~256MB+Xpertvision+Geforce+7300GT+Sonic++PCI+Exp ress+TV+Out+DVI+Graphics+Card~Make~XPERTVISION~Mod elNo~NE%2F730TS%2BTD21V06010633.htm

2) 256MB Xpertvision Geforce 7300GT SLI PCI Express x16 TV Out DVI Card
http://www.spotonuk.com/info~Itemcd~1110741~Frm~S~MainCat~Components~ItmDe sc~256MB+Xpertvision+Geforce+7300GT+SLI+PCI+Expres s+x16+TV+Out+DVI+Card~Make~XPERTVISION~ModelNo~730 0T%2BTD21%2DPM8B73.htm

3) 256MB/512MB Xpertvision GeForce 7300GS PCI Express TV Out DVI Card
http://www.spotonuk.com/info~Itemcd~1110808~Frm~S~MainCat~Components~ItmDe sc~256MB%2F512MB+Xpertvision+GeForce+7300GS+PCI+Ex press+TV+Out+DVI+Card~Make~XPERTVISION~ModelNo~XNE %2B7300G%2BTD26%2DPM8072.htm

They are all roughly the same price. But i was wondering about "Shared Memory" and PCI Experss x16 (I ideally want to get one that runs at 16x.)

So do all these cards run at 16x? and whats the deal with the Shared Memory to boost up to 512mb.. does this make the bottom card better because of this?

Thanks for reading, I would really like some feedback on this - which would be the best one to go for and could you answer my previous questions about shared memory, and if they all use 16x?

Thanks, Phantom.

[delambo]

Hi Phantom, your post was picked upby the spam filter and moved to the spam bin. I re-instated your post for you. Sorry I cant help with advise for you but now hopefully someone else will help you.

[nathan123]

I have a 7300GT and they are good cards, but you won't get full useage from the rest of the system from one, im pretty sure the card will bottleneck at a point, although i'd say you should be able to play most games fine with it, i have a 3000+ at 1.8GHz and 1gb of ram and my 7300GT works fine at medium GFX on half life 2