Are these video cards good for something ?

For my birthday im going to get a video card.

My parents have set a limit of price for the video cards, and if i would buy a video card the best i could buy from that money is a Geforce 7300 GS or 7200GS. This price limit is because my dad doesnt want to just throw money for things like this, and i dont botter it because now i use an integrated intel 950 GMA so a video card would be better.



I am not looking for the best gaming performance, It is ok if the game is playable. The problem is that i dont know whats with that bandwith, my intel gma 950 has a bandwith of 10 GB/s and it has a memory interface of 256 bit or something like that, and the Geforce 7300 and 7200 GS have only 6 GB/s bandwith and a memory interface of 64 bit..



Does this matters or its not a big deal?



By the way will company of heroes work with the Geforce 7200 or 7300 GS ?|||Those graphics cards will hardly be an improvement over what you have. Both are terrible. As a general rune for four digit graphics cards, if the second digit xXxx (that one) is less than six, it will be bad. The cards you mentioned are barely more than card versions of integrated graphics, as they have a few stream processors, shaders, and are clocked slowly in addition to having low memory bandwidth and slow memory access. All that makes a slow card. To make your money count you HAVE to buy online.



This eVga GeForce 8600 GT for $50 with rebate is about the best deal you can get right now, and will give you a good gaming experience. Probably pull medium settings at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 in most games if not better. This card is nice with GDDR3 (faster memory) and it's 128-bit memory interface won't really hurt you much unless you want to play above 1280x1024 with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering. Memory bandwidth is important for how many pixels.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



If you can make the Jump to $100 with rebate, the Radeon HD 3850 should double the peroformance of the 8600 GT. It's pretty rare not to get diminishing returns, but here you certainly don't. This card will max EVERY GAME with the exception of Crysis.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Just for refence, a 512mb 3850 should pull between 50-70gb memory bandwidth, meaning it will kick at Hi Res. The 8600 GT has about 22gb memory bandwidth. That said, there's more to it than that (btw, bit interface helps determine memory bandwidth), and since both cards have more processors working way fasters, I would guess that either card would be 10-20 times faster than the 7300GT.



None of the cards you said can touch company, cept MAYBE at very bare minimum. But it'll look like starcraft, so what's the point.

7300 will play a few newer games on minimum, so I guess it's an improvement. I think I may have exaggerated how bad it was above, but really, it's weak weak weak.|||Nvidia cards with GS are cut down versions with less pipes than the GTs, if you see LE thats a media center type of card which is pretty useless.



I'd recommend either a ATI Radeon 1650pro or Nvidia 7600GT... they are not too expensive and still decent cards.