6600GT or 7300GS

Hi guys,

I am currently looking for a new graphics card. I saw the 7300GS but I am not sure about this card. I currently have a Chaintech GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 PCI-E OC'ed to 575/1300 over the STD 500/1000.

I can get a Sparkle 7300GS 256MB DDR2 for abour ZAR 800 as I am in South Africa , ZAR800 = +/- $130.00.

Will ity be a performance DOWNGRADE if I go for the 7300 as I saw on some site( can't remember) it gets about 2500 on 3DMark05 @ 1024x768 and I get 4400 with my 6600GT, but I am not sure if this is true!

Your help will be appriciated.

THANKS

The 7300GS would be a huge downgrade from a 6600GT. The thing has 4/3 pipelines and a 64-bit memory bus* = slowness. It's great for a media center PC - it supports HD video decoding in hardware and it's low-power - but if you want to do any serious gaming at all, avoid it like the plague.


* It boggles my mind that companies are still putting out 64-bit cards. The TNT (it's been, what, 7-8 years now?) proved what a POS that idea is, and I find it inexcusable to keep fooling consumers this way. (I bought an M64 - back then , I didn't know any better)