Geforce 7300, any good?

What games do you intend on playing and what resolution do you use. Most current games will play on it, but you will need to keep the resolution down, as well as most visual settings at low. It really isn't that good of a card. If you can, I would aim for something a little better. What is your budget (and where are you located?). It may run you a little more (albiet not much), but a nvidia 8500/8600 or ATI x2600 series card would be a whole lot better.

yes the 7300gs 512mb can play crysis, i hav one it can play crysis only on low 800x600 resolution and lags after a few hours of playing.

For under $300 i don;t think the best u can do is with an integrated graphics but that should still be able to run counter strike source, not sure about half life. You should spend a bit more for gaming.

I have an Asus 7300GT passive cooled with 256 MB memory. With an e6750@3.2 and 2gb of ddr2 800 I play COD4 at 1680x1050 . NFS Carbon plays well at medium with the highest resolution it supports. I've run NFS Pro Street also. Simply put a strong processor in the rig so that it can calculate the high amount of polygons. Unfortunately the VC is not beefy enough to display all of the eyecandy. It would suffice for basic playing though.

Is that really "playing" Crysis? If the OP has any intention of playing Crysis, he needs to be looking at AT LEAST a mid-range card.

And I think it's worthing mentioning that there is a huge difference between a 7300 GS and a 7300 GT.

Even though you are on a really tight budget, I can see no point getting a 7300GS, and especially a 512mb one.
Its barely a step up from intergrated graphics, so you'd save money getting a motherboard with its own GPU.

I'd say spend another £20 and an 8600GT:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142592

Than can play Source based games at max, and new games suchas COD4 and Crysis as med/high at lowish resolutions well. And this ones an XFX so its a good brand too.

I agree with San pedro, the difference between low end and midrange is day and night.

Also even if you are indeed going to get a 7300, don't buy 512MB version, that much of frame buffer is useless for such a card, it should benefit more from faster rather than bigger memory.

get a 780g mobos. It has a powerful integrated graphics card, probably much more powerful than the 7300. Later on u can get a cheap 3470 and do like hybrid xfire.

Are all 8600gt cards xfx?

Plus if I buy one what resolution will I be able to play crysis on med-to-high at? 1024?

No, there are many different brands of 8600's. XFX, EVGA and BFG are all good brands with good warranties.

I don't know for certain (as I haven't tried Crysis on my 8600GT), but I would imagine it would be playable on low-med settings at that resolution.

I don't know, I have never used one. I am sure someone here can tell you, though.

I've decided to go with the 8600gt for now mactronix. But I had a very tight budget as I mentioned.

No worries just to let you know a lot of people have reported getting good overclocks from those cards, I recon you will get crisis at about 1024x768 without AA all set on low.
Happy gaming
Mactronix

Yup, the 7300GS has only 4 pixelshaders, where as the 7300GT actualy has 8 pixelshaders, so it makes a huge difference between the cards...