Thoughts, HEXUS.awards & HEXUS.right2reply
It seems clear that the eVGA e-GeForce 7300 GT 256MB has no real business calling itself a GT, or even in many respects a GS. The MSI is quicker in our tests and the XFX is by and large twice as quick. And it's not that it was mispacked and mistaken for a 7300 GT either, eVGA shipping its 7300 GS with a completely different heatsink. That the heatsink is, in our opinion, overly noisy and without any thermostatic control means that we honestly struggle to know what to say about it. Surely it deserves its memory bus width printed somewhere on the packaging, or on the website where the 128MiB version is clearly marked as being only 64-bit? As it stands, this halfway version doesn't even seem to exist on eVGA's product pages.The XFX version performs as you'd expect, although it's a bit disappointing to see them underclock the DRAMs compared to the reference specification. That it's passive is a positive selling point, but performance for the price is a little underwhelming in the face of 450MHz 7300 GTs with 400MHz memory from other vendors, with passive cooling, for less money. Therefore we can't recommend the XFX either.
With 256MiB Radeon X1300 XTs available for much the same money, at least here in the UK, there's little incentive to pick up a GeForce 7300 GT at current price levels unless the price difference really matters to you.
Neither GeForce 7300 GT SKU on test today comes recommended, and definitely not in any way in the case of the eVGA. Unless we're entirely mistaken, it's completely misadvertised as a GeForce 7300 GT of any kind.
HEXUS.certifications
XFX GeForce 7300 GT 256MB DDRII
