GeForce 7600 VS. GeForce 7300 'supporting'

[cronus88]

Hello everyone, i've got a question about a video card i want to buy, and i was hoping someone here could help me

The trouble i'm having is in choosing a new video card. I bought a Dell Dimension 9100 a few months ago, and found out it had a terrible video card, a Radeon x300 series. I can't play any high quality games on it, everythings choppy.

I decided to get a new GeForce video card. Please assume that i know very little about video cards. I found two cards at the store, (1) GeForce 7600 GS with 256 DDR2 and (2) GeForce 7300 GS with 512 DDR2 supporting.

Appparently 'supporting' means that it feeds off my own computers ram rather than having its own, whereas the 7600 may only be 256 MB but at least its built in.

My question is, based on my system, which should i get? The Ge Force 7300 has 512 ram but the RAM is 'supporting' and doesn't come built in, it actually gets it off my own computers ram.

I have 1 GB of RAM now and am considering getting 2 GB of RAM

THIS IS MY SYSTEM:

CPU-Z version 1.33.1.

Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Dell Inc
Motherboard model 0X8582,
BIOS vendor Dell Inc.
BIOS revision A01
BIOS release date 05/25/2005
Chipset Intel i945P/PL/G/GZ rev. 00
Southbridge Intel 82801GB (ICH7) rev. 01
Sensor chip SMSC 7901

Graphic InterfacePCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16

Memory
DRAM Type DDR2-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 266.0 MHz
FSBRAM 3:4
CAS# Latency 4.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 4 clocks
RAS# Precharge 4 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 11 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Samsung DDR2 PC4300 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 Samsung DDR2 PC4300 - 512 MBytes

CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical)
CPU#1 APIC ID = 0
Name Intel Pentium 4 640
Code Name Prescott
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 4 3
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Package LGA 775
Core Stepping N0
Technology 90 nm
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T

Software
Windows versionMicrosoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version9.0c

 

[Heyyou27]

The 7600 GS is much faster than the 7300 GS, but will still have trouble playing games on "High settings".

 

[chocobocorey]

i would not get the 7300 series if your planning on any real gaming. you could get a decent 6 series that would be better for probly cheaper.

 

[cronus88]

Thanks for the advice guys looks like i'm getting a 7600!

 

[cronus88]

I've been offered another alternative, between a GeForce 7600 GS with 256 DDR2 and a GeForce 6600 GT with 256 DDR2

Can any of you guys help, i have to make my decision today!