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Price: $109USD MSRP (unable to find for sale just yet)

How do you make a mid-range video card such as the 7300GT DDRII better? Easy, you add active cooling and faster DDRIII memory. These two additions increase the core clock speed slightly and the memory frequency quite significantly. The 7300GT line of GPUs has proven to be a formidable opponent in the $100 or less range and with the introduction of DDRIII models, the 7300GT looks to extend that run of great bang-for-the-buck value.



Today, I have the utmost pleasure of putting a Biostar Sigma Gate 7300GT with 256MB of DDRIII on-board memory through its paces. Biostar has been producing motherboards for quite some time but have only been in the video card market since the beginning of '05. In the fall of 2005, Biostar solidified its position as a top NVIDIA partner by introducing the Sigma Gate name to head up their video card line.



I recently finished up a review of an so it will be a nice comparison to see just how much of a difference the faster DDRIII memory makes in performance. Of course, I won't just be comparing the two results and will sprinkle in benchmark results from an X800GTO and X1300Pro as well. Let's start off with having a look at the package that Biostar has chosen for distributing the Sigma Gate 7300GT DDRIII (V7303GT21).