Funky title isn’t it? Well yes, but its true coz I had nVidia MX 400 64 MB DDR1 64Bit AGP 4X Graphic card so far and I was able to do ‘a lot’ and play NFS UG2 at 1024 x 768 x 32 at full throttle (at medium quality, though). And now my brand new nVidia GeForce 7300GT 512 MB DDR2 128 Bit AGP 8X Graphic card will obliviously to much more things easily. Sorry for those long specifications :p
I had no plans to buy this card, coz I’m not a gamer (am a casual gamer). But, I was planning to buy a Samsung 2243 NWX 22” Widescreen LCD monitor next month and I came to know that my old MX 400 gfx card cannot support the resolution of 1680 x 1050 which the monitor sports. So I googled around and found that 6600GT will support the resolution, but it was too old and opted for 7300GT, which supports as well. The good thing with this card is that it has 512 MB onboard memory and Shader Model 3.0 which does a very good job while using Aero on vista or while playing few games such has NFS MW. And yes I can play NFS MW at 1024 x 768 x 32 at all eye candies turned on. I don’t have a high-end computer coz I mentioned you earlier (am not a gamer). The current configuration I have is P4 3.06 GHz CPU with 768 MB DDR 400 MHz RAM. This is more than enough for me to run Photoshop CS3, Fireworks CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 without any glitch.
I am a web designer, so I don’t need much hardware horse power. The reason why I posted is that, if any web designer or someone who is willing to become a web designer and has low end PC, just upgrade or add a graphic card such as 7300GT without upgrading the entire rig and burning a hole in your or dad’s pocket. Being a web designer, display is the most important thing that you will have to consider a lot. Calibrate your monitor to best contrast and brightness. I will recommend a widescreen monitor, because you can see more and do more. And it will give enough room in the taskbar for all your applications so you can switch them easily. I will buy the monitor in july first week and will post the review (if not just an brief info) and do let you know my experiences.
And, I bought this card from my first own earning ever and am really feeling happy about it. Since I spent all my first month’s earnings on my family and friends, I could only buy this card which is priced at ~ $95 USD. I will spend this month’s earnings to buy the monitor 
7300GT really added some extra horse power to my computer and made my work easy 
