Zebronics 7300GT

Review of 7300GT

I got my hands on this card, so thought of review it. and after looking at the results i was quite surprised. Never knew that 7300GT was this good . 7300GT is a mid range card from zebronics.



Packaging

Card comes in a rectangular box,with a sliding cover mostly used in high end mobos. with some features written on it. other than the card there is a driver CD, TV out wire and 2 instructions booklets. There are no games bundle but u are saving the money .


Introduction

Feature are same as all other 7300GT card out there. like its a 8 pixel pipe and 4 vertex pipe card. core clock it 400Mhz and memory is 500Mhz. Its having 256MB of DDR2 memory, memory brand is hynix. Memory interface is 128bit. feature wise this card is very identical to 6600. its also SLi capable card so u can connect 2 of them. All other things like support for DX9, SM3.0, purevideo, openGL 2.0 is there.
It supports 2 moniter as most of the card out there. one connector is DVI while other is HD-15. anyways lets end the boring stuff .
Card is having black PCB which looks good.
Here are some pics.

Front

Back



Overclocking

The stock speed of card is 400/500. i was able to overclock the card to 550/600 levels. card is having active cooling. The cooling solution also looks very similar to 6600 series. card was very silent. the max temparature i had seen was around 64*c while running NFS Carbon in OCed mode. i think 150Mhz core and 100Mhz memory overclock is good enuf.


Test Rig
Processor: AMD 3000+ Venice @ 2.5Ghz
Motherboard: Nvidia Nfocrce4 SLI
Ram: 1GB 2x512MB
and some regular stuff

Performance

i tried 3dmarks 03, 05, NFS cardbon, Farcry as these were the thing installed in my system. for some weird reasons i was not able to switch on AA in farcry :-/ ...... maybe some driver issue. but i was lot surprised to see the performace of the card in games, maybe coz i have never used a mid range card since ages but still. anyways i am not going in much details and posting the numbers.

3d marks 03 and 05



Farcry



Need for speed Carbon



as u can see its playable on every setting i have benched. there was some problem with carbon @ 1024x768 but after OCing the card it was working just fine. but in carbon every nvidia card is having trouble maybe a new driver will sort out the issue.


verdict
I think the card is great value for money. Its available for 4850/- with taxes. it is also great card if u are making a HTPC. being a silent card. i think it will play all the old games with 1280x1024 and high/medium settings. and newer games with 1024x768 and low/medium setting.