Product Description

Founded in 1999, EVGA has grown exponentially in the channel, serving the system builder, distribution and retail markets with products that offer the highest in quality and customer satisfaction, thereby making the computing experience transparent to the hardware in the box.PRODUCT FEATURES:UltraShadow II Technology;Intellisample 3.0 Technology;Integrated HDTV Encoder;TurboCache;Adaptable Programmable Video Processor;64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending;Unified Driver Architecture (UDA);nView Multi-Display Technology;Digital Vibrance Control 3.0 Technology;PCI Express Certified;NVIDIA PureVideo Technology;128-Bit Studio-Precision Computation;Full-Speed 32-Bit Color Precision;Integrated TV Encoder;Dual 400MHz RAMDACs;Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Optimizations and Support.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5205 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: EVGA
• Model: 256-P2-N436-LX
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 7.60" w x 11.00" l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• Video card with 256 MB of 64-bit DDR2 memory
• Full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
• UltraShadow II Technology enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games
• Intellisample 3.0 technology delivers ultra-realistic visual at lightning-fast speeds
• Integrated HDTV Encoder for HDTV-out functionality up to 1920x1080i resolutions

Amazon.com Product Description
The eVGA 256-P2-N436-LX NVIDIA e-GeForce 7300GS 256 MB Graphics Card with S-Video features 256 MB of 64-bit DDR2 memory with a 4.264 GB-per-second memory bandwidth. Boasting the 3-D graphics features of today's most advanced GPUs--including full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and true high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting--the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS 550 MHz graphics processing unit (GPU) allows you to experience the latest gaming effects without compromising performance.

UltraShadow II technology enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects. This second-generation technology delivers more than four times the shadow processing power over the previous generation. The card's Intellisample 3.0 technology offers the fastest antialiasing you'll find anywhere and delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. 64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending, based on the OpenEXR technology from Industrial Light & Magic, sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. And its integrated HDTV Encoder provides world-class HDTV-out functionality up to and including 1920x1080i resolutions.

From the Manufacturer
Boasting the 3-D graphics features of today's most advanced GPUs--including full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and true high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting--the Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS graphics processing unit (GPU) allows you to experience the latest gaming effects without compromising performance. The GeForce 7300 GS also brings stunning, high-definition video and superb picture clarity with minimal CPU usage with Nvidia PureVideo technology. For the performance and features you need to play the latest games and enjoy home-theater quality video, make sure your PC is equipped with a e-GeForce 7300 GS.

Customer Reviews

Solves Dual Monitor Issue with Linux
Copied from my review at Dell:

Pros: Nvidia has written drivers to allow monitor spanning in Linux. I'm using Ubuntu with Gnome. It took about fifteen minutes of playing around with the nvidia-settings app and my desktop was exactly what I wanted.

Cons: Clearly I upgraded to this card near the end of its life cycle. At the time I bought the computer, It was around a $100 upgrade if I remember correctly. Not worth the $100 then but definitely worth the $50 now. I don't see an appreciable difference in system performance but that's probably because I now have the capacity to work the entire system harder.

Additional Thoughts: To make dual monitor work, you need to search for the best way to install nvidia-settings for your system. Either use apt-get or your package manager. Launch the nvidia-settings from terminal and start playing around. I experimented a few times between running 2 desktops vs twin view but finally settled on the latter. I restarted X a couple of times while experimenting and had one good reboot at the end and I was done.
I have one wide screen at 1400x900 and one 19" at 1280x1024. The wide screen is plugged into the DVI. The settings app has a Left-of and a Right-of setting for positioning the monitors and provides a button to save the configuration to your xorg.conf. The option exists to merge with previous settings which can be handy if you know what you're doing.

Great One (works for Me)
I wanted this to watch movies on netflix and it worked for me. So I am happy.

Not so good
The hardware is like all the cheap products from China. The Vista performance test gave my PC an average rating of 3.0 and the lowest score was awarded to the Graphics sub system, so it's not very good.