One of my big beefs with the high-end is the dual slot cooling solutions required for the new cards. The advantage of the large cooling systems is that the card will run cooler with a hotter chip. The disadvantages of two slot cooling include requiring two slots on a motherboard (significant if two cards will run in SLI mode as the other expansion on the motherboard is curtailed) and bulkiness.

The 7300GT is a small card. The length of the card is barely an inch longer than the PCI Express slot it is designed to fit into. One thing about this card is that it shares the same PCB layout as the e-GeForce 7600GS. This saves on design costs. The 7300GT has a small 16-fin fan on the graphics chip to keep it cool. There’s also a small heatsink that surrounds the fan for additional heat dissipation. One good thing about cards like the 7300GT is that they do not require a lot of power.

EVGA decided to outfit the card with a VGA output a TV-Out port and a DVI-I output port. This combination is typical of video cards in the mainstream and low-end segment, as people wanting to spend $100 on a video card are likely to have CRT monitors. You can run dual CRT monitors or a CRT+LCD combination with the included adapter.