This is my Video Card: ATI Radeon x1300 I bought it a year ago. Its 512 MB, which makes it better than the 256 ones I still see selling for more than 100 dollars, or am I wrong here. So, is this graphics card a good gaming and high-end video editing graphics card for most programs out there or must I upgrade? My video card also makes my computer LOUD! Like can hear it 12 feet away from it and I need this computer to be quiet since I do a lot of audio recording. Will replacing the GPU Fan help? Kute Punk Kay Pee Kay Tee Pren Tiss Kute Punk Kay Pee Kay Tee Pren Tiss

512MB doesn't mean much on a low-end card & that's exactly what the X1300 is. Also you can't use retail pricing alone as a metric for judging the gaming performance of a card, especially with low-end cards again. Either way, the X1300 *512MB* ranges anywhere from $20.00 to $130.00 on Newegg & I don't think I'd pay anyone more than $20.00 for it -- 512MB or not.

It's definitely not a good card for gaming if that's what you're asking. And as Sabertooth said, 512MB is meaningless on a low end card, but it does sucker people in. Have a look at this chart & notice where the X1300 ranks: http://www23.tomshardware.com/graph...

"Have a look at this chart & notice where the X1300 ranks:" The two x1300 versions with 256MB of memory outperformed the version with 512MB - which was dead last at 12FPS. Wouold probably be a fine card for showing a slide show! Michael J

The graphics core of AMD's new 780G chipset handily beats the x1300. It's definitely not a good thing when your discrete graphics card gets pummelled by an IGP. The creme de la creme of Socket 939: Opty 185 @ 3.2GHz SLI'ed GTS-640s, both flashed to 625/1458/1950 4GB PC3200 Blu-Ray/HD-DVD, X-Fi A8N32-SLI Deluxe 3DMark06: 13896

I think it is helpful to replace the GPU fan.

The X1300 came into the market as a budget card, so right off the bat it wasn't any good for true gaming. Everytime you try to play a good 3D modern game you are putting a huge bottleneck on your Quad Core processor, because of that X1300. You need to at least aim for a ATI Radeon 2600XT, Nvidia 8600GT or ATI Radeon 3650 to play modern 3D games decently.