MSI RX300HM-TD128E X300SE Question

[teddyv]

MSI Radeon X300SE HyperMemory
* Model #: RX300HM-TD128E
* Item #: N82E16814127188

The Woman I just spoke with at NewEgg swears this $50 card has 256-bit DDR memory (then told me if I returned the card there would be a 15% restock fee.) This doesn't sound right to me - anyone know if this is true?

Also, any suggestions for a better/cheap card to hold me over until I can get the 7800 of my dreams?

Thanks!
(And yes, I am fairly new to this.)

 

[Avalon]

Here is the link to your card's model. The trend with ATI cards has been that 'SE' means half the memory bandwidth of a non SE model of the same type. So, with X300 vanilla cards capable of supporting 128bit memory, the SE should be a 64bit memory card.

Maybe what the Newegg CSR meant was that the card supports 256MB of hypermemory, not that the memory had a 256bit channel. The card only locally has 128MB of memory on it, though. The rest it gets from using your system RAM/PCI-E bandwidth.

 

[teddyv]

Maybe what the Newegg CSR meant was that the card supports 256MB of hypermemory, not that the memory had a 256bit channel

I had looked on the MSI site, but it makes no mention of it (only "128MB DDR SDRAM") so I called the Egg to ask. I made her repeat it back to me because 256-bit made no sense on a card this cheap.

Thanks for answering, I did suspect it was 64-bit (or even 32-bit.)