Don't be too quick to write it off as Garbage and throw it on the Scrap Heap.

I just took the leap into PCI-E, with a CHEAPO Dell, but with a Q6600, I'll live

That 8300, on all the copy you can get your hands on, says 128MB

BUT on dxdiag it shows 512MB, plus a few other places on my machine

Can't Prove anything but I have my suspicions, the Hot Cards like the 8800's, run DDR3

Geforce 8400 GS is 512MB DDR2

Something tells me, that 8300 is plain old 512MB

No it is DDR2.. but it depends on if it is the GS is the ultra xt and many other names lol..

And it only comes in flavors of 128 and 256 megs o ram.. But it is DDR2

Makes sense, but why would dxdiag say 512MB ?

To be honest, I have not a clue lol.. You might have gotten lucky and got a 512 meg version?

Easiest way to tell is run everest in my sig

Ran a program. I had . . System Spec . . Basically the same thing

Turns out it is 512, But while I paid for 3GB RAM, I only got 2

Win some, Lose some

BINGO . . . YAHTZEE the Driver Disc from Nvidia is for the 8300GS and 8600GT

According to Tiger Direct, 8600GT is 512 DDR2