Major halp plz!!11

[Carbon]

OK! So here we are again with more video card problems. Here is the story for you:

I just recently bought my computer from iBuyPower.com. I purchased my laptop there not that long ago and I was very happy with it. My friend recently purchased a computer from there as well, and he was really content with it, too. Ever since I changed my video card on my last PC and then wiped the hard drive, I have had nothing but troubles. (There is a previous post on BG about it, but it's a couple months back, I believe.)

Anyway, I purchased a computer from them and here are the specs:

Case ( Eagletech Dragon Aluminium Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply Silver )
Case Lighting ( Cold Cathode Neon Light Blue )
Power Supply ( 650 Watt -- NZXT PRC-650 Power Supply SLI Ready )
Processor ( [Socket-AM2] AMD Athlon™64 X2 6000+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology )
Processor Cooling ( [=== Silent ===] Thermaltake V1 CPU Cooling Fan System Kit Silent & Overclocking Proof = Ultimate cooling performance + Smart CPU & System Thermal Management )
Motherboard ( Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe nForce 590-SLI MCP Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Dual Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB )
Memory ( 4096MB [2048MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module Mushkin High Performance II (HP2) w/Heat Spreader )
Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce 7100GS With TurboCache Supporting 256MB w/DVI + TV Out Video )
Video Card Brand ( === High Performance === eVGA Brand Video Card Powered by NVIDIA )
Hard Drive ( 320 GB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 16M Cache] )
2nd Hard Drive ( None )
External Raid Hard Drives [USB 2.0/eSATA] ( None )
CD/DVD Drive ( None )
CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive ( [** Special !!! ***] 18X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive Silver )
Speaker System ( None )
Network Card ( Intel Pro 10/100/1000 Network Card )
Floppy Drive ( None )
Monitor ( None )
2nd Monitor ( None )
Keyboard ( Logitech Elite USB/PS2 Keyboard Black )
Mouse ( Logitech Optical Internet Mouse Black )
USB 2.0 Accessories ( Add External USB 2.0 Hub (4x USB 2.0 Ports) )
USB 2.0 Accessories ( Build-in USB 2.0 Ports )
Meter Display ( None )
Flash Media Reader/Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer Silver )
Operation System ( Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate + [Free 60-Day !!!] Microsoft Office 2007(Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access ....) )
Media Center Remote Control & TV Tuner ( None )
Case Round Cable ( Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower )
Case Round Cable ( Rounded Cables for Floppy/HDD/CD/DVD/CD-RW/DVD-RW Drives )
IEEE-1394 Fire Wire Card ( None )
USB Flash Drive ( iBuypower 1GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive )

When I originally went to their website and decided on what kind of computer I wanted, I wanted to get the 2x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 512 MB cards, but in my haste and retardation, I missed the TINY ASS little scroll bar line that you use to choose your video card, and it went with the default one (GeForce 7100GS 256MB). I called them the very next day AND wrote them an email telling them of my error and they said they'd fix it. I talked to them in person on the telephone and they told me it would increase my bill, which I knew it would.

After my long wait, I finally got my computer last night. They did exactly what I had feared; they charged me more and didn't give me the fucking video cards I wanted. Sadly I have to wait until Monday before I can reach them.

Regardless, I installed all of my games. Everything seemed to be going great. When I finally loaded up Neverwinter Nights 2 and Supreme Commander, two rather resource hogging games, they ran like TOTAL SHIT. I have ran NWN2 and Supreme Commander before on a Radeon 9800 Pro 256 with only 1 GB RAM and it ran better than this. Seriously, I want to gouge out my eyeballs. PLZ HALP ME. I have tried running in Admin mode and with SP2 Windows XP on, but nothing works. The drivers are installed properly and updated.

I don't know what to do and I really don't want to have to not play anything for yet another two weeks while I wait for new cards to come. ; ;

[Sigi]

The issue is the card uses system memory to supplement the card's memory. Basically, you're boned on memory intensive programs (it will function like a 128MB card EXACTLY because it has only 128 MB of ram on the card)

>.> Need I mention I despise cards and chipset that share system memory?

[Shuemue]

7100's are garbage, GS aren't great, you need something more like a 7600 GT.

Basically you're waiting.