I've been waiting all year to get a good video card. Now that 8800GT is available, I'm ready to buy. But which brand? Newegg shows five of them available: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....cription=8800GT+ Is one brand more reliable? + Quieter? (This is important to me.)+ Would the 50 MHz overclock on the EVGA board make an appreciable difference? (Reference standard seems to be 600 MHz, so it's an increase of 8%.)Thanks for any advice you have.

EVGA all the way for me.Lifetime warranty, full value trade up program.Get the superclocked version. That's what I ordered today for $259 CDNGlenn

yeah but is your motherboard PCIe 2.0 compliant?I'm trying to figure that out for myself, looks like a great card, but if we need a new mobo I can't do it....

Doesn't have to be PCIe 2.0 compliant. It's backwards compatible with 1.0Only the new X38 chipset boards are 2.0 compliant.Check this out:http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3140"NVIDIA's 8800 GT is the "world's first consumer GPU to support PCI Express 2.0." Currently, the only motherboard chipset out that that could take advantage of this is Intel's X38. We have yet to play with benchmarks on PCIe 2.0, but we don't expect any significant impact on current games and consumer applications. Currently we aren't bandwidth limited by PCIe 1.1 with its 4GB/sec in each direction, so it's unlikely that the speed boost would really help. This sentiment is confirmed by game developers and NVIDIA, but if any of our internal tests show anything different we'll certainly put a follow-up together."Glenn

oh, excellent....looks like a great card then....gotta shift my SATA drive up one slot hehe