If you want to put custom cooling on your card, and/or overclock it, EVGA is your best bet. They support aftermarket cooling and overclocking without voiding your warranty.
Last I heard, you were running VERY hot at 3GHz, are you using stock cooling? You should get one of these coolers to keep it at a low temprature while overclocked.
That card will work fine, it is basically the same thing but from a different company. EVGA's Step-up program is absolutely rubbish for Euro customers, so I wouldn't bother even trying to step up to a future card if you get that one.
Just because you don't like a certain series doesn't mean you can troll everyone who does. Stop posting in this thread or ANY other thread related to ovals.
I'm using the 169.28 drivers, I got the force AA to work on them. The 171.16 driver was way too unstable for me, I would get random BSOD's, especially in LFS.
Newegg usually has a tendency to sell things cheaper than retail. I'm getting a Logitech G15 and G5 soon and the keyboard is $20 cheaper than it is on logitech.com.
When I installed XP on this computer (it was a SP1 disc), it ran so painfully slow that I couldn't update it to SP2 or SP3. Installed Vista, and the only problems I have had were crashes while experimenting with overclocks on both my graphics card and CPU.
You have made several VERY good points proving this fool wrong, but there is no point in even trying anymore. Atlantian, if all you want to do is troll this forum relentlessly, you need to be banned.