What to Replace my 8800GTX Ultra?

[mazinger]

Hi guys, need a bit of advice here, im atm using a 8800GTX Ultra graphic card for a while now, and its starting to crash when playing games and getting artifacts when playing movies, so im hoping to change it to something else, and here a few card that i been looking at...

8800GT
9600GT
9800GX2
Ati HD3870 X2

so which of those card is close to my 8800GTX Ultra or even better? i know 1 or 2 of those 8800GT had very good review, but they seem to run pretty hot, which is a worry for me of how long will they last (I use my pc only to play games and watch movies btw), 9600GT look good, but only running on 64 Stream? which is lower than the 8800GT, does that make much different in performance? now 9800GX2 and Ati HD3870 X2 look very good, but do they have the proper drivers to run on Window Vista 64 yet? sorry for so many questions, hope someone could give me some ideas which 1 to go for before my 8800GTX die...hehhe..

thank in advance guys..

also for your expert modders, where should i put temp probe to on a graphic card to read the true temp? i atm have the probe on my 8800 GTX fan housing and it read around 31-39C which surely cant make the card over heat? any advice on this will be very grateful, thank guys.

Maz

 

[mazinger]

as usual they seem to only go wrong when its out of warranty (

 

[mazinger]

Thank for the reply guys, just check its not out of warranty yet, but i dont have the package that came with the card, will BFG except the return with no packing?

 

[mazinger]

Thank Guys for the reply, will mail BFG to get it sorted out, thank again all.