I got an XFX for my friend, and it works fine. But thats just me. I'm surpised at the amount of people who (claim) have their XFX DOA. It's a huge volume of people, I figured they would at least remedy this problem. Why the hell would the majority or their cards be DOA? This is a huge financial loss for them. I'm sure that this is not the only forum that claims them as mostly DOA. You woulda thought that someone at XFX would have caught wind of this and they would have fixed it. Odd...
But yes, as has already been said, eVGA. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, here claims them as the best. I have an eVGA, and just got another one. i have not had any problems. Go with eVGA, they the best.
XFX is equally as good, except for the whole DOA thing. I guess it's the luck of the draw. If you want to tak the chance of getting one DOA and have to go through the whole process of RMA'ing it, thats your prerogative.