holy crap... i've never been to a forum that replies THIS fast... thanks guys for the help ^_^
yeh i was planning on getting the gigabyte once cause i think it looks cool, but performance wise they're like what...99% of each other?
Most of them are clocked to about the same. I personally recommend eVGA because of their unbeatable reliability. If you get one with the lifetime warranty, like the cyrax posted, you can pretty much do anything other than physically breaking the card and its still under warranty. eVGA also has great prices too.
has anyone ever tried a leadtek 6800GS they are faster stock and they overclock alot better than eVGA and it comes with HL2 even though that shouldn't have an effect on your purchase desision