Advice on the best Video Card for my budget

I am currently looking at possibly upgrading my video card. I am, for the most part, happy with my current setup but am starting to see newer games causing some performance issues at high settings. I like to see all the eye candy, but don't want to pay through the nose to get it. My budget is about $300 but its flexible if there is a good argument to go slightly over this. I am looking at the 3870, 8800gt, and 8800gts(g92) cards. These are my thought's on each, please give me your input. Keep in mind I do Overclock so keep this in mind.

3870 (Sapphire $250): Cheap but would a 8800gt be better? how well do they overclock?

8800GT(XFX $250): same cost as 3870, don't like the single slot cooler so i would probably get aftermarket and OC.

8800GTS(XFX $300): $50 for dual slot cooler and higher stock clock. I feel better OCing this on stock cooling.

Also, Would my 600 Watt PSU be sufficient to power any of these cards? Remember I have the x1900xtx right now and I figure if it powers this overheating bastard it will be fine on any of the appove.

Input?

I dunno ,,kinda leaning towards buying a none over clocked and then doing my own i have the asus 8800gt with the vantec power cooler 6 pro dual slot,gotta push that heat right outta the case asap,and a 420 wtt psu,so you should be ok ,,600wtt yeah!!... )

Where's the link for this one? I only saw the XFX for $250 + shipping. The EVGA was outta stock and was $240. Unless you are looking at the 256MB ones which I am not interested in.

I am only iffy on the GT's because i plan to overclock eventually after I feel it is stable and fine stock. The single slot worries me a bit. $230 is a good price shipped though if you can link me up.

I'm really leaning toward this. Getting the non factory OCed card for $300 w/ $20 mail-in-rebate. I don't see many coolers out there for the 8800gt's anyways so id be stuck with the stock one for now. Besides a good cooler is $50 anyways so I may as well get the GTS. I haven't looked at Video Cards in a while but in sort of ruling out the 3870 because it appears the 8800's just kick their but anyways and have more OC headroom. The only thing I see OC restrictive is the memory since it's DDR3, but my experience with OC is that you don't gain much with this anyways.

Sound good?

Well, honestly it WAS $230 yesterday, now its $240 but still comes with the Eggs fast free shipping.

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But I must warn anyways, OC is just not an option with the stock HSF unless you don't mind the cool sound of a turbine jet engine. If ya got the cash maybe the 8800GTS 512 with the rebate isn't a bad deal either. I personally put a Accelero S2 on my 8800GT. I volt modded it and got it to 770/1925/1040 at 1.25V idle

The memory has a good 50-100 MHz left in it. It doesn't do much to help though.

Get an eVGA or XFX with Lifetime Warranties and eVGA has a stepup program if the 9800 GTX comes out. They also both support overclocking.

Mine does 820 MHz core. I can't complain. (Stock Cooler, no volt mod).

I've been partial to XFX, mainly because I've had cards from them in the past. As for my x1900xtx I am selling it for $125 plus whatever shipping is if it needs shipped. I was going to mess around and put it on eBay but the selling prices on there are all over the place from $66- $150 for some odd reason, nothing stable. I just want a modest amount for it. I have a buddy who runs LAN parties in his basement and know alot of people. So whoever wants it is welcome to it.

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Riva doesn't have a "stress" feature like ATi. That is why I use both (Riva to set clocks, ATi to Artifact scan). It runs at startup and is driver level, so you can choose to apply the OC on startup or just when you decide to play a game.

Operating temperature is 75-85C. Mine doesn't get over 60C with 60% Fan Speed.