Best brand of nVidia GTX 285 card?

Now that I've changed my mind, and decided to get ready to someday buy an HD camcorder, I'm looking at the various brands of nVidia GTX 285 cards to use with CS5... with prices ranging from $370 to $450
The top brands seem to be EVGA $390-$430 and BFG $370-$400 and XFX $390-$450 and GIGABYTE $370 @Newegg
Is one of these brands better than the others?
Note that I do NOT believe in over-clocking, so I am ONLY going to consider a brand + model that uses the standard clock speed as specified on the nVidia web site

brand is unimportant to a point
look at GHz and memory speeds some sell factory OCed
also warranty. some have lifetime, if i recall BFG, XFX and EVGA?
i prefer Zotac as they tend to be faster for less.
Scott
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