Replacement for an ATI Radeon X1900 XT

I have a MacPro1,1 Dual Core Intel Xenon 3GHz with a bus speed of 1.33GHz.
I have the hard drive bays full and am generating a good deal of heat. I am using smc fan control, with only limited success at helping my problem. That problem is that I believe the video card is over heating, and causing video anomalies and lockups.
I use the box for graphic intensive applications as a photographer in my studio. I need this thing to work all the time.
Can someone recommend a top quality replacement video card that will run cooler, but still have the horsepower. I drive dual 21 inch digital monitors.
I appreciate any input you might have.
Pete

Have you not seen and read how important it is to pull the X1900 every couple months to clean out dust that clogs it up?
Your hard drives should not run overly warm though some do hit 40's. Most drives in the last year or so run quite well, and cool enough.
If you want to dump the X1900, the 4870 is a good investment, and there are multiple threads this week of X1900 owners.
It doesn't take a lot to drive two 21-23" monitors. High performance usually means it needs good fans and cooling, but also produces heat. There are copper coolers for any video card.
And if you have lockups, you have drive directory corruption and problems with the file system as a result unless you really keep on top of repairs immediately on the next boot and have Disk Warrior on another hard drive, and, a good backup. One reason to keep the OS / Apps separate from all other data.
The 3GHz may also be running on the warm side. And FBDIMMs got better, but those are one of the main sources of heat. Some 4GB makes though are made to be cooler than even 1 and 2GB modules. Those should definitely be kept to under 75C and if possible 65C.

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