Whats a working Geforce 6800 card for K8N Neo2?

I bought an XFX 6800 card and experienced freezes when running high end games, even a game from a couple years ago.  The vendor said that they are getting 1/3 of the xfx cards returned as defective and are phasing them out.  I still want to get a Geforce 6800 card, but can't find any reviews of specific brands.  Any suggestions? (by the way, i have a 400W PSU so thats not it  )

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experienced freezes when running high end games
I have a BFG 6800 GT OC and I get freezes unless I clock back the card to 350 MHz (OCs come 370) and cannot use any driver higher than 67.03.  The NF3 chipset and 6800 just don't get along for some people, maybe new NF3 drivers will fix it..if they every come out.
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Some power supplies are over rated and although claim to be 400W or 500W that are actually much lower
Huh?  400W is 400W.  As you said in your previous post, the thing to watch is how many amps are given to the 12V line.

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