Getting a New Video Card for My Birthday...Here We Go Again...

UPDATE: Went with the 7870 OC from Gigabyte : Thanks for all the help though guys!

Well, I thought I definitely made my decision for what GPU I want for my birthday, which was going to be the ASUS DirecCUII HD7850...
But... unfortunately (because it stresses me out lol), I have found more GPU competitors. Here we go again...

So the GPUs I have in mind right now are these: ASUS HD7850 (Mentioned above), Sapphire HD7850 (Heard it's "better" than ASUS), EVGA GTX 480 (Yes, the power hungry, desert temps. GPU), and, yes, even this one, a GTX 295 (Probably from EVGA as well, keep in mind, this card will probably get eliminated easily. However, it is only on here because of it's potential to still run the latest games like BF3)

Here's what I want from my brand new GPU: To max out, or AT LEAST almost max out (because I understand these cards won't do full AA and/or AF settings, 'least research tells me), Battlefield 3 (getting this for my birthday as well) and all other games like Skyrim, Crysis (all of them), GTA IV... and pretty much the brand new game titles coming up soon (basically I want my GPU to be "future ready")

I also want to OC my GPU. I understand both the ASUS and Sapphire 7850's will get the job done WITHOUT having to buy a third party heatsink like the 480 and 295 (which would cost around $30 - 60 bucks), in which I don't want to have to buy more stuff just so I can OC the nVidia cards.

Now, for something very unusual and random... the temps... of my room! Lol Seriously, my room is a freakin' desert when my computer is turned on. I think if I get the GTX 480, with all that heat and power hungriness it has, it would make my room from desert temps, to hell temps, lol. So, in all seriousness, I don't want to have a hotter room than I already have (thank God for AC's )

So that's all the cards I have in mind right now, and HOPEFULLY I don't have to stress out about any other cards being this-or-that . By the way, my birthday is in 10 days so yeah... short time span, really.

Overview of what I want from my new GPU:
- Max out BF3 (or almost max out) and be future ready for other games coming out.

- Nice OCs

- Runs cool and not make my room temps like hell.

Also, one more thing, my budget is around $200 - 280 bucks. So no recommending other cards that are over $290 bucks.

Please help and thank you!

P.S. THE DRIVERS!!! I have heard that the 7850's drivers are doing pretty bad and are being unstable, while the nVidia drivers are rock solid and have no problems what-so-ever (I've never had any problems with nVidia drivers, so I don't wanna start having driver problems with ATI/AMD drivers.)
Edited by computerfreak09 - 7/17/12 at 12:06am

Replying to Faisal:

Thanks

And is that right? Well I wasn't really too concerned about the driver issues, but I was just worried. And I thought I heard/saw somewhere that the ATI drivers had trouble with BF3, so that was my biggest concern.

Thats especially true for the 275: doesn't have DX11, and me playing BF3 with DX10 would not make sense at all, lol. Especially how I said I want my GPU to be future ready for future games so yeah... Pretty much the 275 is out and done already in my list xD no point going to it.

As for the 480, I heard about it not maxing out, I heard it does and so on. But personally, I actually don't think it does. As for the temps, that's definitely true. BF3 is a graphic hungry game, and the 480 combined with BF3 would definitely mean hot temps, which means my
room turning into hell temps

Thanks for your reply! Anyone else can still help

EDIT: I will check replies tomorrow. Using an iPhone trying to type and read posts isn't easy at all. And it's 2:30 A.M.
Edited by computerfreak09 - 7/10/12 at 2:33am