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Do not buy the Ultra, it is not worth it. It only has slightly faster core and memory speeds. However, do not go as low as a GTS 320MB. I’ll say this again (I’ve said it before), the 8800GTS 320MB is a very bad choice to pick if you want any kind of real life out of your video card. I’d be very interested to know if you’re using any anti-aliasing Erad, and how well the card scales with more demanding video games like Ghost Recon 2, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Bioshock, Company of Heroes, Call of Juarez, for example. I believe strongly that you’re very much going to be disappointed when it comes to say Crysis or even UT3 with a 320MB GTS. It will run out of memory footprint with these games, especially if you enable features such as anti-aliasing.
So, either the 8800GTX or 8800GTS 640MB. The GTX is faster, and at the tip top end it will perform better, especially if you go into enabling high end options like AA and AF with transparency and alphas on. However, the 8800GTX really is not going to have a longer life than a 8800GTS 640MB.
The sentiments about benchmarks... well all I have to say is that if you looked at the right ones you'd know how bad the GeForce FX series was. You might not have ever noticed it because UT 2K4 is a DirectX 7 game (only a few Dx8 extensions) for the most part. The FX issues with Dx9 are very well documented.
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