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Far Cry
The Far Cry results below show how closely both 8800GTS cards follow in performance patterns. Note however, that when AA/AF is turned on the 320MB 8800GTS drops dramatically at the 2048x1536 resolution compared to the 640MB edition.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
The GTS 320MB is clinging in there at second place in both benches. The GTX XXX keeps a very steady lead over the 320MB, ghosted by its simpler sibling. You'll also notice the XXX edition of the 8800 GTS is beating the BFG 640MB 8800GTS quite consistently so the faster core and memory speeds are proving to result in a significant impact. In Splinter Cell the 320MB GTS card appears to have no issues even at the highest resolutions.
One interesting note; when bench testing Far Cry at that ultra high resolution of 2048x1536 with filters on high, the time demo played like a slide show with all cards except for the XFX 8800 GTX XXX. Simply going to show that added memory can help to offload a GPU and boost some frame rates.
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Its an awesome review and a great comparison of all the other cards, but i just can't help but feel that if i got this card that within a few months the first truly DX10 game will be released and that 320Mb will do nothing, even now GRAW would push that and thats a year old game.
Rather than recommending wattages video card manufacturers really should be recommending how many amps in specific rails you need, but this is harder for consumers to relate to. Bottom line is that if you have such a small PSU and you already have 2-3 hard drives, a CD-ROM, extra fans, and a relatively powerful CPU you want to make sure you don't overwork the PSU.
That 7950 card though could compete quite nicely with a GTS and would probably over clock to near the same speeds. Plus, you'll save a few bucks and some space in your case.
BFG 7900 GTX OC
Asus EN7950GT
The BFG card does perform a little better with the higher factory over clock. But running two of the Asus cards together would activate their LinkBoost feature and increase the bandwidth to them by up to 20%, which would probably out preform the BFG and come really close to the 8800 GTS.