I found MSI Twin Frozr design cards work best for me, nvidia or amd.
I too have always had good experiences with MSI cards (just haven't mined with any yet). I have two MSI Nvidia GTX460s with the Twin Frozr coolers from my old gaming rigs. They were absolutely excellent cards. They ran super cool and it was possible to tweak voltages too. It's too bad it's not really worthwhile to mine with them.
