Does MSI N9600GT OC has a better temperature profile than EVGA KO,Palit Sonic ?

[codesuperking]

Friends,

After going through innumerous reviews at anandtech,tomshardware,hardocp and legitreviews ,I have created my personal list with their prices being in shouting distance of each other. These are:
1. EVGA 9600 GT 512 MB KO
2. Palit Sonic 9600 GT 512 MB
3. MSI N9600 GT OC 512 MB

1. I am willing to sacrifice extra PCI-E slot in exchange for better cooling if possible.

2.
The biggest factor in choosing one over other would be the temperatures. I went through the temps. provided by HardOCP and they are given below for each card. The results show MSI to have the best cooling solution. I expected Palit to have a good temp. reading but it surprisingly is very hot - 70C at full load for memory

All temps in centigrades
Idle Load
EVGA SSC 49C 63C
Palit Sonic
GPU 43C 60C
Back of GPU 48C 67C
Memory 47C 70C
MSI N9600GT OC
GPU 42C 59C
Back of GPU 39C 53C
Memory 42C 59C

here are the links:
EVGA
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ3NywxMSwsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=
MSI
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ4NSw3LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
Palit
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ2OSw3LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

3. How do these cards rate in performance ? In my opinion these cards have marginal difference in performance.

What do u advise ?

Hello everybdy,
Pls post temps of your 9600 GT cards and help me out.

Thanks