Does it have to be Nvidia? As a single card I find Radeon solutions within your budget generally have better performances. Their firmware support is no as good though and crossfire support sucks so if you want upgrade to 2 GPU later on than stick with NVIDIA.

One of the best thing about the 460 is its SLI performance so if you are thinking about eventually adding a second GPU on your board, make sure it has enough space to accomodation the neccessary PCI slots you'll need!

If you have no intention of ever getting the second card, there are cheaper Radeon solutions seems more beneficial, you'll also probably save money by optioning an AMD CPU/Board combo, they're usually cheaper and at your budget, not much difference in performance.

Good luck on your purchase.

Bad. That's a GTX 460 SE, which is por value compared to the actual GTX 460s. You should get a GTX 460 in the upper 7xxMHz or 8xxMHz clockspeeds.

No, all GTX460s are not the same. There's SE (worst), 768MB and 1GB and within those three there's clockspeeds from 600MHz to 810MHz .

Look at the similarly priced Radeons too. Also I recommend spending less on the CPU and more on the GPU if possible, will get higher framerates overall.

I think Crossfire scaling is now better than SLI since the 68xx series launch.

i recommmend the xfx 6870. Its ony $210 and you get a $30 rebate.

I will check out the GTX 460, but I am going to be adding another card in the future

I'm refering to the 460 specifically, its one of the best Nvidia card to SLI as its not a power hog and has great overall performance

Crossfire firmware and compatibility is horrible the last I check, I will admit though, I haven't kept up with the news as I should but in general they tend to have more issue running games than a SLI machine.