Building new computer, suggestions appreciated

[jackslammer]

You should almost never start a enthusiast style build with sli. Especially a 460 sli grab a 560-570 and expand to another when they become cheaper. They will never become necessary as no games push the graphics that intensely.

460s and 560s are functionally identical, the GTX 560 is just newer and faster. They have the same number of stream processors, ROPs and SMs, and the same size L2 cache and memory bus. In fact, the only real advantage the 560 has over its predecessor is clock speeds: the core, at 810MHz, is 20% faster than the 460; the memory, at 1GHz, is 10% faster. This ramp up in clock speeds offer a minor performance increase as expected, similar to a simple overclock without even increasing the voltage. You are better off grabbing a factory overclocked 460 or just overclocking a 460 yourself. I don't know why somebody would recommend a 560 instead of a 460. :doh:

Several year old console hardware can play any game out too, but in 720p with blurry low ass settings, no AA, no AF and barely 30 FPS. An average of 60 FPS in a high resolution like 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 2560x1600, etc. with maxed settings, AA, and AF is considered acceptable for a PC game and plenty of games today won't perform acceptably on a single mid to high end GPU. Just browse around and let the benchmarks speak for themselves.