Earlier Stewer asked about my graphics card budget. The 460 is just barely in there... still have to save $42 or so to be able to afford the MSI GTX460 1G OC DDR5 2xDualLinkDVI, which on this site http://www.umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=5 looks to be about the best card in its class for the money. The GTX 480 is beyond my budget by a fair bit.

One limitation I'm finding myself running into is power supply: I'm pretty much at the lower-end limit with my 500watt unit and don't see myself fitting another $100 - $150 into the buget for a $700watt unit.

Thanks to all for your ideas, though... they do help.

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