PNY GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB PCI-E Video Card $160 at Newegg

Want to have some Skyrim decals, $40 Rebate, and bad Eggviews fine... rather want to play Skyrim?
Grab this nice OC'd 7850 1Gb for $165 –AR$15 shipping is $7. Run the new 12.11 Beta drivers and Skyrim runs really pretty smooth at 1920x / 1080p. Then with a nice dual fan cooler it could find 1Ghz no problem, and still use 20% less power than a 560Ti.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202004

TechReport - "Although the legacy GeForce cards churn out FPS averages near the 60 FPS mark, they're not actually great performers here, as their 99th percentile frame times and latency curves suggest. Some frames just take a while, especially on the GTX 560 Ti, which we suspect is bumping up against a memory size limitation. You can feel the slowdowns when playing."
http://techreport.com/review/23419/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-ti-graphics-card-reviewed/7

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You know you can't pass up that full version of Duke Nukem.

radeon driver's drive me nuts. i got crashes all the time with my 6870. paid 150 for a paper weight.

Good price, but the included copy of duke nukem makes it not worth it.

This one any good? They were selling it for $190 with a rebate.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150609

#5 - For $190 I might still call it pricy. A 2Gb 7850 isn't all that better than a 1Gb if your holding at 1920x/1080p. The only title might be Skyrim as AnandTech covered, "Regardless of whether we"re looking at AMD or NVIDIA cards, there's only one benchmark where 2GB cards have a clear lead: Skyrim at 1920x with the high resolution texture pack. For our other 9 games the performance difference is miniscule at best."
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6359/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-650-ti-review/6
Here W1zzard didn't show any difference and even for Skyrim at 1920x.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Club_3D/HD_7850_RoyalQueen/22.html

Now, if you play Skyrim and are willing to drop something at or just above $190 for your card, I'd be more looking at 7870's. This HIS H787F2G2M 7870 GHz Edition 2GB for $210 –AR$20 shipping $7.56. Now this card doesn't have some super utmost H-P cooler, but is a H-P and gets job done while stated to be quiet, althought not a card for radical OC's like that XFX. A 7870 is another 10% over the 7850 so the 10% price increase is right in line. Though you can save $20 and OC the XFX to make that up. Interestingly W1zzard indicated the 12.11 Beta drivers promote the 7870 20% more in Fps for Skyrim vs. the 7850 2Gb, while even a GTX660Ti comes up 8% less than a 7870.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/19.html
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4835/his_radeon_hd_7870_ghz_edition_2gb_video_card_overclocked_review/index1.html

I'd find the $32 extra and at least get this MSI GTX660 OC Twin Frozer Cooler that works down to $192.
http://bensbargains.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=302914&highlight=

Here's a MSI Hawk that's OC out of the box like 11%; against a Sapphire 7870 OC just 5%, though they are using 12.11 drivers. Consider the above MSI Twin Frozer OC’s is 5-6% out of the box, and while they were able to find a little extra <4% to 1124MHz it hardly does much of anything to bumping the FPS. Sure wish they found the top clock (conservatively 1200Mhz) on that 7870 and showed those results instead of the 7970.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5055/msi_geforce_gtx_660_hawk_2gb_video_card_review/index.html