Just a word of caution about using 2006 3d mark as a basis for purchasing a video card. Both ATI (AMD) and Nvidia have been found to “boost” artificial benchmarks with drivers when sent out to hardware test sites. You are better off looking at actual game results than that style of benchmark since they are so easily manipulated with drivers. When it comes to Falcon BMS, both AMD and Nvidia cards do well. It just comes down to what you want. If you want lower power usage and cards that quieter, Nvidia is ahead in that area at the moment. If you don’t mind noise and efficiency isn’t an issue, AMD is performing just as well. Money wise, a GTX 970 will run a single 1920x1080 monitor with maxed eye candy just fine. Even the 960 will run it just fine. I would recommend the 970 for current and future gaming vs the 960, but that is just a personal opinion.
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