Jura, I appreciate all the information on the various graphics boards you have listed I am in the process of surfing the net to locate these cards so I can evaluate them. It seems like most of benchmarks are based on Game program performance and just give a generalized number like 120%,68%,...etc or specific benchmarks. I realize that the bigger percentage is probably means the better performance for specific games. But do these number translate to better performance for programs like Poser, Daz Studio, Zbrush..etc. Besides Onboard Memory,should I be looking at specific parameters like GPU Texture fill rate, Pixel fill rate, Memory bandwidth, FLOPS ...or what ever etc My system is Intel i7 2600k CPU 3.4GHZ Windows 7 Home Premium, 16G ram

Your inputs are and have been much appreciated..