Well since it sparked some nostalgic interest here's my sys specs:
1045 Thuban core PII X6 @ 3.45 GHz (I was wrong apparently) still a bump from the stock 2.7 is decent. It can and will run higher, up to around 3.8 semi-stable but I'll get BOINC computational errors in Rosetta, so, back down it goes. At 3.45GHz I can actually undervolt it from stock volts! It does not like being on high volts, it just doesn't really care.
8GB of that kickass Samsung 1600 DDR3 RAM that was being sold for while, @ 1700MHz 9-9-9-24. SINGLE CHANNEL, BTW, as my board decided one day two of the DIMM slots don't work anymore.
I do use a 256GB SSD for my games and swap disk, I keep a few loaded on it at any given time, among my 7TB worth of random SATA/USB3 drives.
Yes 60FPS isn't minimum but average, however it stays average probably about 99.x% of the time -- so.
I decided to bench Shadow of Mordor which is a very VRAM demanding game, I believe.
Note, I think synthetic benches while entertaining are shit. I'm a real person, so I did a Real World(tm) bench. I had Firefox loaded, a GRIDCOIN wallet going, 20% of my 8GB of my (single channel) RAM was preoccupied with random things. Oh, and my 960 is the EVGA FTW 4GB card which is the top 960 they sell. I chose it for efficiency on power -- I wanted a 970, but I can't pick a crippled, half-cobbled card I'd have to go for the 980.
I did two or three runs in three different GFX configurations:
Ultra, Bench 1
Av. 54
Max 87
Min 22
Ultra, Bench 2
Av. 54
Max 157
Min 39
Ultra (Shadow on High) Bench 1
Av. 64
Max 263
Min 32
Ultra (Shadow on High) Bench 2
Av. 64
Max 255
Min 46
Note, there were no spikes unless the frames shot through the roof. The min is within milliseconds of beginning the benchmark itself.
The differences between run 1's and 2's? Overall positive, but a third time exhibits cessation of any further noticeable benefit. It seems between run 1 and 2, on run 2, assets are pre-loaded in VRAM or some such thing ... ? Not sure, no clue.
I did a high GFX run across the board, still, better GFX likely than say, PS4.
High 1
Av. 67
Max 156
Min 49
High 2
Av. 68
Max 257
Min 51
High 3
Av. 67
Max 249
Min 51
I attribute the third run having lower numbers due to Real World(tm) processes taking their toll in the background.
Hope this is intriguing.