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the driver thing could be a good reason as to the 480's lack of performance as I think that Civ V's performance was greatly increased at a certain revision of NVidia's drivers. If that is the case then you need to be wary when using the comparative feature of those tests. It is not the time...

I suppose if the game had, for example, a benchmark directly built in like World in Conflict it would take the ambiguity out on how those benchmarks results were achieved. Civ V has three benchmarks which can be activated and then ran via shortcut but again it does not go into any detail of...

Thanks I appreciate that the calculation time taken could well be that of my CPU and RAM being used. At late game era I find that my overclocked E8500 running at 4Ghz is utilised at around 80% and the RAM used by the game rarely goes above 1.7GB of my 4GB installed. The panning around the...

Hello I am reading this comparison between the GTX480 and GTX560Ti in Civ V... http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/309?vs=330 (Blue for 480 and Black for 560) I have a GTX 460 and with that card against the 480... http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/309?vs=313 (Blue again for the...