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Review: Gigabyte WaterForce

by Parm Mann on 8 December 2014, 12:00

Tags: Gigabyte (TPE:2376), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Total War: Rome II

Providing an excellent mix of strategy and action, Total War: Rome II's epic turn-based gameplay can swallow hours of your life. Our 60-second benchmark uses the built-in Extreme preset at 1080p and the Ultra preset at 4K.

A single high-end GPU can struggle to play Total War: Rome II at a 4K resolution with Ultra quality settings. We see near-perfect scaling when a second GTX 980 is introduced, though the performance gain from a third card is a less impressive 30 per cent. Still, how can you complain about 112 frames per second on average?

And that extra headroom can make a difference. The fully-equipped WaterForce delivers nearly every frame within 17ms (representing 60 frames per second) and the slowest frames are, well, not that slow.

Get hold of a 4K G-Sync monitor, and this is the sort of hardware you need in order to deliver fast and smooth gameplay.