Total War: Shogun 2
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Where2buy: amazon.co.uk |
Praised both by critics and gamers, the latest instalment of the Total War series takes strategy enthusiasts back to 16th-century Japan and presents a lavish blend of 3D real-time battles and turn-based management.
Pitting mainstream cards against high-quality settings and silly resolutions (2,560x1,600) often places the burden on GPUs' framebuffers to store the necessary data. Any 1GB-equipped card cannot run the game at these super-high settings, and you can't 'combine' the 2x1GB framebuffers when in CrossFire. Reduce the resolution and the HD 7770 duo outmuscle a Radeon HD 7950 costing almost 3x as much.
Overclocking
A quick foray into overclocking revealed the cards to be stable at 1,155MHz core and 5,000MHz memory frequencies - the latter dictated not so much by the potential of the memory as the limit imposed by overclocking utilities and Catalyst Control Centre.
