Tech Focus: Just How Useful/Accurate Are PC Benchmarks Anyway?

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
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There's something wrong with the benchmark tools built into a range of PC games, often failing spectacularly to reflect real-life in-game performance. So just how bad are some of these benchmark modes and what can be done to improve things?

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