Gaming: Call of Duty 4

Activision recently released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the next installment in the popular war game series. Moving away from the World War II setting, Modern Warfare instead centers around a conflict involving Russia and the Middle East. And hey, you even get to die ... and then continue the game in the past.

We'll suit up today in our best cloaking gear for COD4. For this benchmark we disguise ourselves in the Ghillie suit, load up ACT II - All Ghillied up.

I just love the game, and played it to the end already. This particular level I liked the most. Not just for gameplay, but also the intense and dense graphics utilized are breathtaking. Massive high-quality texturing, shaders and a serious amount of shadows, fog and debris are applied in this level to mask and hide as best as you can.

The ECS card is showing close to 8800 GTS 512MB performance due to its default higher clock speeds; so I decided to compare it with its closest competition.

Image Quality setting:

• 4x Anti Aliasing
• 16x anisotropic filtering
• All settings maxed out

The level where we measure and the image quality settings used