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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. [Ed - Spoiler warning next time please!!]

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

You can see in the higher resolutions (and that's where the X2 really starts to work) the performance is nearly doubled over the regular Radeon HD 3870. We can now play the game with maxed out image quality settings at 2560x1600 pretty decent.

The specifications between the reference Radeon 3870 X2 and the one from PowerColor; therefore throughout the review you'll see exactly the same performance.

Call of Duty 4 image Quality setting:

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