While the latest installment of Call of Duty adds some impressive visuals, it still presents a relatively light load for high-end graphics solutions. With CrossFire boosting even our cheapest system, we expect to reach CPU performance limits at most settings.


An overclocked Core i7 processor nearly uncaps Modern Warfare 2 and all of the systems appear CPU-limited at stock speed. Even with its far more restrictive CPU limits, the $750 machine is completely playable at its highest-tested resolution and settings.
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Summary
- The Bigger They Come…
- Test Settings
- Benchmark Results: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Benchmark Results: Crysis
- Benchmark Results: DiRT 2
- Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
- Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: 3DMark And PCMark
- Benchmark Results: SiSoftware Sandra
- Power And Efficiency
- The Harder They Fall
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Are alternatively when it comes to number crunching and CPU-intensive operations such as media work Intel's architecture crushes AMD.
That's why these types of software run better on Core i7, not because they've been programmed to prefer Intel.