System Builder Marathon, June 2010: System Value Compared

Benchmark Results: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Games are the most expensive applications from our test suite to build for, so let’s start with a good one.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 offers awesome eye candy, yet low enough system load that even the stock $550 PC can play it smoothly. This one isn't bottlenecked by graphics performance, usually, so should shine a bright light on the more capable processor/platform.

The $1,000 machine gets the job done at an amazing 2560x1600 pixel resolution, and the above results make us wish the $550 PC had also been tested at that high resolution.

Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.