Many people who have media systems will be familiar with the Matroska (.mkv) file format which is often used for high definition video. In this test we will be using VLC Media Player to play a 1080P MKV file while recording CPU usage using Performance Monitor.
The CPU usage was very high throughout this test but not high enough to affect the playback negatively. As long as you don't have a great number of programs running in the background you shouldn't run into any issues.