Our good friends at Cyberlink kindly supplied the software for our Bluray and conversion tests.
Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 is one of the finest solutions for the Blu-Ray experience on Windows and we found this software to work perfectly with this chipset. We tested with the Bluray Disc of Avatar, one of our favourite sci-fi films in recent years.
The added processing power certainly helps the Alienware system to record the lowest processing overhead at an average of 8 percent.
We then recorded the CPU demand over a specific set of time to get a ‘real world’ rolling scale of activity. The Core i7 processor is easily capable of delivering a fantastic High Definition media experience.