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.
Average load is around 9 percent, which splits out across the 8 logical threads. This machine can easily handle multiple tasks in a multitasking environment, even when enjoying HD video content.
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 delivers the best results we have recorded from a laptop system.