Aria GLADIATOR Sparta i5 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle Review

The Matroska Media container is a very popular, open standard Multimedia container which is usually found as .MKV files. It is a very popular format in enthusiast circles and can be played directly in VLC or Windows Media Player with suitable codecs installed.

We played our 1080P MKV rip of The Dark Knight using the latest version of VLC Media Player.

Despite its higher operational frequency, the Gladiator Sparta i5's CPU utilisation figure for 1080P media playback is slightly higher than that of the 4770K-based system. At 6% utilisation the figure still matches that set by AMD's FX-8350 processor and leaves plenty of the 4670K CPU's power free to run other operations.

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