ASRock ION3D (152B with Bluray) Review featuring Cyberlink

The meat and bones of this system is with media performance, and our good friends at Cyberlink kindly supplied the software today for our Bluray and conversion tests. This software fully supports the nVidia Ion platform so we can accurately measure performance when calling upon the GT218 for hardware acceleration.

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 SunShine and Avatar, two of our favourite sci-fi films in recent years.

PowerDVD10 is using the nVidia graphics power to reduce the load which helps keep average loads below 30%.

Reading across a section of playback time we can see that the CPU demand varies between 15% and 35%, an excellent set of results for both Cyberlink, Intel and nVidia.

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