9300M GS

[Wrick]

I just bought a Asus X83VB-X2. It is a laptop with a T6400 at 2.0Ghz with 2Mb L2 cache, and a 9300M GS with 512Mb of dedicated video memory. I bought this for general web surfing and for streaming web video.

With the 9300M GS I expected it to handle HD web video. I hooked it up to my Panny TH-42PX60U via HDMI and fired up a HD episode of Lost via the ABC website. Frames rates were good wit only some stuttering following a commercial. Then about 45 minutes into the episode the laptop froze. Following a reboot I checked the CPU usage while SD video of Scrubs and it was at 100%.

I have read that an Atom when combined with the 9300M GS runs at 60% when watching HD video in media player. Is there some problem with HD decoding via a dedicated graphics card when watching web video?

I have just started investigating this problem so any help would be great.

It looks like when I use Firefox and watch streaming HD video there is 85% to 100% CPU usage. When I use Internet Explorer there is 45% to 60% CPU usage.

 

[shiftstealth]

The cpu and the video card are both very slow for HD quality.

You probably got it hot and ANGRY.

 

[frozenlead]

Update your drivers, first, and then watch your temps while playing.

It should be noted that % CPU usage isn't a true measure of "how much" your CPU is being "used".

 

[Wrick]

I know the 9300M GS is not a power house. I would not expect it to handle bluray quality HD, but low bitrate 720p streaming intraweb HD should not be a problem for it.