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I'm pretty sure it does due to some observations I've made, but I'd like someone else to help me confirm this. I have a superbly crappy laptop (A4-3305m APU) which I can't wait to replace but for the time being, I'm doing everything I can to ensure that I can get the most optimized performance levels out of this thing. It's CPU usage often reaches 100% on both cores in even the most menial tasks.
Anyway, on VLC media player for example, I didn't check my CPU usage but I noticed that on certain videos which already had high volume, if I tried to push the volume to 112% or greater the video would begin to artifact or the sound would cutout or distort. The same videos acquired from the same source worked fine at 200% on my desktop at home (FX-6300). So from these observations I'd say that volume eats up a good chunk of CPU usage, but again, someone to confirm this for me would be great.
Lastly, if this is the case and volume can have a large effect on CPU usage, I'm guessing that when paired with speakers, it'd be more optimal to turn my PC volume to 50% and then up my speakers to twice their usual volume, right?
Anyway, on VLC media player for example, I didn't check my CPU usage but I noticed that on certain videos which already had high volume, if I tried to push the volume to 112% or greater the video would begin to artifact or the sound would cutout or distort. The same videos acquired from the same source worked fine at 200% on my desktop at home (FX-6300). So from these observations I'd say that volume eats up a good chunk of CPU usage, but again, someone to confirm this for me would be great.
Lastly, if this is the case and volume can have a large effect on CPU usage, I'm guessing that when paired with speakers, it'd be more optimal to turn my PC volume to 50% and then up my speakers to twice their usual volume, right?
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