File Compression & Encryption:

Website: WinRAR
We used the Intel X25-M SSD to provide a uniform performance base between all the boards tested in file compression and decompression.



We see a nice linear increase for large file compression, and a smaller one for small file but generally improving the latencies and frequency does what it should. 1T versus 2T performance makes a second difference in both tests - not much at all - and again we feel the overclocked score is partly due to the slightly elevated CPU frequency as well.

Basically, if you fork out for low latency 1,333MHz C7 modules, they'll perform really very close to 1,600MHz C9, but go for 1,333MHz C9s and there's a couple of seconds again for large file compression, although nothing for small file - that could be a considerable money saving, so are a few seconds worth it?



Simply optimising the CPU memory frequency alone will increase the performance by two to three seconds here, so combined with cheaper memory, it could yield the same result as buying faster DIMMs or both together elevates the performance by a further second or two.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.





Memory performance - CPU or DIMM - does nothing for file decompression performance here, the bottleneck is elsewhere (likely the hard drive) so if you move a lot of storage data in particular, spend your money on fast HDD arrays, not fancy memory arrays.