Intel's Core 2 Duo processors

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.

We're starting to see a similar pattern here - the three Core 2 Duo processors with 4MB of L2 cache are dominating procedings.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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

The story is the same when decompressing and decrypting the archives.