File Compression & Encryption:

Website: WinRAR

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 a 176MB MPEG-2 source file with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs with the same compression settings.



Again the EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW sits along the bottom in both large and small file compression tests.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



Decompression isn't so bad though - in the large file test it sits above the XFX nForce 780i SLI by a second, and is under a second off the fastest times, however the table is only three seconds from top to bottom.

In small file decompression again the EVGA is a little on the slow side again, but it's still fractionally faster than the XFX again.