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 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.



Gigabyte’s X48T-DQ6 performs top in the small file compression by a small margin, but it drops a few seconds in large compression testing compared to the XFX nForce 790i Ultra SLI. It is faster than both the XFX nForce 780i SLI and the MSI though.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



Decompression testing and again the X48T-DQ6 performs consistently better or as good as the fastest boards, although there's very little in it across everything.