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.

File compression and decompression is an area in which the X58 Pro faired particularly badly. In fact it came last in every test bar one where it came join last with the Foxconn Blood Rage.



Compressing and encrypting small files took the X58 Pro the same amount of time as the Foxconn Blood Rage, with the boards coming in joint-last, but it's only a couple of seconds adrift.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



The X58 Pro has a particularly dismal result in the small file decompression and decryption test, where it was a full three seconds behind the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P which was the next fastest (or should that be slowest?) board.