![]() The quad core you have should give something close to the score you posted - 1558 - plus or minus maybe 100 points either way so you're doing quite well. It doesn't require a lot of memory to be functional, but unlike previous versions of Windows (XP and older, Vista handles memory a bit differently but nowhere near as efficiently as 7 does) Windows 7 makes actual use of the RAM you have, and the more you can put in a machine, the better Windows 7 will use it. Windows 7 requires less than 512MB for itself - meaning the base operating system components, and actually I've done testing on machines with 512MB of RAM and after a few reboots after the installation is complete, the system will settle itself and use about 240MB, seriously. ![]() Use the same physical drive for both actions and you choke it 50% - it can't read and write at the same time, so using two hard drives in the operation literally doubles the performance alone over a single one. You have three hard drives, use one of them for the storage of the archives, and when you extract do it to one of the other hard drives - this way you can read and write at the same time (read from source, write to target) and your decompression will improve dramatically. Here's a tip that'll improve your decompression speeds considerably: Those components can handle such decompression easily, but the storage devices pulling thousands of small pieces of files and then having to write thousands of them - high random file activity - is going to choke it big time and yes, you can see performance cut in half, literally. The basic rule of thumb (since everything relates as I said before): big large single files will decompress faster than thousands of small ones, it's just how things work, not just the CPU and RAM. I had a Core 2 Duo SP9400 recently (2.4 GHz) with 4GB of DDR3 800 in it and that had a score of ~1300 (both are laptop processors). Just for the record, this old ThinkPad T60 w/Core Duo T2300 1.66 GHz w/1.5GB DDR2 533 gives 727 on that benchmark. Those results are actually something you can use for comparison across machines, not just some random 2GB archive. ![]() ![]() Since you're using WinRAR, just do the internal benchmark at Tools - Benchmark and hardware test.
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