Winrar benchmark world record on Nehalem
 

A Russian overclocker named Dedal posted a new world record today on the Winrar benchmark utility, which measures the speed of compression. The new world record, achieved on a Core I7 platform with an 965 clocked at 4.1Ghz, is set at 5760 KB/s.

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=4095

Setup:

Corei7 ES BOXed cooler
Intel X58
3*1024 CSX2000 Diablo
HDD: CF 4Gb 300x
GeForce 7800GTX :)





and SuperPi 32M on same freq (tweaks: LSC only)




CPU nooot realy maximized

is 5760kb/s fast? what are typical scores of 3ghz C2D ?

1500 KB/s

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=137862

so winrar is nicely multithreaded:)

I think so, yes :)