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.



The Gigabyte 785G board performs as expected: faster than the older DDR2 Asus 780G, but slower than the MSI 770 that doesn't have to share its DDR3 bandwidth with an IGP. There's very little between all the boards though - nothing detectable in the real world.

Despite being multi-threaded, the extra core doesn't make a difference here as the Gigabyte 785G makes not much more of a performance improvement compared to the MSI 770, but both the 785G and 780G still seem to do better in small file compression though.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



The southbridge SATA performance is pretty consistent across SB700 and SB710, at stock settings or overclocked, with only at most a second gap in the decompression tests.