Everest Home Edition from Lavalys is a excellent measure of the synthetic numbers. The key test we use here is another memory latency test, which works a bit different than that of Sciencemark. A significant gain is again noted here, with decreased latencies which means better performance for the end user.


File compression is one of the most intensive actions that our computer can go through. Almost everyone has used WinRAR at some time or another, compressing or decompressing files for storage or to send files off to other people. We take a 699MB file and test extractions on two different hard drives, as HDD’s also figure in to compression activities. As we can see here, our FSB overclock makes a noticeable difference, with even our very quick Western Digital Raptor registering a 4 second decrease in time. A similar result comes from testing on our 400GB Western Digital, though the improvement is even better with a 7 second drop in time. We can see that only so much can be gained in compression from fast hard drives, but that processor and bus speeds offer a respectable boost also.