compression-2048 Intel Pentium E6600 testing with a ASUS P3-P5G43 and Intel 4 IGP on SUSE LINUX 12.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Compression test suite with 2GB RAM: Processor: Intel Pentium E6600 @ 3.06GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P3-P5G43, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 40GB INTEL SSDSA2M040 + 320GB Hitachi HDS72103, Graphics: Intel 4 IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC1200, Monitor: VW222, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: SUSE LINUX 12.2, Kernel: 3.4.11-2.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: intel 2.20.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Compression test suite with 2GB RAM . 4250 |=================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Compression test suite with 2GB RAM . 38.24 |================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Compression test suite with 2GB RAM . 49.29 |================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Compression test suite with 2GB RAM . 267.98 |=================================