Compression1 Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a ASUS P8P67 PRO under Ubuntu 11.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. c1: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 PRO, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WDC WD6402AAEX-0 + 250GB OneTouch, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB (822/2004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892 OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 280.13, OpenGL: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 280.13, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better c1 . 21907 |=================================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better c1 . 10.12 |=================================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better c1 . 7.19 |==================================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better c1 . 117.22 |==================================================================