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WinRAR

OOOHHHH BOY!

The Core 2 Quad QX9770 is SLAUGHTERED for WinRAR by all of the Core i7 920 / 940 / 965 processors at stock speed, even when the QX9770 is overclocked to 4.05GHz.

The 3.2GHz Core i7 965 has almost twice the WinRAR-MT score of the 3.2GHz QX9770!

The average seek time for the SSD was 0.1ms.

HDTach

The Intel SSD smokes the Seagate 10.7 7200rpm IDE drive it was tested against with at least 212MB/sec vs. 61MB/sec average read speed, and the results are largely independent of clock rate or processor. A VERY nice and fast drive!

HDTune

HDTune confirms the smoking hot speed of the Intel XM25 SSD, however please note that the scale distorts the minor difference in these average read speeds. Again, the average seek time for the SSD was 0.1ms.