Slower in some tasks

[Aruffell]

I have a friend who has a 3200 Winchester and 1gb Ram.

He has it clocked to 2.4ghz.

He can unrar a film (4.35gb in under 2 minutes)

I've seen a screenshot so i know he's not lying

My spec is this -

Athlon Opteron 146 @2.6Hz
DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
2Gb G.Skill ZX
BFG nVidia GeForce 7800 GT OC VIVO
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
HDA X-Mystique
Hiper Modular Type-R 580W PSU

I'm unrarring a 4.3gb DVD and it just took 7/8 minutes

Why is it so slow?

Andy

 

[Gavin]

Andy....Is your life really that busy that you cant wait to unrar a private home movie in 8 mins

Unless of course its a Home adult movie in which i would invest in a server just for this!

 

[Lanz]

Have your RAR temp folder directory on a different phyical disk to where your actual RAR file is. You can change this in winrar options.

 

[Aruffell]

Yes lol

 

[james32]

mine takes about 2mins 30 secs, drive is western digital 400 16mb cache
my seagate 300gb drive takes about 5mins, all be it its on the slower controller (promise ) and unraring a 4.35gb file is nothing to do with processor speed
more memory and transfer rate of your motherboard IO

your mate must be running raid 0?
because when i raid my 2 300gb seagate drives it takes 2 mins this again is on the slower promise controller and not my intel.