Is having Quad Core not supposed to speed up unpackin on WinRar???
Cos to me... it's the same speed it's always been since i had an XP2800 Proc
all those years ago. Benchmarks done on Quad or Dual Cores reported a faster
response with WinRar.

Can someone clarify if there's somin i'm doing wrong here........

Tam...

this problem is exactly what Im having right now, It takes a bout 1 hour to unpack a 2gb file
and I have the Q6600

WinRAR homepage says that they added multithreading (and thus support for multiple CPUs) in version 3.60

Have you tried http://www.7-zip.org/? It supports un-raring.

I'm using 3.70. But I'm unraring from my WD MyBook HDD (connected via Firewire)
so maybe that's the issue, but shouldn;t be tho!

I feel inclined to add that WinRAR is an archiving program, designed to compress and uncompress files... which can (and typically are) stored on the hard drive. That said...

...your hard drive might have more to do with WinRAR performance than your processor. Either way, it's WinRAR. It doesn't take that long.

the transfer rate on that firewire is going to be around 27~28mb/s as compared to 50~70mb/s for a reg IDE/SATA drive.

Hard Drievs are usually the slowest part of a PC, so in saying that, Winrar will only go as fast as your hard drive allows, get a WD Raptor, then you'll see the difference.

I noticed that WinRAR doesn't necessarily run faster on quad-cores and that it will not allow two instances of itself to run. Not sure exactly what that means but I wouldn't worry about it either way.

what is the biggest capacity a WD raptor can offer?

147 GiB I beleve.

IMO they are a waste of money. No way wud i pay well over the odds for a HDD that is faster - but not by much. They are a f**kin rip off. You could get 3 WD HDD's totalling
600GB or more for the price you pay for those raptors. They have been at a high price
for such a low amount of disk for so long. WD are takin the p**s with those prices

FordGT sed:

[quoteI noticed that WinRAR doesn't necessarily run faster on quad-cores and that it will not allow two instances of itself to run. Not sure exactly what that means but I wouldn't worry about it either way.
][/quote]

I know exactly what you mean. I could run sevral instances of Unraring and there'd be no
difference in appliction speed? Why.. cos i already tried it!

you must use ssd to see pc going faster, hard drive are too slow to see any improvment in general with new cpu
as an example ssd boot time on x64bit window7, quad cpu 2.8ghz, ram 4gb, is 8-9 seconds....

This doesn't seem to be the case for me oddly. I am unable to unpack a 6gb file in roughly 6-9 minutes. I can do a test tonight to make sure.

I can do that same. I think at that time, I might've been having a few issues.
Also, the WinRar at that particular time, was only 32Bit. Now it's 64Bit.
64Bit makes a considerable difference too albiet this thread was created some
2 years ago

Yeah, just realized this was created a long time ago haha, damn!