Quote Originally Posted by banwell View Post
Noctua Nh-d14 sell the fans on ebay and go passive!
D14 is also £90 odd, thats stupid money. £80 is as well, really, no CPU cooler should cost more than about £45 if its just a air cooled solution nomatter how exotic the design such as these "liquid CPU coolers".

Quote Originally Posted by mean6 View Post
I have tried it on multiple hdd's. Even if the file originates on my ssd raid array, when I extract it to the same array, it takes longer. The only other difference from my old system to my current system is that I had 6 gig of ram as compared with 4 gig on my Sandybridge set up. Would that be the difference? Has anybody else noticed this?
For larger archives it would make some difference, otherwise nothing noticable. If I remember right, compressing my 2GB Stalker SoC mod takes about 5 mins with 7zip using ultra compression. The resulting archive is about 850MB and takes around 1min 30secs to extract.