Best cpu benchmark site that has an unrar speed test?

[tracerit]

I'm currently using an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 on my laptop. I download a lot of usenet stuff and when it's unraring the files, it slows down my CPU significantly. I also only have 3GB of DDR2 RAM.

Just wondering if it's worthwhile to upgrade to a newer laptop (i5-2430M and 8GB RAM) for my purposes but it's hard to find benchmarks for unrar speeds. CPUBenchmark.net only has one test they show. The P8400's score is rated around 1700 while the i5-2430M at 3400, safe to assume it'll be twice as fast?

 

[Arkaign]

Many many reviews will show Winrar results. But yeah the combo of faster CPU, faster ram, and generally faster hard drives make a big difference in this area. Look for 7200rpm drives of 500gb and larger for sure.

 

[386DX]

In real world usage Unraring is usually limited by your hard drive speed and not so much on CPU/RAM (as long as your system is fairly modern). When using mechanical hard drives you will notice a significant performance increase when you are unraring from one mechanical drive to another because if you unrar onto the same drive that one drive has to do both read and writes which will makes it really slow. Since you are using a laptop and most likely don't have the luxury of putting two drives in, then your best option is an SSD drive, or if you have a laptop that comes with an optical drive you can buy a hard drive caddy and replace the optical drive with another hard drive.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

if you have an SATA interface there are alot of options for an SSD upgrade

why do all the geeks at MicroCenter pronunciate Serial ATA? I never heard anyone pronunciating Parallel ATA like "PATA" it's not cool to pronunciate SATA, just say Serial ATA

rant over

 

[happy medium]

My acer laptop with a dual core 1.2 ghz Amd crap cpu is allmost as fast as my girlfriends i3 dual core laptop @ 2.5 because my drive is 7200 rpm vs her 5400rpm drive . Her laptop is only 25% faste with winrar. I can unrar the same file in 2 min vs her 1 min 30 sec. Drive speed matters here.

edit: same ram speed and amount in both laptops. Her cpu is 2x faster easy.