Windows 7 Zip

Recently ive been wondering the reason behind why Bit-Tech doesnt use this as one of its standard benching tools.

It seems pretty logical that it would be included since , A) its free , B) its a bloody good performer and C) its available as a native 64 bit app. Since Paint.net has been thrown in because its a native 64bit app i was wondering how come 7 zipdidnt have it's hat thrown into the benchmarking fold too

is there a reason behind this?, Does anyone else wonder or would like to see it thrown in?

 

Simple: we've scripted WinRAR to do its four tests with just one click.

If we can easily do the same for 7-Zip, we would use probably use that too, however WinRAR is far more widely used than 7 Zip

 

WTF is 7-ZIP, and why should I use it over windows built-in zip functionality or WinRAR?

 

But more people use Photoshop than Paint.net yet you still use that, thats what got me wondering mate

but cheers for the answer

 

7-Zip is a compression utility that opens way more archive types than window's built in app.
Opens more than WinRAR too I think.
Has its own compression routine that's more effective than RAR in many cases.
And its free.

Need any more reasons?

linkage.

 

Paint.NET is completely free, WinRAR has a 30-day+ fully functional trial too.

Photoshop costs several hundred wonger

It's just the time to script Photoshop elements (and not have to install it every time) and 7-zip. Paint.NET has PDNBench which makes it convenient but I'd happily use Adobe over it.

 

Never heard of 7 zip

Winrar is pretty much the standard.

 

I always use 7zip. I almost got in trouble for installing it at work...till i showed them its free

 

The standard what?
Compression utility?
Well, it took over from Winzip back in the day.
I reckon 7zip will take over from winRAR tbh.

 

I think he was being sarcastic, hence the smilies.

WinZIP is bad because it doesn't support nearly any formats, some of them being widely used (such as RAR and 7Z).

I think 7-Zip has a bit ugly GUI.

 

It's always good when benchmarking methods use free and Open-Source software, but 7-Zip can't actually compress to .rar due to license restrictions.

If you want to put forward a free compressor, Zip Genius compresses to far more filetypes (though still not to .rar).

But another reason to use WinRar is that it runs on Win, Mac, and Linux OS. The free ones don't.

 

WinRar can be a real pain in linux (licence restrictions) whilst bzip is included in every base system as its needed in the boot proccess.

 

7 Zip is the best!

Used all the others - prefer the less flashy, but better performance of 7 Zip.......

Matt

 

You could maybe add 7zip to the benchmarks compressing the same files as RAR to the 7zip format.
Would make an interesting comparison.

 

Surely you're just getting away from hardware testing then. Running the same test just with different software. Seems pointless if you ask me.

 

I've always been an IZArc man myself. Not opensource (freeware), but has the advantage of supporting (at least decompressing) everything (eeeeeveerything: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO, ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG).

I also prefer the interface to 7-Zip, but I spose that is subjective.

(is anyone else entirely unsurprised that this thread has drifted off of the question original question and on to this one? [I know I'm perpetuating this]. In response to the original question:I think WinRar is fine as a benchmark, and that swapping it would be troublesome as constancy is vital in benchmarking)

 

but nobody is suggesting swapping from it, ive seen a few other sites where 7 zip and WinRAR are used for benchmarks together, so i think they could co-exist tbh

 

I stand by gzip.

 

Good point.

Another good point.

 

It's good to see you guys listened and are now using 7Zip

and i must say the kinda numbers it shows you REALLY illustrates how good a benchmark it is because it loves memory & cores and obviously scales REAL nice

Hell the numbers its showing in the OC i7 920 is astonishing!

one question though are you guys using the x32 or x64 version? Because you havent said which one your using