SOLVED Operating on NTFS file compression

[anton3]

Picking up a new motherboard soon and I've considered replacing my processor to a better overclocking one in the FX series but being within a budget the performance:cost for 2 cores is not really worth it

I came across the concept of NTFS file compression in my Windows 8 pro operating system and did some research on the application of it but as it stands im using a low quality 320gb hard drive and stock 3.0 phenom ii 945 so real time testing didn't work out as planned. In addition to that I'm unable to find any information on the compression / decompression core usage; example: bzip2 will use more than one core when compressing but 7zip will use 2, or any benchmarks taken during video / audio playback or gaming.

Does anyone have any information on this or currently use the file compression method for hardware intensive games/programs?

Processor: Phenom ii x4 945 deneb 3.0
RAM : PNY optima 1033mhz 6-6-6-15 8 ddr3
OS: Windows 8.1 PRO
Graphics card: 9800gx2
Motherboard: Foxconn a78ax 3.0

Looking to upgrade to

Processor: Fx 4300 / 6300 ( may stay with my 945 )
RAM : 16GB 1033mhz 6-6-6-15 ( if it stays stable )
OS: windows 8.1 pro on a 32gb SSD boot drive
Storage: ~100gb SSD for gaming
Graphics card: Radeon 260x crossfire
Motherboard: ASrock Extreme3 or Extreme4

The Gpu's along with a new motherboard is pretty much my budget, originally wanted to get a 760 GTX but I've never had a crossfire/sli setup. Interested to see how mantel and tiled resources work out and I may as well just get a new power supply for overclocking anyway.

 

[trents]

There is a little overhead involved in compressing/decompressing compressed files but very little and any modern CPU will quickly absorb the overhead so that in typical, everyday computing you won't even notice it. If you are doing a lot of disc intensive computing like zipping and unzipping large files and programs then you would probably notice it.

 

[anton3]

So the SSD or HDD I'd use for large NTFS file compression in general to compensate for the heavy disc usage is more than capable of opening/loading anything for the NTFS benefits to easily be overlooked.

 

[trents]

I'm not clear about what you are asking in post #3. "NTFS benefits?" What do you mean by asking if the SSD or HDD is "more than capable of opening/loading anything . . ."? The compression work is done by the CPU/memory, not the disc but the read/write speed of the disc will impact overall performance in file compression or file rendering like in audio video format conversions.

 

[trents]

When you turn NTFS file compression on I believe that every file on the disc is compressed. Some files will compress very little and some kinds a great deal.