Which is the Best Compressor

So far i searced highs n lows to find a good compressor, cause i h few to many files i need to back-up, So far i h read n seen about UHARC GUI OR CMD, can someone suggest better.
Download UHARC here:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/pub/downloads/UHARC_GUI.2007-01-19.zip
i read 2-3 GB PC GAMES crunched down to 200-350 MB, 600MB files brought down to 54 MB, using UHA compression. How is that possible.
I tried using UHARC ,but came to find out, it was same like using Winrar, only a lot slower.

Can someone h any idea or suggest better Compressor.

 

Check our poll.

 

thnsk for redirecting:
u should check these http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1075 , since i tried compressing a 10 MB setup exe, which i guess was already compressed , so my guess is UHARC couldn't compress it more. When i used winrar feature, best performane n UHARC's too, both came pretty close.
but i h read of 3GB iso file sompressed to 250MB,,,

 

This guy has some of the best comparison data for compressors i've ever come across: http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_sf.php

 

FreeArc 0.51 beats WinRAR on efficiency, that is, it compresses better, and takes only slighty longer time to do so, and to decompress.

EDIT: Seems like WinRAR is still better at compressing media files.

 

the best compressor ? Look at KGBarchiver, but it will take ages to do the thing you want it to do
http://kgbarchiver.net/

best regards,
eXPerience

 

Thnks for redirecting, the statistics looks impressive but wht is PAQ8PX, i cant find anything in Google by this name.

I dloaded FreeArc, n did a small test, i tried compressing 12.1 MB . I set the option of FreeArc to strongest encryption n highest compression, but sadly Freearc brought it down to 12.2 n creating an archive increasd by 12.3MB, while the same file by Winrar; setting with best compression, brought it down to 10.1 MB.
Looks like Winrar won here, hands down

i had heard of KGB, it will take forever to compress a 1 GB file, i h' KGB,,,
KGB Archiever 2 Beta doesn't seem to be stable n compresing imp. setup files n other data could be risky...n waste of time. It has AES-256 encryption, which by no other compressing archive has,,,making obviously the best compressing Archiever. But...but.....their has been issues.
u should check this discussion about UHARC n KGB archive....
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-22039.html

Looks like i'll h to wait for a while:
Download KGB form here:
KGB_Archiver_2beta2.msi :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgbarchiver/files/KGB%20Archiver%202/2.0%20beta%202/KGB_Archiver_2beta2.msi/download