Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 3MP photographs taken in a variety of surroundings using the batch file processing function in the Elements Editor. We performed all of the auto fixes, including Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Colour and Sharpen before resizing the image to 640x480 and saving as a high quality JPEG.


The performance with CrossFire enabled is really very good, almost as fast as the Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP, and even when using a single card means its performance is still far from slow.

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.



Large file compression is average to slightly slow, whereas small file compression is really very good offering the fastest times of all the boards we've tested. Many small files being compressed highlights disk performance more than than a large single file.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.



In contrast, decoding the large file is really very good whereas small file decoding performance is just a bit better then average.