Shuttle SN27P2

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.


Despite the memory latency difference, the performance in Adobe Photoshop is better than a lot of the higher end nForce 590SLI/RD580 boards we've tested.

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.


We found that memory performance has quite a large effect in our compression tests here and in this case is no exception. The lower timings make the ST27P2 several seconds slower than the equivilient nForce 5xx boards, but still faster than the RD580 ECS.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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


Decompression performs on par with the rest of the boards, plus/minus a second here or there.