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.
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 - P35 OC (4x3.348GHz, 1488MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 - 680i OC (4x3.265GHz, 1451MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.67GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6700 (2x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.00GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
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Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2x2.80GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
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Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2x2.60GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
Time in Seconds (lower is better)
Photoshop is another application that appears to really benefit from a high front side bus speed. We saw some decent performance differences between 1066MHz and 1333MHz front side bus speeds and increasing that to 1488MHz seems to give another nice boost.
WinRAR - 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.
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 - P35 OC (4x3.348GHz, 1488MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 - 680i OC (4x3.265GHz, 1451MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.67GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6700 (2x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.00GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
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Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2x2.80GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
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Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2x2.60GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
Time in Seconds (lower is better)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 - P35 OC (4x3.348GHz, 1488MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 - 680i OC (4x3.265GHz, 1451MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (4x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6700 (4x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6850 (2x3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2x2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6700 (2x2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6750 (2x2.67GHz, 1333MHz FSB)
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Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
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Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (2x3.00GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
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Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2x2.80GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
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Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2x2.60GHz, 2.0GHz HTT)
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Time in Seconds (lower is better)
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