Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X

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 AN9 32X SLI performs a touch faster than the rest, with a negligible SLI overhead unlike DFI's LANParty NF590 SLI.

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.


Small file compression suffers slightly by a few seconds, but SLI mode is faster than the rest of the boards compared by a few seconds. The large compression test performs on par with the rest of the motherboards.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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


Large file decompression performs on par with the rest of the motherboards tested against. Small decompression performs a few seconds faster than the rest of the boards tested. Small decompression is more down to hard disk I/O as well as write speeds, CPU and memory so Abit seems to have worked well to tie these all together.