Asus Commando

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.


Turning CrossFire on seemed to unlock more performance in Adobe Photoshop compared to single card mode. This improvement saw the board deliver times that were faster than we've ever seen. Even in single card mode, the board is far from a slouch performing a solidly above average.

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.


In compression testing again the Commando performs very well, and in both tests it comes out second fastest amongst the Intel boards tested.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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


Decompression is overall marginally on the slow end, despite having a solid hard drive and memory performance under synthetic testing conditions. This is not to say a second or so difference is noticeable, however.