Asus Crosshair

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.

On average the Asus Crosshair is slightly slower in our Photoshop image editing test, although only by a few seconds over the course of six and a half minutes. We see a clear SLI overhead like on the DFI.

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.

Overall the compression tests are a fraction slower on the Asus Crosshair with it performing similarly to the Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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

Large decompression is a second slower than the other nForce 590 SLI boards but small decompression performance comes in second best above the DFI nForce 590 SLI and Sapphire RD580.