Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition

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.

Naturally the Core 2 Extreme X6800 equipped LGA775 mobos outperform the three AM2-based boards equipped with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 on every chipset variation, with Asus' P965 board is a fraction slower than Intel's D975XBX, despite having a better overall memory bandwidth.

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, but the second or so difference between the Asus and Intel boards are within experimental error, so can be classed as the same.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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


Decompression is a slightly different story with the Asus board giving a clearer space, dropping behind in small file decompression. In all tests the Core 2 Extreme X6800 outperforms AMD's Athlon 64 FX-62.