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.


Image processing was slower than the DDR2-based P35 Asus P5K Deluxe, with a drop of some 20 seconds to match the speed of the cheaper Asus Commando.

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.



Both large and small file compression is slower than both DDR2 P35 and P965 boards.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



Again, the DDR3 Asus P5K3 Deluxe is slower than the other Asus DDR2 boards. It seems compression and encryption testing is much better with low latency memory.