Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus

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.


Photoshop on the P5N32-E SLI Plus performs the fastest we've tested yet, even exceeding that of the Striker at stock speeds. There is an SLI overhead of about twenty seconds though which puts it at the slower end of the scale compared to the other boards here.

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.


Large and small file compression and encryption perform exceptionally well, even in excess of that of the Striker in small file testing.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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


Large file decompression is on average slightly slower, but only by a mere second, whilst small file decompression is about average. Again though, there's only a few seconds in it across the board.