EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI

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.

Whilst not the outright best performing the EVGA still slightly out performs the other Nvidia boards, but the other alternative Intel chispets (Intel P965, Intel 975X) are still slightly faster.

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.

The EVGA can't quite keep up with the other Nvidia boards in compression and encryption testing, but this time out performs the Intel and AMD chipsets.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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

Whilst there's only a few seconds difference across the board, the EVGA manages to be average at best, but still matches most other Nvidia-based boards.