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.


A direct performance comparison with the other boards using a Core 2 Extreme X6800 shows the Gigabyte is a few seconds slower. Pairing the board with an E6300 at stock speed means you'll have to wait an extra two and a half minutes for your photos to be processed.

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.



File compression is just as fast as the P965 board also at 3-3-3-9 in large compression, and fastest when it came to small file compression testing.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



Again the Gigabyte performs extremely well and is joint fastest decompressing the large and small file RARs.