Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 3-Mega Pixel 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.


The Asus P5K Pro almost matches the Gigabyte EP35-DS4 in performance - there's about a second between them on average, and it's also a few seconds faster than the MSI P35 Platinum, however across the board there's no noticeable difference between the P35 boards. All were consistently faster than the Abit IX38 QuadGT though.

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 P5K Pro consistently excelled in the compression testing, performing several seconds faster than the competition, particularly in large file.