Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 three 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 Biostar TF7050-M2 delivers identical performance to the MSI 690G board when using a discrete graphics card, however it is some 40 seconds slower when using the IGP instead. Both are still far faster than the MSI G965 board, which takes a few minutes more because of its slower memory support (and different CPU).

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.



In both tests, the Biostar surprisingly pulls out ahead of the MSI 690G chipset by a few seconds, even though both CPU and memory are the same. The MSI 690G performance is more comparable to MSI G965's performance instead.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



Decoding performance is as good as it gets, as both MSI 690G and Biostar 7050 match each other on both accounts and also outperform the MSI G965.