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.


Despite the results being an average of three runs, the 7900 GTX results for the MSI P35 Diamond are exactly the same Asus P5K3 Deluxe, and fractionally faster then the P5K3 Premium. CrossFire is a touch slower in comparison, but nothing noticeable.

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 single card test on the P35 Diamond is again, on average, exactly the same speed as the P5K3 Deluxe, and both are faster than the P5K3 Premium. The small file compression on the MSI is faster than the other two boards, but CrossFire is again a fraction slower on the P35 Diamond.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



Large file compression is a little slower in a single card scenario, and far slower in CrossFire. However the MSI is far better in small file decompression with a single graphics cards.