Shuttle SD37P2

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.

The SD37P2 was faster than both the other boards, reducing the processing time by nearly 20 seconds over the time it took DFI's Infinity 975X/G to do the same test.

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.

Compression tests are a little slower than the DFI, but still way out ahead of the Asus.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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

In decompression the SD37P2 fractionally beats both boards, indicating a good SATA implementation as well, despite having the same chipset as the DFI board.