Vadim Cepheus Q80

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 Vadim PC completely annihilates the Alienware thanks to the clock speed advantage and extra CPU cores.

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 and encryption is better performing in both large and small files than the Alienware.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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

Decompression is actually slower because of the RAID setup which increases the average latency when dealing with many small files, rather than where it excels: in consistent large file access.