Intel Desktop Board D975XBX2

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.


Despite the memory being slower, the image manipulation speeds are faster than any other 975X or Crossfire board we've previously tested.

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 tests are slower by several seconds when compared to the fastest 975X board, although the DFI RD600 based board is still the slowest CrossFire compatible board here.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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


Decompression and decryption testing is as fast or slightly faster than the other boards tested however, even in such a short test the Intel D975XBX2 edges out a couple of seconds.