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How come 48x burners system requirments are p2 266's?

Postby EDF587 on Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:03 pm

Does this mean it will run at the max burn speed on my PC?
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Postby lightningbaron on Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:09 pm

The max speed will depend on the CDRW drive and the media.

Just curious, what CDRW drive is in question?
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Postby EDF587 on Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:42 pm

Its was on bestbuy.com. So if I have good media it should all burn well?
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Postby dhc014 on Tue Dec 17, 2002 11:08 pm

Not necessarily. It depends on the rest of your system too.
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Postby EDF587 on Wed Dec 18, 2002 12:09 am

here are my specs

i have a p2 267
96mb ram
20gig hd

old and dying 8x8x32
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Postby TheWizard on Wed Dec 18, 2002 11:26 pm

Which 48X burner requires a PII-266? I have an LG GCE-8320B and it requires a PII-350MHz, and that's only a 32X burner! I think to burn successfully at 48X, you need a beefier machine than a PII-266.
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Postby BillyG on Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:25 am

I have a freind who has an older Pentium 233 (96mb on a Gigabyte motherboard with Intel HX chipset, 1997 vintage!) and its working just fine with a Lite-On 40x. It will burn a CD-R at 40X with nero but I suggested using 24x or 32x for safekeeping.

If youre scared that a 48X burner wont work I suggest getting a 16X or 24X burner for your P266. Check www.pricewatch.com
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Postby cfitz on Thu Dec 19, 2002 10:35 am

Remember that just because a burner has a high top speed doesn't mean that you have to use that top speed. For example, the speedy 52x LiteOn will burn as slowly as 4x. So I recommend to even people with older computers that they buy a newer high speed drive rather than an older low speed drive. You can use it at lower speeds now if required, and at higher speeds later if you get a new computer. If, instead, you buy a lower speed drive, you will be stuck with that lower speed no matter what computer you put it in.

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Postby blakerwry on Fri Dec 20, 2002 1:32 pm

I think they "say" that they require a Pentium II 266 pentium II 350 because they want a chipset that supports both DMA and UDMA.

The 440FX and BX Chipsets (used in slot 1 motherbaords) provides these features. The FX was a 66mHz chipset and the BX was a 66/100Mhz chipset officially. So in an FX, you would find PII233-333, in a BX you could find PII233-450 and Katmai/Coppermine PIII's.
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Postby blakerwry on Fri Dec 20, 2002 1:34 pm

I should say that these are not the 1st chipsets to support such things...

I personally, think that the CD-R companies are being a little sloppy with their requirements. Maybe they should use "recomended" and a "minimum" requirement lists like current games do.
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Postby EDF587 on Fri Dec 20, 2002 4:10 pm

so does that mean i can still run the burner on my system
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Postby blakerwry on Sat Dec 21, 2002 3:10 am

The burner should run in any ATAPI compatible IDE controller (anything that can run a CD drive will run the burner)


But there is a difference between simply running and obtaining the maximum performance out of the drive and/or having to troubleshoot possible problems.

If your motherboard is based on the FX or the BX chipsets and allows running the hard drive CD drive in DMA mode you will have great read performance. As for writing... to be able to write at maximum speed you may encounter problems if you are simultaneoulsy multitasking while performing the write...
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Postby KuoH on Sat Dec 21, 2002 4:15 am

I don't know about a p2-266, but I've got a P2-333 and it'll burn data and WAV's at 48x, but not MP3's. Those burn at 4x max on my system. Anything higher, and the buffers empty out while the system tries to keep up with decoding.

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Postby EDF587 on Sun Dec 22, 2002 12:07 am

I will not multitask when I write. I will just burn
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