? about requirements for Cendyne DVD Burner

[1Cheap2Crazy]

My system: P-III 1 GHz. 256K RAM. On-board video, no AGP slot. Windows XP.

I'm tinking of getting the Cendyne DVD +/- Burner, but I noticed that the requirements are for the following: 16MB AGP Video Card (32MB Recommended)(PCI and Onboard AGP Not Supported).

Does that mean if I buy this burner I can't burn DVDs? What if I buy an nforce video motherboard with the video chip on board, would this burner still be useless?

Thanks

 

[EeyoreX]

Since the IGP nForce2 has integrated onboard AGP graphics, the drive would not be supported. Of course, unsupported devices sometimes work, but that's your call if you are going to buy it and try and find out. Also, it is probably cheaper to buy a new AGP video card than to buy a new motherboard, if you are going to spend ~$130 on an IGP motherboard why not just buy a good video card instead?

[EDIT]My bad, I seem to have missed your first line with your system specs. You could probably buy a cheaper motherboard/video card option than going with nForce2 since you'd also have to grab an Athlon CPU in addition to the board.[/EDIT]

\Dan

 

[acejj26]

my guess is that it needs a certain amount of memory bandwidth through the PCI bus to operate properly, and that's why it doesn't want a PCI video card or integrated video. both of those would kill memory bandwidth and might mess up the burning operation.

however, as an aside, i would have to think someone running nforce2 graphics using DDR memory will be fine. there's more than enough memory bandwidth to go around in that case.

in your case, you could try it and return it if it doesn't work properly in your system. beware restocking fees though.