Can I use a P133 for a burning station?

[Futuramatic]

64MB RAM
P133

Will this work for a burn station? Burning, and ONLY burning.. Ricoh 7040a. not much CD copying, more of file archiving.

I would use this cause its free.

 

[Mucman]

I have a P150 with 32M and a CL 8x/4x/32x. It can only seem to burn at 4x but otherwise it works fine.

 

[Fardringle]

It depends a lot on the CD-R drive you are using. What does the manual/box list as being the minimum requirements? If it's a P133 or less, then you're fine. If not, then you may have problems. (My Plextor drive won't work with anything less than a P200...)

 

[Syborg1211]

I know a guy with an 8x burner that can't burn at 8x since he has a slow processor. He is limited to 2x or 4x I believe. Next time I see him online I will ask him what his processor speed is.

 

[Syborg1211]

My friend had a 166 and he could only burn at 2x because his processor was too slow.

 

[Soccerman]

theoretically, it should depend the most on the IDE devices, and the IDE controller to which the CD Burner is connected.

however the CPU matters quite a bit when it comes to IDE data transfer as well, so anything u can do to increase the speed of the CPU, or decrease the CPU requirements would help correct?

so, if it at all were possible (sounds like u don't want to spend any money on this), go SCSI, or upgrade the CPU to 233, simply to be sure that u can burn at all..