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CD burner on a Pentium 233?

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What speed burn do you think a P233 could reliably handle?

I'm thinking of buying a DVD burner and giving my GF my CD burner (liteon 52327s).

I don't think there's any way it could handle a 52x burn, but so you think it could handle 12 or 16x?

The system has 64mb ram.
 
Originally posted by: SomeDude22
At newegg some of the burners system requirments are a PIII 450mhz
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I'm sure those are the requirements to burn at full speed (although I never checked newegg because I'm a canadian and I don't have the privledge of buying there 🙁). I don't remember what the requirements were when 4x-16x burners were new.
 
I used to have a HP 4X burner on my pent 300 & it worked no problem, so I would think you could burn @ maybe 8-12 if you didn't use the computer while burning a disc
 
well..if it had a type of buffer underrun support, such as "burn proof" or "smart link" or wahtever they want to call it then you are fine atleast when it comes to worrying about errored discs.

Oh, and I used to use a 133mhz Pentium Machine with a 8x burner at my dad's work back in the day, and I constantly burned at 8x while surfing the net and downloading game demos ALL at the same time...my burn times were also within what you would expect. Though the machine did have 128 megs of ram, but still you should be fine...some guys there days act like you need a freaking best of a machine to do anything.

But at the same time my guess is you'll be limited to around ~20Xish give or take a few but still not bad at all
 
Think back to when 4x CD-RW drives were super fast. PCs weren't too fast then. 4x will only need 600KB/sec.
 
This is a DVD Burner we are talking about right? Last I checked the minimum for reading DVD's was something like PII-300mhz or 266 and that is 1x. Sure you could burn cd's on the burner probably somewhere around 8x. However, don't expect to get DVD's in any decent amount of time.
 
I used a 4x CD burner on a Pentium 200 with no problems. I believe you will be able to burn CDs just fine as long as you dont attempt to multi-task and keep the burn speeds down to 12X and under. DVDs may be another matter and require a faster CPU.

Newegg's minimum requirements for a DVD burner are:

Pentium III 450 MHz or faster CPU and 128 MB or higher RAM are required
650 MB HDD available capacity; and 5 GB free space for creating a DVD image file

The minimum requirements for a Lite-On combo drive, also from Newegg:

Pentium II 350MHz Processor or higher
128MB RAM or higher recommended

IMO, overall you should drop the idea and upgrade the GF's CPU/mobo/RAM instead.
 
a DVD is diffrent remember that it holds 4 times what a CD would so it would need a beefier CPU or more RAM for it to run and give the amount of data held by DVD's
 
Originally posted by: SomeDude22
a DVD is diffrent remember that it holds 4 times what a CD would so it would need a beefier CPU or more RAM for it to run and give the amount of data held by DVD's
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He is buying a DVD & giving CD burner to someone with the P233

 
Originally posted by: fatal
Originally posted by: SomeDude22
a DVD is diffrent remember that it holds 4 times what a CD would so it would need a beefier CPU or more RAM for it to run and give the amount of data held by DVD's
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He is buying a DVD & giving CD burner to someone with the P233
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most HDs that came with P1's couldn't fill the 7MS sec that 52x would need. if you have a fast hard drive and DMA enabled the CPU should not be much of an issue for stright burning (copying), if you are burning audio CD's an turn mp3's to AIFF's forget it, more ram would surely help. also get one with bufferunderun protection (lite on seems best to me). advice: get some ram and dont try to go much faster than 24Xand dont muti task.
 
I had a K6-2 333 and 64 MB of RAM and it worked just fine burning CDs at 12x. So you shouldn't have a problem writing 8x. Just make sure you're not running any unecessary applications while burning and you should be good.
 
I also had a slow system...K6 300MHz with 32MB of RAM with a 3.2GB harddisk and burned CDs at 2x! Of course, that was the fastest burner available. 🙂 IIRC, $150 or so after MIR at an after-thanksgiving day sale at Best Buy.
 
I burned at 4x on a pentium 200 and the burner didn't even have any buffer-underrun protection tech. if I touched the computer it was an instant coaster.
 
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