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Decked out PC slows down when burning DVD's.

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daveymark

Lifer
I have a dimension 8400 P4 550 3.4ghz, 2gb of ram 80gb SATA hdd, LG dvd burner GSA 4163B w/latest firmware update v1.06. Fresh install of WinXP.

Whenever I go to burn/copy a DVD, I can't multitask. I have DMA enabled on the drive. The DVD's burn and play perfectly fine.

I'm using DVD Shirnk with Nero Express.

I would like to play games or at least surf the net when backing up a DVD, but this is not possible. From what I've heard, my system should be plenty fast for multitasking.

Any suggestions?
 
In my experience, DVDShrink will consume nearly 100% of cpu cycles, on most any processor. It wasn't until I got my dual-core X2 4200 that I could multitask while crunching DVD's, and I think that's only because DVDShrink can't take advantage of the second core.
 
Originally posted by: Severian
In my experience, DVDShrink will consume nearly 100% of cpu cycles, on most any processor. It wasn't until I got my dual-core X2 4200 that I could multitask while crunching DVD's, and I think that's only because DVDShrink can't take advantage of the second core.
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I agree...this is a very resourse intensive operation...I have never even thought about multi-tasking while burning DVD's. It just isnt a good practice.
 
Originally posted by: Severian
In my experience, DVDShrink will consume nearly 100% of cpu cycles, on most any processor. It wasn't until I got my dual-core X2 4200 that I could multitask while crunching DVD's, and I think that's only because DVDShrink can't take advantage of the second core.
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Yeah, CD / DVD ripping will bring any single core PC to its knees, regarding of processor speed, because it will take all the available CPU resources to itself. When I'm ripping something, I just use Firefox to browse the web but that's it.

Playing games while ripping / encoding is absolutely out of the question me thinks, at least on single core rigs. Heck, even minimizing windows is sluggish when doing something that intensive. Serial Von Newmann architecture FTW :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Severian
In my experience, DVDShrink will consume nearly 100% of cpu cycles, on most any processor. It wasn't until I got my dual-core X2 4200 that I could multitask while crunching DVD's, and I think that's only because DVDShrink can't take advantage of the second core.
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thanks, looks like I might be "upgrading" then. would a D 805 suffice?
 
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