How taxing is DVD burning on your system?

[Byte]

Does your system start crawling and stuff? Post your specs and proggies.

 

[XBoxLPU]

My system does not crawl at all.

I burnt a dvd of 1.5 gb of install files on my notebook ( over my wireless lan ). I was browsing the internet during

Powebook 1ghz, 15 inch Tibook
512 mb, 60gb

 

[fr]

I don't think the CPU usage ever goes above 5% when I burn a DVD+R at 2.4x. I have a Celeron Tualatin @ 1.43GHz. I can do stuff whilie it is burning in the background just fine. Buffer underrun protection.

 

[RichieZ]

not very, I can do it w/ my p3 700 laptop w/ a Sony DRU-510A connected over firewire

 

[charlie21]

Pioneer A05, XP1700+@2200+, 768MB Ram...

Not taxing at all. Doesn't use much CPU (2-3%). But when I had everything on a single IDE drive, I had to be careful not to launch anything that required significant HDD access. I did coaster a few that way. For normal surfing and mp3's it was fine. You couldn't tell the difference.

Now I have a SCSI setup. One OS drive, one app drive, and my IDE drive for data. I can play Wolfenstein and burn a disc at the same time. That rocks.

Anyway. Watch your HDD access and you'll be fine. CPU is not a factor.

 

[theanimala]

I was surprised by these replies so I checked it myself. Same thing, very low when burning.

I was actually making a backup of one of my DVD's, and encoding the disc to the HD was generally using 5 to 7% of CPU power, peaking once in rare while to 10 - 15%. Guess I didn't need such a big rig after all...

 

[onlyCOpunk]

I wouldn't know. Whenever I make DVD's regardelss if they're data or video I always jsut leave my computer alone. DVD media is way too pricey to afford a coaster that could've easily been avoided. I suppose I probabyl could use my computer, but why chance it, it's only about 30 minutes of my computers time when I have to find something else to do.