Overclocking my CDRW Drive?????

[Pennstate]

Ok, I have a S&F 6x4x24x CDRW (SAF CD-RW6424A) and I just installed CloneCD 2.8.3.1 to back up my Office 2000 discs. The writer info page correctly detects my CDRW but it also said CloneCD does not use that info. In the Copy image to CD menu, I can manually select the write speed. For the heck of it, I selected 8x instead of 6X. It just finished burning and the CD seems to work fine. Did I just overclocked my CDRW???

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

i have a plextor 8x burner and I was wondering the same thing. I haven't tried it yet. I have some 12x discs that I was wondering if I could burn them at 12x by selecting it in CloneCD.

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

Found on CloneCD homepage http://www.elby.de/CloneCD/english/ under Bugs&limitations:

CloneCD allows you to select a faster write speed than the drive allows. This is not really a bug, it is just a cosmetic glitch. If you select 6x speed with a 2x writer, it will simply write 2x.

 

[Viperoni]

Time it and find out
I'm timing all of my burns and gonna make a chart of it one day

 

[MC]

No you don't. No matter how fast the speed you select...it's won't run faster than it meant to be.
Time it and you will know.