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RSI

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Do you leave your computer, or keeping working on it like nothing? I just keep doing whatever I was doing on the computer... I remember the old days when burners were new, and people were paranoid to touch the mouse while it was burning, in fear that it would spit out the CD and slice them open, or something. Or perhaps running on 16MB ram wasn't enough to multitask :p

I dunno about you, but there isn't really one single operation that I do on my computer that can lag other things on the system.. like if you run UT, or any game, and minimize it.. it doesn't (or shouldn't at least) lag... burning a CD doesn't make it lag, running photoshop doesn't make it lag. Obviously things like IE and messengers don't lag it up. Of course if you have everything possible open at once maybe that'll do it .. but honestly who really uses their computer to the point where it even lags at all? Oh yeah and how much ram is that with :p I only have 256 here, and will probably go up to 512 ddr whenever.. but I'm not rushed, since it's fast like this. :) Only thing for me is playing 3d games with a Stealth III S540 in win2k.. doesn't quite work right ;) But otherwise, yeah..

So what do YOU do while burning a CD?

-RSI
 
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jmw8se

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Play Counterstrike. On the same computer. What do I do when I die in Counterstrike while burning a CD? Guess...
 
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RSI

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I have another question.

When you're burning an audio CD (as in audio format, not MP3 or OGG, etc), what CDs to you use to burn, and how many songs do you typically fit? I'm averaging 23 songs per 700MB Maxell cd, and I think that's pretty great considering all of my regular music CDs are 10-17 or 18 songs. Do you use 650MB and put less songs, is it more reliable/better in any way?

Oh and also do you prefer the 1/2 size cases, or regular cases... or the ones that are circular thingies..

-RSI
 
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<< Play Counterstrike. On the same computer. What do I do when I die in Counterstrike while burning a CD? Guess... >>

You die in real life? ;)

-RSI
 
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Looney

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like if you run UT, or any game, and minimize it.. it doesn't (or shouldn't at least) lag... burning a CD doesn't make it lag, running photoshop doesn't make it lag

Hmmm do you know what lag is? It has nothing do with your how much resources or lack of that your computer has, but your internet connection and congestion.
 
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RSI

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<< like if you run UT, or any game, and minimize it.. it doesn't (or shouldn't at least) lag... burning a CD doesn't make it lag, running photoshop doesn't make it lag

Hmmm do you know what lag is? It has nothing do with your how much resources or lack of that your computer has, but your internet connection and congestion. >>

Well, considering I'm using the word "Lag" as a slack, slang term, not in its specific technical sense... why did you post that? Or did you not know that "its lagging!" can be used as an expression?

-RSI

PS: GTG to school. Argue later.
 
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I just keep on doing whatever I was doing. I burn my CD's in Linux, and I haven't got a bad burn yet.
 
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<< I have another question.

When you're burning an audio CD (as in audio format, not MP3 or OGG, etc), what CDs to you use to burn, and how many songs do you typically fit? I'm averaging 23 songs per 700MB Maxell cd, and I think that's pretty great considering all of my regular music CDs are 10-17 or 18 songs. Do you use 650MB and put less songs, is it more reliable/better in any way?

Oh and also do you prefer the 1/2 size cases, or regular cases... or the ones that are circular thingies..

-RSI >>



I can't tell you how many songs you can fit on it, because I don't know the typical length of the song. The easy answer is you can fit 80min worth of sound on it.
 
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jmw8se

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How many songs I can fit on an audio CD depends on the quality (as in musical) of the songs i'm burning. Everybody knows that as the length of a song increases, you get a better song. This is proven by the fact that Stairway To Heaven is 8 minutes long and <insert pop crap here> is 2 minutes long
 
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Electrode

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1.7 GB RAM, dual P3 667s, and a burner with anti-coaster abilities. I play whatever game I'm in to at the time. :)
 
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I used to play UT while burning a cd with my 6x burner. Now I've got a 12x and she doesn't like me very much when I burn a cd and play UT at 12.

A cd only takes 8min to burn. I can do without UT for 8 min :)
 
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Thegonagle

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With an 8X SCSI, Windows 2000 and 512 MB of Ram, I just keep going like it's nothing special. I've only had 1 buffer under run ever with this SCSI burner, but that was waaaay back when I was running 98 with only 64 MB.

P.S. I think SCSI rocks!
 
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Interesting question. I have noticed that if I do nothing else while burning a CD, I get a perfect burn 99.9% of the time. But if I do anything else except light surfing (no downloads) I do get the occasional coaster. I have a 1GHz processor and 512mb of system ram...I should be able to do whatever I want...but I can't/don't for fear of coasters. I have an Imation 12x burner, FYI.
 
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CraigRT

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I usually surf when I am burning a CD.. since my burner at work has buffer underrun I am not all that worried, although the goal is to not have to use the protection, It's there just incase :)

It DOES lag my computer though just using IE and even ICQ, it makes everything go much slower, since the burner is burning data at 2400K/sec (16X burner) it is pretty obvious some slow downs will occur, and they do in my case.. even with Win2k, T-Bird 900, 384 RAM @ 133, etc..

but I haven't had any coasters so it's not too bad...

 
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Sugadaddy

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I do other stuff, that's what burn-proof is for. I think in over 200 CDs, I only got 1 coaster, and it was because of a bad MP3 that Nero couldn't convert properly.


Plextor rocks.
 
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Jerboy

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If you let BURN-Proof kick on constantly, you'll slow down both the task you're doing and the recording. I can wait five min to let the burning finish :D
 
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<< If you let BURN-Proof kick on constantly, you'll slow down both the task you're doing and the recording. I can wait five min to let the burning finish :D >>




It very rarely kicks in. You have to really do it on purpose, like start Photoshop and a game at the same time, and even then, it doesn't always empty the buffer. I noticed Nero 5.5 uses A LOT of ram while burning, so I guess it makes its own buffer.
 
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Jerboy

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<< If you let BURN-Proof kick on constantly, you'll slow down both the task you're doing and the recording. I can wait five min to let the burning finish :D >>




It very rarely kicks in. You have to really do it on purpose, like start Photoshop and a game at the same time, and even then, it doesn't always empty the buffer. I noticed Nero 5.5 uses A LOT of ram while burning, so I guess it makes its own buffer. >>



Yes Nero steals as much RAM as it can get away with. Something like 300MB. For me it only takes starting Netscape 4.7 to cause BURN-Proof® to kick on.


wepopfresh wrote:



<< I use SCSI so i do whatever i want. >>



yeah SCSI is nice, but unfortunately Plextor only makes it up to 12x. I would happily use SCSI burner if Plextor offers 24x or 16x SCSI writer. And yes it better be Plextor, otherwise I'll keep on using my 16X ATAPI Plextor.




 
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