Hello: Can anyone advice me if I can have a Dvd burner on my Dell P3 -450 running Win98 with full Ram ? Thanks.

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I would think so. I think a DVD burner is the same as a normal CD writer, its the 
software that burns it. Nero will burn DVD's with a writable DVD CD.

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The biggest problem you will run into is the speed of your CPU and buss.  You may 
not get much above 2x for burning on a DVD.  Example:

I have three Asus P2B-DS motherboards with dual P3 1gig cpu's on each with 1 gig 
of RAM running overclocked by 3%, and running XP.

The burner is a Mad Dog USB2 16X DVDR running on a USB 2.0 adaptec card.  The fastest 
burn speed I can get is 4X on DVDR without the burner having to wait on data.  At 
6X burn speed, it starts to wait which actually slows down the overall burn time. 
 Anything higher and the burner is always waiting on data.  Performance on the IDE 
interface was actually slower with the same burner.

So in your situation, you will be minus a CPU and almost one third the CPU speed 
so you will probably not get good performance for DVD burning.  CDR will be better, 
but don't expect full speed burning.  Maybe half of what the media is rated for on 
CDR, which is better anyway for data stability/archiving..

Just remember that DVD burning is many times more data being transfered than for 
CD burning, so you need a much faster machine if you want better performance and 
less chance of a bad burn, even with the protection built into the burners today..








On Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 5:33 am, Charles wrote:

>Hello:

>

>Can anyone advice me if I can have a Dvd burner on my 

>Dell P3 -450 running Win98 with full  Ram ? Thanks. 

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Absolutely, positively! I have 2 DVD drives currently. I just dumped my CD & Zip 2 days ago. Both my DVD/CD burner and DVD/CD reader work just fine. I burn with any one of several burning programs, Nero being the most used. My next mo-chine will have just one drive, probably a dual layer DVD, but there are "issues" with that format I must work out (I like to burn labels on my disks).

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