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darren700
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_ 		16. September 2003 @ 15:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have a rather old computer which is a pII 350mhz, 16mb voodoo banshee videocard, 256mb of ram, 80 gb hard drive, and windows xp pro... i was wondering why does it say on most of the dvd burner boxes that you must have a 800mhz or faster computer? is that just to play movies? i was thinkin of getting a pioneer ao5 or an ao6, has anyone had success is running a dvd burner on a slower machine? (my buddy said i would get errors because the comp cant keep up, is this true)?????
thanks much for any help
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karatone
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_ 		22. September 2003 @ 11:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you can afford a Burner, you should try fitting a new pc into your budget. Personally I wouldn't try using a recorder with a small pc like your current set-up.I really don't think that the big companies are trying to trick you into buying a new system. If you do try running this current pc you may end up having wasted money on bad burns or faulty recordings ,and with enough of this happening could quickly add up wasting precious $$ you could have used to upgrade. good luck!
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koola
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_ 		22. September 2003 @ 12:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yep, doctor sez you need a new PC with all those shiny bits and bobs.
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73_mg
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_ 		22. September 2003 @ 13:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have my Sony DVD Burner in a PII 450 and it works great. I'm running XP,256Megs of ram, and a 40 gig hard drive.
I use DVDXcopy and Xcopyexpress. Somtimes DVD2One if I have to. I've burned at least 250 DVDs so far with no problems or wasted DVDs. (Unless it was operator error.) It can be done. I do it all the time. Needless to say I do no multi-tasking while its running.
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Nephilim
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_ 		23. September 2003 @ 21:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Kind of a crapshoot. If you try it be sure to shut off everything running in the background to give maximum resources to the burn process.
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