When I'm burning DVD's. I tend to use Excel, Word, Surf and also print out documents (pics and text)
I've on more than 1 occasion ripped from one drive to the hard drive, used DVD Shrink on DVD files and burned to the DVD writer with Instantcopy, all at the same time.
I won't edit music or watch DVD's while burning or ripping or shrink as they seem to freeze up other applications. And I definately won't capture Video.
The hottest I've seen my PC run at was 49degC
here's my setup (dual monitor or monitor and TV)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 P4 800Mhz FSB
Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.8GHz [800MHz] 512Kcache
Fan: ThermalTake Silent Viking Fan for P3 up to 3Ghz
Case: Antec Sonata/ Minitower, 380W, 4x5.25 ", 2x3.5", ATX, Black
RAM: 512Mb DDR Ram (2 x 256MB DDR PC3200, 400Mhz, Dual Channel, 184-pin DIMM [Crucial])
Graphics Card: Gainward GeForce FX 5600 256MB DDR 5ns,AGP, "Ultra/780TV-DVI",Tv-Out
Hard Drive: 10Gb 7200rpm HD (Operating System Only)
Expansion Card: Maxtor Ultra ATA 133 PCI Card
=> Maxtor IDE ATA-133 200GB 7200RPM 8MB - DiamondMax Plus 9 8 MB cache
DVD Writer: Sony DRU-500AX DVD+-R/RW Internal (DVD-R/-RW, DVD+RW/+R and CD-R/CD-RW)
DVD Drive: Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1202
Soundcard: Creative Audigy 2
Speakers: Creative Inspire 6.1 6700, speakers
Trust, 5 button, cordless, optical, rechargeable Mouse
HP extended Keyboard
ASDL Broadband
17" Dell Monitor
17" GoldStar Monitor or Philips 24 inch TV
Win 2K (Service Pack 4)
i multitask on a very low level... for example - if you get this site up first then start burning you wont have much problem but loading the 20 megs of bloat (i use IE) while a disk is burning just slows the process down and asks for trouble...
its not like the old days when you wrote CDs at single speed and looking at the PC crashed it and caused a very expensive coaster! (man how much has media come down over the last 10 years!)
Hi Frank! sorry about being so slow to post a reply it was not meant to be a diss. Yeah I run mine at 3.2. The reason that I do is more for the bus speed 228mhz. Sis sandra is a free program that you can bench with. My memory scores begin to get a pretty good boost(~5.7MB/s) at that speed along with my cpu scores. I just get more cpu/memory for less by overclocking. This is the fastest that I can run mine on stock air without getting concerned about the temps over time. I have had mine to 250fsb@1:1 and as high as 280fsb@5:4 not bad for value ram at the rated 2.6V. The IC7 is a notoriously good overclocker as are most of the P4's. There are a few lemons floating around and alot of people say that the new D0 stepping is the best, I think its just the luck of the draw. When I say that I multitask during a rip/shrink/burn it is always light weight stuff involving low memory/cpu usage. I agree with most here it's definetly best to just leave it alone, but I just had to try when I built this rig.
There is nothing wrong with pushing things to their limit as long as you are aware of the consequences. Hehe! I can see you know PCs like I know bikes. I'm a clueless newbie when it comes to the mods you are talking about. Well not as clueless as I used to be, at least I know what OC means!
I saw another dual xeon being bench tested at the shop that put my machine together. This thing had the 3.4 gig xeons, 4gigs of RAM the raid 0 configuration and watercooled. had some sort of four fan heat exchanger on top of it. The RAM, Video card, CPUs and probably some other stuff I couldn't see were all water cooled.
After that I went on line and saw some guy who does nothng but try for high benchmarks. His PC looked like a refrigerator that had exploded and then the guts of a couple computers thrown in on top of it. Had a bunch of multimeters hooked into it to monitor the temperatures and voltages. Fun stuff! I forget what his benchmark was but I think it may have been an Aquamark of 13,000 or something like that. Really high to say the least.
